As litigators across the region are seeing firsthand, local civil courts are assigning in-person trial dates at a rapid clip, attempting to make up for almost two years of sparse jury trials thanks to COVID-19. At the same time, local criminal courts have been focused on working through their own case inventories that have piled up because of the pandemic.

Justice delayed is justice denied, so I am sure my colleagues across the bar, no matter which side of the aisle they are on, are happy to see in-person jury trials return so their clients can resolve the legal uncertainty they face. Although remote jury trials took place during the pandemic, news reports suggested jurors were unlikely to be as engaged during remote trials as they would have been if they were in the jury box inside a courtroom.