Houston-based technology providers as well as law firms both large and small with offices in the region appear to have been largely able to keep operations going as flood waters crippled much of the city.
Despite Hurricane Harvey, law offices and legal sector businesses used remote operations and advanced technology, though many of their employees could not temporarily reach downtown offices.
Related: 7 tips to speed business insurance recoveries from Hurricane Harvey
|Prepared ahead of time
It was essential, they said, that the businesses and firms prepared ahead of time. For example, Tracee Whitley, Norton Rose Fulbright's U.S. chief of operations, says that "days ahead of the storm, we asked our Houston-based … personnel to take home their assigned laptops and confirm remote connectivity to avoid last-minute support issues."
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