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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption for businesses and individuals around the globe. Our content focuses on its impact on the legal industry, including law firms, the court system, in-house counsel, tech companies and law schools.
By Alex D'Elia | December 14, 2023
Pfizer and BioNTech have sued the Polish and Hungarian governments over COVID-19 vaccine orders.
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By Christopher Niesche | October 25, 2023
Carnival was negligent and deceptive, Australia's Federal Court finds.
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By Anne Bagamery | May 18, 2023
The cases reflect the continuing realignment of air travel players in Europe amid the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By Michael A. Mora and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | April 7, 2023
Former Hunton Andrews Kurth partner Jerry Li is now a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Beijing.
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By Amy Guthrie | April 6, 2023
Creditors who offered a brief respite to Brazilian companies during the pandemic are now coming to collect as the country struggles with high inflation and double-digit interest rates.
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By Andrew Maloney | Patrick Smith | Hank Grezlak | January 30, 2023
As law firms are pushing lawyers and staff to return to offices, constant stress, triggered by the pandemic and other events, has changed people and the legal workplace.
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By Law.com International | September 22, 2022
Watch our global correspondents and editors review the recent performance of the world's biggest law firms, discuss major trends in international legal markets and talk about what they think we will see in the coming year.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | September 16, 2022
Clifford Chance's global head of diversity & inclusion, Tiernan Brady and recently-appointed UK head, Nina Goswami, talk through previous failures in the D&I world and where to go next.
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By Gail J. Cohen | August 11, 2022
George Strathy, the chief justice of Canada's largest court system, is urging law firm leaders to help combat stress and anxiety in the legal profession. Law firms are listening.
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By Paul Hodkinson | July 19, 2022
The move sent 'shockwaves' as it could mean insurers try to avoid lawsuits by ending professional indemnity cover for law firms advising claimants.
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By Colleen Murphy | April 24, 2024
"Indeed, the judge's opinion was silent as to Susana's direct claim against the Bergen defendants," the opinion said. "Instead, the judge focused on Alfredo's allegation the Palisades defendants compelled him to 'reuse masks and gowns' and whether Susana could prove her injuries were proximately caused thereby. In the absence of an analysis of Susana's allegations, we are unable to engage in meaningful review."
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By Ross Todd | April 12, 2024
Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg represented a company that claimed Walmart backed out of a deal struck during the pandemic to get into the business-to-business market for disposable nitrile gloves when demand for PPE cooled.
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By Avalon Zoppo | March 27, 2024
A Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure should be tweaked to allow trial judges to conduct pretrial criminal hearings over video conference if the defendant consents, U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig wrote.
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By Brian Lee | March 15, 2024
The report notes that the $3.4 billion court system had its third consecutive year of a rise in cases filed statewide.
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By Daniel Y. Gielchinsky | March 15, 2024
Just two months after the suspension of in-person jury trials, the court authorized the Remote Civil Jury Trial Pilot Program, through which trials are conducted via a videoconferencing platform "to establish the framework and identify the logistics of trying a case remotely."
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By Colleen Murphy | March 11, 2024
"Despite the lessons of the last four years, New Jersey remains underprepared for the next emergency," the report said. "We owe it to those who lost their lives, and the families who suffered, as well as the heroic state workers and healthcare professionals."
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By Allison Dunn | March 7, 2024
"This case is an outlier, one arising from the rare occurrence of a worldwide pandemic. It appears that the majority reached its conclusions on jurisdiction because this is one of those unicorns. Its holding should not be universally applied. Otherwise, egregious situations caused by the state would go unchecked, despite the existence of specific statutes by which the state waives sovereign immunity," Justice Jennifer Brunner wrote in a dissenting opinion.
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By Ross Todd | March 6, 2024
Among last year's settlements, the median time from when a case was filed to a settlement hearing date was 3.7 years, the second-highest for any year in Cornerstone Research records going back to 1996.
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By Cheryl Miller | March 5, 2024
During oral arguments, the justices asked repeatedly why COVID-19 business losses should be covered by commercial property insurance policies.
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By Riley Brennan | March 1, 2024
"Even if Plaintiffs could show injury in fact, they cannot carry their burden to establish traceability. Article III requires a showing of 'a causal connection between the injury and the conduct complained of—the injury has to be fairly traceable to the challenged action of the defendant, and not the result of the independent action of some third party not before the court,'" Judge Ralph R. Erickson said.
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