COVID-19 - Here for you
Well, friends, these are unprecedented times. How many times have you heard this statement in the last few weeks, days, hours, minutes, moments?
We have all experienced a serious amount of change in our lives lately, in order to fulfill our responsibility to level the spread of the COVID-19 virus that we’ve learned so much about by now.
The stress and anxiety that has followed these changes is not lost on us. The worry of unemployment. The management of online learning for our children. The adjustment to working from home. The panic of not knowing if essential items like toilet paper and protein will be available for our families, and then the worry that there won’t be the money to buy these items if the economy were to continue to plummet. The boredom, and claustrophobia of quarantine. Or, for many, the understandable worry that we, or our beloveds, will contract COVID-19 and not come back from it.
Many of us are having these thoughts and worries, and here at RCG we want to say, we hear you, and we are here for you. Much like the guidance we provide to our family law and estate planning clients every day, we remind ourselves, the sun will set on the other side, we will get through this as a society, holding hands (virtually), and we will do it with grace and dignity.
As a law firm, and as mothers, family members, friends and community members, we feel we have a role to play in helping us all through this, dare we say it again only because it has never been a better use of the word, unprecedented, time. We are coming together as a firm for all of you. See how below.
1. We are here to prevent. We’ve taken measures to do “our part” to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and comply with government calls to action, while also fulfilling the needs of our clients that are already in a time of need. For as long as necessary and/or beneficial to the general public and our clients, RCG is:
a. Adhering to the Minnesota Judicial Branch Order linked here, including not making any unnecessary visits to courthouses statewide and respecting the Court’s postponement of cases deemed not “super high priority” or “high priority”;
b. We are continuing business at full capacity, and to the extent possible, conducting all communications and meetings virtually when feasible;
c. We are taking precautions at work and in our personal lives to limit and/or eliminate contact in any way that could expose any of our attorneys to COVID-19 and risk spread to our clients, colleagues and the public.
2. We are here to give. We became attorneys because we want to help people. That extends here, now. Each week we are committing to donating food to our food shelves, giving blood, donating to local businesses and charities, etc. to help provide resources to our community that needs these resources desperately right now. We will share these moments with you on our social media platforms, in hopes that it will ignite others to do the same.
3. We are here to help. We are extending free family law, will, trust and other estate planning consultations to anyone in Minnesota that has legal questions or concerns, potentially about the legal ramifications of COVID-19, at this time and wants to speak with an experienced attorney about them.
4. We are here to inform/entertain. In the upcoming days and weeks, we will be sharing some insights and conversations about challenges, innovations and nuanced legal issues that have arisen amidst the current environment in response to COVID-19. We hope you’ll find this information interesting or even helpful, and if not, at the very least, it will give you something new to read for about 5 minutes of your day. You will thank us on this— I’m not sure how many more videos of watching Ellen DeGeneres (although beloved) “literally” solve a puzzle on her social media device this week we can take. We are all desperate for some variety.
We hope you will all hang in there with us. We have never meant it more when we say, wishing you all well wishes of health and happiness.
