Ten Things I LOVE About Zoom … a Rebuttal BY NANCY CHAUSOW-SHAFER 1. Savings of time – The most expensive and rare While waiting for my Zoom court appearance, I can work thing we have is time. Once spent, we can never get it back. on other matters at my ‘desk’ in another window on my Zoom allows us to avoid travel time to various court dates screen. I can check emails, return phone calls, review, and and meetings, returning that time to the ‘bank’ to be spent edit documents, while waiting patiently for my turn. On doing things we love rather than spending time in transit. most days, it doesn’t really matter to me how long it takes 2. Savings of money – Not only do I not have to spend the judge to get to my case. Since I am forced to wait, I time traveling back and forth to meetings and court dates, may as well get work done while I sit there. This has been but I am saving on the expenses of getting there and back. great for my productivity. My gas and other car expenses have been reduced signifi5. Reduction of business clothing expenses – In cantly, even driving a hybrid vehicle. In 2020 and 2021, I the ‘before time,’ one daily struggle was what to wear to only filled my gas tank 4 or 5 times total. Also, I had no auto court. I had several suits, and if I was on trial, I needed to repair and maintenance expenses in the last 2 years. carefully consider the wardrobe choices ahead of time so 3. Reduction of client costs – In the interests of I was not caught short and have to repeat the same outfit. “Access to Justice,” having court and bar Horrors). Now with Zoom, no one is meetings remotely eliminates costs to focusing on my wardrobe, and I only Nancy Chauthe client in terms of both time and exhave to look professional in the Zoom sow Shafer is a penses (such as parking). An in-person window (usually only chest up). Good principal in the Highland Park court appearance for status downtown thing, as the ”COVID 19 lbs” is a real IL firm, Sage at the Daley Center may require an thing, and pants with buttons, snaps Counsel, LLC, hour of travel time each way, parking and zippers have been relegated to the concentrating in fees, time spent in the courtroom waitcharity donation box. Matrimonial Law, ing for my client’s case to be called, all 6. Savings on shoes and boots including Litigation, Mediation for only 5 minutes in front of the judge. – since we started with Zoom court inand Collaboration. A focus of her On Zoom, I can login and have my 5 stead of in-person, I barely wear shoes energies is to increase the education minutes with the Court and only spend at all, and if I am not going outside, I of professionals and the public on and charge that amount of time to the don’t need boots and trudging through options for the divorce process and client. the snow or sliding on ice. Shoes are wise (sage) financial decisions. 4. No (or less?) wasted time unnecessary for a Zoom appearance,
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