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Posted: December 28, 2021
2021 Year in Review: Joseph Most, Berdon LLP
Name: Joseph Most, JD
Job Title: Principal
Company Name: Berdon LLP
What was the biggest lesson you learned while working during the pandemic?
How resilient we can all be and how strong the ability to adapt is. Pre-pandemic, if you had asked me whether Berdon would be able to shift to remote working I would have been skeptical at best. However, COVID-19 did not present us with another option and in an incredible display of resiliency I feel like our firm has not missed a beat and went through a seamless transition. I was equally impressed with the similar transitions of our clients. No matter the steps that we made internally, to get the job done it needed to be a two-way street, and that is what I have observed to have occurred.
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