“Google announced in July that its roughly 200,000 employees will continue to work from home until at least next summer. Mark Zuckerberg has said he expects half of Facebook’s workforce to be remote within the decade. Twitter has told staff they can stay home permanently.”

Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz write in the Harvard Business Review, “To know what’s ‘best’ for your organization’s future when it comes to remote work, you have to put it in the context of all the things that you are looking to achieve. In other words, you have to have a conscious aspiration. Then you need to envision the “workforce system” that will make those things possible.”

Nicole Black writes, “Over the past few months, I’ve witnessed an unprecedented change in mindset by lawyers when it comes to technology. For starters, lawyers in my community have begun to accept certain types of technologies — such as videoconferencing, e-signature, virtual notaries, and cloud computing remote working tools — with open arms.”

A group of so-called “virtual” law firms say they are seeing a surge in interest from those in Big Law who are fed up with financial agreements they feel shifting under their feet as firms weather a crisis.

NPR Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep interviews Alexander Urbelis, a hacker-turned-information-security lawyer who founded the New York-based Blackstone Law Group, about “the designs of such attacks and some best cybersecurity practices people should use to defend themselves against hackers.”

Writing for CNBC, Eric Rosenbaum finds that “The risks caused by the coronavirus are rising beyond public health, job losses and economic spirals. Cyberthreats, including phishing scams and spam, are spiking as online criminals take advantage of the coronavirus to attack remote workforces and corporate systems, and tech vendors, such as SaaS providers, are less able to respond in the current situation.”

Here’s a roundup of how the country’s top law firms are handling the coronavirus pandemic. This list will be updated regularly. Most firms are encouraging remote work, and some require it.

“In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the global legal services provider Integreon said today that it has taken steps to enhance the ability of its employees working from home or other remote environments to provide their services securely, including a partnership with SecureReview, a company that provides a secure infrastructure for remote workers,” writes Bob Ambrogi on the LawSites blog.

As remote work becomes the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, hackers attack unsecured home computers. “There is increasing evidence that hackers are using the concerns over the virus to prey on individuals and that working outside secure office environments opens the door to more cyber vulnerabilities,” writes Maggie Miller.