A new report illustrates the challenges faced by government law agencies, especially around issues like employee hiring & retention and adopting needed technology
For many government law agencies and for the legal professionals at other government departments, the past few years have been a bit of a bumpy ride. As agencies, and departments — like many institutions and corporations all over the world — had to scramble to find new ways of doing business during the global pandemic and its resulting lockdowns.
For public legal departments — like the offices of district attorneys, public defenders, or city and county attorneys — that meant holding online meetings and virtual hearings. Beyond that, it meant that much more work was being done remotely using technology that may have been new to many government agency leaders. And now, as the worst of the pandemic ebbs in many regions of the country and the rest of the world, government agency law departments have had to adapt to the new reality again, deciding which innovations to keep and which to jettison in favor of more traditional ways of conducting business.
To examine these developments further, the Thomson Reuters Institute has published the new 2023 Government Law Agency Report, which summarize the findings of recent Government Trends Survey, conducted in 2022 by Thomson Reuters’ Market Research and Competitive Insights team with attorneys in public agencies at the Federal, State, and County/Municipal level. The...
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