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...
As if employers did not have enough challenges due to the global pandemic that has continued to decimate most of the world as we start a new year, business owners and corporate executives face another set of decisions concerning whether to require employees to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination. The fast...
As we continue working remotely during and even after the pandemic, companies and their employees must rely on communications platforms such as WebEx, Zoom, and Google Meet to conduct business. In many instances, call participants discuss trade secrets or other confidential information, which may no...
Consider the situation of a lawyer who works at home from a jurisdiction different from the jurisdiction in which the lawyer is admitted to practice. This might occur because the lawyer is now working at home because of Covid19, or the lawyer is a part-time employee working virtually for a law firm...
In OPINION 24-20 (“Teleworking from Home and the COVID-19 Pandemic”),the D.C. Court of Appeals Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law (DC UPL Committee) decided that out-of-state lawyers can practice while physically present there due to COVID19. The DC UPL Committee opined that &#...
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 ...
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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