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Daily Business Review

Department of Justice, States, SEC Pursue COVID-19 Enforcement Actions

A Baker Donelson government enforcement group looks at the building effort targeting COVID-19 scams and virus-related crimes.
7 minute read

The American Lawyer

How to Cancel Your Firm's Summer Program

There is little point to having a summer program this year, Hugh Simons argues. He offers a path for firms to cancel their programs, some guesses as to who may be first to do it and what firms should offer summer associates in return.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Ethics Forum: Questions and Answers on Professional Repsonsibility

As an older lawyer, the lesson I have learned from this coronavirus shutdown, and other numerous quarantines, is that the future of law is not knowledge, advocacy or trial skills. It is technology. Am I right?
9 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

COVID-19 and Online Dispute Resolution It's a Whole New World Out There

Online Dispute Resolution, or ODR, in its broadest definition refers to the coupling of technology with ADR. It has been a growing force in the ADR movement for several decades—a fast-coming phenomenon of the future.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

What Spanish Flu-Era Contract Fights Tell Us about Pandemics and Contractual Performance

A historical parallel exists that potentially sheds light on the approach courts may adopt when interpreting contracts in light of an epidemic: the Spanish flu, writes Sidley Austin's global litigation co-head Yvette Ostolaza and associates Daniel Driscoll and Tayler Green.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Work-Related Text Messages: An Invitation to Government Review

In-house lawyers and compliance departments remind us to think twice before putting something in a work email that could come back to haunt us. But regulators often take the position that work-related communications from personal cellphones are just as discoverable as official work emails.
10 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

A Gathering Storm Threatens the Future of Legal Aid

As funding dries up, a flood of legal needs is beginning to build, and it will soon spill over into Connecticut courts.
5 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

COVID-19 and DNRs: A Fatal Combination

Should the medical profession weigh its well-settled approach to resuscitating a dying patient against the real danger of exposing doctors and nurses to COVID-19?
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses "Tompkins 183 LLC v. Marsha Frankel," and "U.S. Bank N.A. v. Haskins."
17 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Teaching in the Time of Cholera: I Caught the COVID-19 Virus

As I write this, I am in isolation at the UConn Medical Center in Farmington, having passed (failed?) two COVID-19 tests.
4 minute read

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