By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter
The Coronavirus threatens public health. It has shutdown businesses and travel rocking the economy and threatening jobs and livelihoods.
It is also an opportunity of the community (including the business community) to show compassion and empathy, to help small businesses and lift workers in need.
“We are going to recognize how to be more compassionate and kind,” said Jim Belfiore, President of Belfiore Real Estate Consulting in Phoenix.
Belfiore was on the panel of Rose Law Group’s New Virtual Power Lunch Friday. The virtual events will be held weekly from Noon to 1 giving business insight into how to the navigate these unprecedented times.
Kaine Fisher, a Partner with Rose Law Group and Director of the firm’s Family Law Practice, also sees the pandemic as an opportunity to focus on family and loved ones as well as for compassion and kindness.
That includes for blended and divorced families and focusing on cooperation when the pandemic impacts health and jobs.
“Give them make up time after this thing is over,” Fisher said if the pandemic’s impacts affect custody arrangements. He is one of the top family law attorneys in Arizona.
Craig DeMarco, a partner with the Upward Projects (the restaurant company behind popular concept such as Postino, Federal Pizza and Joyride Tacos), said he serving as a resource for smaller restaurant owners fighting for survival during the pandemic.
“I’ve been fielding a lot of calls,” said DeMarco adding that Upward Projects is working with Fox Restaurant Concepts (i.e. Culinary Dropout, Zinburger, Olive & Ivy) to help restaurant workers hurt by the COVID-19 and its fallout.
