Covid-19 resources – Crystal & Giannoni-Crystal

Published On - October 3, 2021

Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Covid-19 resources, Tidbits of ethics

Long-Lasting Covid Changes – Virtual Practice is Here to Stay

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...

Published On - January 3, 2021

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Mandating COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Workplace – Legal Considerations

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...

Published On - October 21, 2020

Stewart Banner Corporate and Business Law, Covid-19 resources

Working Remotely and Protecting Trade Secrets

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...

Published On - October 1, 2020

Nathan M. Crystal Covid-19 resources, Tidbits of ethics

Unauthorized practice of law and Covid19 – change is in the air

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...

Published On - August 2, 2020

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COVID-19 – Temporary Practice in DC

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 &#...

Published On - May 22, 2020

Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Covid-19 resources, Tidbits of ethics

Some ethical, malpractice and professional implications of Covid19 crisis for lawyers. Part IV: financial instability during or after the pandemic

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...

Published On - May 7, 2020

Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Covid-19 resources, Tidbits of ethics

Some ethical (and malpractice) implications of Covid19 crisis for lawyers. Part III: Family obligations during the pandemic

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 ...

Published On - May 1, 2020

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Published On - April 13, 2020

Nathan Crystal and Francesca Giannoni-Crystal Bridging Common Law & Civil Law, Covid-19 resources

Contractual Enforceability During the Coronavirus Crisis

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...