When David Carthy Zoom calls me, it is from his holiday home in Waterford. It turns out he is not on annual leave. Instead, he has locked himself away in a room to work full-time while the rest of his family gets on with enjoying a staycation in the not so sunny south east. The perks of remote working. “I swapped one rainy location for another rainy location,” he jokes. Back in Dublin, DLA Piper’s offices at Stephen Court (which used to house Anglo Irish Bank headquarters) have remained empty for the most part since the government began introducing lockdown…

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