The Shift to Remote Legal Practice Virtual legal practice is no longer a temporary adjustment—it is a lasting shift in how law is practiced. While remote work offers convenience and flexibility, it also introduces complex ethical and legal challenges. We address some of those below. Unauthorized P...
In 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession we coauthored Contract Enforceability During Economic Crisis: Legal Principles and Drafting Solutions [i] (“Article”).The broad thesis of the Article was that the “law” would rarely provide relief to a contracting party adversely affected by fundame...
This article has been published in the PLI Chronicle: Insights and Perspectives for the Legal Community, https://plus.pli.edu. While the “new normal” may be a cliché, it does highlight the fact that Covid-19 has dramatically affected the legal profession and that many of these effects are lik...
This is the fourth of a series of blogs dealing with possible ethics and malpractice implications of Covid19 (see here, here, and here for the previous blogs). This pandemic is potentially triggering an increased exposure to ethics complaints and malpractice. Here we deal with financial instabilit...
It is common knowledge that the practice of law is not the profession that you choose if you want to have a good work/life balance. In a program organized by the ABA, What Women Want: Strategies for Law Practice Leaders (now on demand on the ABA website), the speakers reported a statistic: At law ...
This is the second blog a series dedicated to the ethical and malpractice implications of the covid19 crisis for lawyers. In the first blog we dealt with some of the ethical and malpractice issues deriving from working from home under the duties of confidentiality, competence, and supervision. We de...
The implications of the covid19 crisis are already imposing. It is expected that the situation will get worst before getting better. Law firms are no exception. Working under the lockdown is certainly causing disruption to the usual way in which lawyers practice law; it also has ethical implications...
In 2009 in the wake of the Great Recession we coauthored Contract Enforceability During Economic Crisis: Legal Principles and Drafting Solutions [i] (“Article”). The broad thesis of the Article was that the “law” would rarely provide relief to a contracting party adversely affected by...
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