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By Lee Hall & Kile Turner
If you work where you live all day and all night, the only respite is to bring your life to your work, and so with a stroke of a keyboard, then President Mike Glascott initiated FedLIFE in March 2020. FedLIFE was initially formed to address the mental health and emotional needs of FDCC members last spring when, in a span of days, members were forced to create home offices for themselves and their firms, acquire technology
Lee Hall
Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC in Huntington, WV
Kile Turner Norman, Wood, Kendrick & Turner Birmingham, AL
of indefinite duration. Suffice it to say that the mood was dark and members were worried.
But instead of retreating into self- preservation, FDCC members leaned in to form a 1,500-person support network that functioned on a personal, practice, and firm level. Senior members shared their contingency plans for firm management and survival. Bob Christie taught crash courses in
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FEDLIFE: HELPING US ALL TAKE A COLLECTIVE BREATH
skills, learn administrative and secretarial skills, and master the finer points of home schooling, all while reassuring clients and staff in the face of a raging national health crises and supply shortages
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