Navigate Litigation 2.0

Lawyers from around the country recently weighed in on the need for amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to meet the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and future national emergencies. Topping the list of proposals are calls for changes to the rules governing remote depositions. Many lawyers and bar groups want remote…

At this point in the legal community’s forced conversion to virtual lawyering, this much is clear: Attorneys are succeeding with remote technologies but not without a few bumps on the road to success. That sentiment was evidenced in a recent survey of attorneys conducting remote depositions—many for the first time—conducted by TechValidate, a third-party research…

Are you prepared to move your depositions forward—online? Beware: It takes more than a webcam and an internet connection to safely and securely undertake the process. A complete understanding of what remote options are available and how they work is critical to avoiding the pitfalls of inaccurately hosting depositions online. Now, more than ever, attorneys…

With stay-at-home orders expiring across most of the United States, law firms are confronting for the first time the challenge of opening their physical offices in a manner that is safe for clients and employees, as well as in compliance with public health orders issued in the states and cities where they practice. It is…

In a July 2013 article that seems as if it could have been written yesterday, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., predicted that virtual lawyering would become pervasive within the legal profession once lawyers familiarized themselves with the technology. Not only would lawyers embrace virtual litigation practices on their own initiative,…