Although Change Is Inevitable, Some Basics Remain Timeless

With communication avenues evolving and remote options only increasing, we certainly aren't going back to the "good old days" of all-hands page flips and in-person closings. Combine that with Fax Rooms and FedEx deadlines, while certainly "old," were those days even "good"? Arguably, no – traveling across the continent to closings lugging file briefcases while worried that your documents (on disk) might be destroyed by airport metal detectors isn't something I want to go back to.

Don't worry. This isn't a collection of "Back in my day, I walked to the courthouse uphill, both ways – in the snow" stories. I'm not interested in going back to the "good old days." However, that isn't to say that there weren't some positives from those days that we should try and salvage or recreate that may make our jobs easier and even provide a smile later in our careers.