How The Unprecedented Coronavirus Emergency Will Strip Away The Law Profession’s Illusions

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LegalBusiness editor Alex Novarese has been reporting on the law profession for a long time – but there has been nothing like the current Coronavirus crisis to confront the profession. His opinion piece is worth considering to help provide some context to the crisis, using the GFC as an ‘anchor’. The longer you do this […]

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Key Tips Every Lawyer (And Others) Working From Home NEED To Know To Keep Their Jobs and Their Sanity

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Penny Gerald* The COVID-19 crisis has driven lawyers home and we looked at key tips they need to use to make working from home more than just a pipe dream. You may have read the rules – you know the ‘keep a routine’, ‘set your boundaries’, ‘schedule breaks’ and a host of other well meaning

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What “AbovetheLaw” Founder David Lat Says About His Coronavirus Infection . . And What We Need To Do

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Lawyer David Lat has reported on legal matters for many years as founder of the ‘AbovetheLaw’ legal blog, but the now-legal recruiter is lying in a Manhattan hospital bed being treated for coronavirus. In a New York Law Journal story, Lat described the isolation in his room, sing ‘negative pressure’ to exclude germs and described

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Law Society Seeking Clarification on Courts’ Closures . . But Not For One Judge

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The Law Society is seeking clarification from the Chief Justice as to the operation of the courts given the impending elevation of the COVID-19 virus alert level to the highest level. New Zealand courts are to suspend 238 jury trials for nine weeks from Monday due to the Covid-19 coronavirus and the Chief Justice has

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The China Coronavirus Lawsuit: The Law Firm Suing China For the Coronavirus

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The Berman Law Group, the Boca Raton-based personal injury firm, has been first out of the blocks to issue a lawsuit over the coronavirus, targeting a client as big as any they will ever sue: the Peoples Republic of China. The China coronavirus lawsuit filed this week by attorneys Matthew Moore and Vincent Duffy alleges

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Burns & Levinson Adds Leading Intellectual Property Attorney Christopher Carroll as a Partner

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Boston, MA, Mar. 19, 2020– Burns & Levinson announced today that veteran patent attorney Christopher Carroll has joined the firm as a partner in its Intellectual Property Group. Carroll was previously a partner at White & Case, and brings 17 years of experience advising clients on their patent, trademark and copyright strategies to the firm. He is licensed to

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Coronavirus Legal News – UK Bar Association Advice on Dealing with the Pandemic

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The challenges faced by bar associations globally in the face of COVID-19 have been major and the UK Law Gazette has published an article from Jonathan Goldsmith, a former secretary general of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe is worth re-publishing here.  I wrote about it last week. But I am writing about

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