Why ‘wearing many hats’ in 2021 looks different By Jerome Doraisamy|14 January 2021 The need for boutique lawyers to wear many hats has taken on a different meaning in the age of coronavirus. Looking ahead, how such practitioners manage the juggle will be vastly different to pre-pandemic days. For Sweetlove Family Law principal Megan Sweetlove – who is a law firm owner, student, wife, mother and introvert all at once – the idea of wearing many hats has “been a familiar tale for a number of years”. “2020 in many respects made the juggle a little easier and forced a change in perspective I have been craving,” the Adelaide-based lawyer told Lawyers Weekly.