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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 Robert Storace | August 18, 2020
Short civil jury selection and trials are slated to resume in the state's three federal courthouses beginning next month, according to U.S. District Chief Judge Stefan Underhill of the District of Connecticut.
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By Tom McParland | August 18, 2020
The new rule, which entered the planning stages before the pandemic's onset, allows attorneys to request permission to appear remotely on a showing of good cause.
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By Jacqueline Thomsen | August 18, 2020
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson led a lawsuit against changes to the U.S. Postal Service hours after the postmaster general promised to back off reforms until after the November election, when many Americans are expected to vote by mail.
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By Dan Clark | August 18, 2020
"When COVID-19 hit, there were overnight state and local ordinances and regulations that companies had to comply with," Gillian Cooper, an associate at Saul, Ewing, Arnstein & Lehr in Philadelphia, explained. "It affected every area of the employee population."
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By Charles Toutant | August 18, 2020
"Defendants have presented conceivable justification that keeping movie theaters closed while opening churches, shopping malls, and libraries is rationally related to the goal of stopping the transmission of COVID-19," the judge said. Davis White Tremaine represented the National Association of Theater Owners, which did not respond to a request for comment. The state was represented by Daniel Vannella of the Attorney General's Office, which did not respond to a request for comment.
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By Patrick Smith | August 18, 2020
While there are some parallels, the pandemic is different, and less dangerous, to the future of Big Law associates, industry experts say.
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By Karen Sloan | August 18, 2020
Lawmakers, recent law graduates and legal academics made the case for New York to adopt an emergency diploma privilege during a nearly two-hour virtual roundtable discussion Tuesday about the state's plan to give a online bar exam in October.
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By Karen Sloan | August 18, 2020
In the first installment of the new Law.com series "Law in the Time of COVID: How Are You Making It Work (From Home)?" University of California, Irvine School of Law Dean L. Song Richardson shares how she spends a typical day working from home, and how she finds time to unwind when home and work have merged.
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By Nicholas C. Rueter, Kevin George and Bisi Adeyemo | August 18, 2020
Laws have changed at an unprecedented rate during the crisis, and with the attention of business owners and executives focused primarily on financial health, many businesses have found themselves, knowingly or not, in non-compliance with laws and the terms of their own contracts.
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By Michael A. Mora | August 18, 2020
These positive tests of the coronavirus come as the state has reached nearly 580,000 total cases, with almost 9,800 deaths, according to data from the Florida Department of Health.
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