Bruce Bentley

Eastern Insurance Group LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastern Bank, announced today that it has acquired the business assets of Barr Insurance Agency, Inc., a family-run, full-service insurance agency based in Watertown, MA. The transaction takes effect May 1, 2021 and marks the 34th acquisition by an independent insurance agency for Eastern Insurance since 2002. Barr Insurance has provided personal and business insurance coverage to individuals and businesses for more than 50 years. "Barr Insurance is known for offering a wide variety of coverage to both individuals and businesses, from automobiles to households to commercial lines. It has great loyalty from many longstanding customers and we look forward to welcoming them to EIG . "said John Koegel, President and CEO of Eastern Insurance Group LLC. Marianne Jenkins, President of Barr Insurance added, "Having served our valued customers for the past five decades, we are excited about the new opportunities that are...

In his groundbreaking 2013 book Tomorrow's Lawyers, legal futurist Richard Susskind predicted that technology would radically transform the legal profession over the next few decades. From the automation of routine legal tasks to the emergence of new legal service providers to the virtualization of personal proceedings, Susskind's assessments of the likely development of the legal profession have proven to be amazingly accurate. Except maybe for the slow pace of change. After Susskind established a strong business model for why the legal profession should take advantage of the wider use of technology, he couldn't have expected a global pandemic in 2020 to get the legal profession to exploit the disruptive potential of technology in to transform an everyday life into reality. The COVID-19 pandemic is a wake-up call for companies and industries that are falling behind in the digital transformation. For the legal profession, the pandemic is an opportunity to break away ...