Navigate Litigation 2.0

For outside law firms, the early lessons for delivering quality legal services to corporate clients during the COVID-19 pandemic are simple ones. Be present. Be nimble. Be helpful. Remote work is here to stay. These were some of the lessons identified by general counsel based on their experience of working with outside law firms in…

No doubt you’ve seen the Farmers Insurance ads claiming, “We know a thing or two because we’ve seen a thing or two.” Most describe insurance claims paid on foreseeable calamities caused by familiar animals — bears, deer, moose, and rodents. They’re out there doing the things these lovable creatures usually do. Swimming in the backyard…

COVID-19, an enduring public health challenge that stretches across the world, raises interesting legal ethics issues for lawyers. Ethical considerations while practicing law during the COVID-19 epidemic have been written about at length during the past few months, but one question has received relatively little attention: What ethical issues arise when attorneys or their clients…

If tracking litigation is merely challenging, then tracking COVID-19 litigation must be a form of madness. Every day brings new cases and new theories of recovery across the country, as the virus continues to disrupt nearly every aspect of our lives. According to legal data analysis provider Lex Machina, federal courts have seen more than…

Six months into our shared national adventure with SARS-CoV-2, mere words have lost their power to frame the gravity of the moment. The phrase “coronavirus pandemic” rolls off everyone’s tongue so easily, as if the topic under discussion were a baseball score or a grocery list. And the phrase “new normal” makes the humdrum state…

June and July saw courts across the country struggling to resume in-person proceedings, with more than a few coughs and hiccups along the way. Courthouses opened only to close days later when an employee fell ill. And several lawsuits alleging that COVID-19 safeguards are either absent or unlawfully lax added to the judiciary’s unprecedented challenge…