Employment law may be the practice area most affected by Covid-19. Below is a frank conversation between Steve Kardell, name partner in Kardell Law Group in Dallas, who focuses on the plaintiff's side of Covid-19 employment law and, on the management side, Harry Jones, a shareholder in the Dallas office of Littler Mendelson who is a designated Covid-19 expert for the firm.

Steve Kardell: As a result of being on the other side of many disputes with Littler, I am aware of their multi-functional knowledge base, for both client counseling and litigation. Covid-19 has obviously upended all facets of employment law. Harry, you are helping spearhead Littler's Covid-19 practice, I want to get your perspective on this monumental change. Have you ever seen anything like this in your lifetime?

Harry Jones: Well, it was a bit before my life began, but the closest examples would be the civil rights laws passed in the 60's (Equal Pay Act of 1963, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination 1967), along with some other laws that followed when I was alive (Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1978, Americans with Disabilities Act 1990), but these were a trickle compared to the current tsunami, and they were designed to "make the world a better place," whereas this raft of laws is about surviving a confluence of events.