COVID-19

The ERC was written with good intentions at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as a practical matter, the jury is still out.

Learning to integrate a time management system is a critical part of this journey.

The disadvantages of virtual appearances can cost you and your client.

Imagine if they would have told teenagers to not eat Tide Pods. The horror!

Can you possibly imagine any US Supreme Court justice doing this and why is it Sam Alito?

Individuals undoubtedly have a better connection with one another if they can see each other’s faces, and that takes the conversation to a different level.

The Am Law 100 firm is being sued under under state, federal, and New York City laws.

YOU get a prior restraint! And YOU get a prior restraint!

* Ken Paxton will not testify at his impeachment trial. I mean… why add perjury to this list? [Reuters]

* The revelation that the attorneys in 303 Creative tried to create fictional standing can’t force the Court to revisit the case, but could be the basis of ethical claims against the attorneys. Just because the Supreme Court is in on the fraud doesn’t make it any less of a fraud. [Yahoo Sports]

* Federal judge who had already become a go to judge for the “let’s all die of COVID” lobby, blocks White House from communicating with social media platforms, complaining that the government had done too much to push back against anti-vaxx misinformation. [Business Insider]

* It will shock you to learn that a core Trump business interest is slapped with an $18 million SEC fine. [Law360]

* The morass of web-scraping laws and the future of AI. [Bloomberg Law News]

* While everyone focused on the Supreme Court’s broad-based assault on constitutional and statutory norms last week, they also quietly kicked to the curb a challenge aimed at a law explicitly created as part of Jim Crow voter suppression. [The Guardian]

* Lawyer accused of murdering lawyer father. [NY Post]

Accommodating the client's desire for a personal meeting depends on the circumstances of the particular situation.

You could say they sanitized the record.

If associates are just coming to offices and spending as little time as possible there while checking the box that they made it to the office in the first place, what is the point of coming to an office at all?

Those used to virtual arguments will need to adapt to in-person arguments in certain ways.

Things can always get dumber. And they probably will.

The firm really wants its money back.

* NY courts get another bomb threat amid Trump probe. [Law360]

* And this goes a long way in explaining why the jury in the E. Jean Carroll civil suit against Trump will be anonymous. [National Law Journal]

* Arbitrators want more diversity but can’t seem to get it. Maybe because it’s hard to improve diversity among adjudicators without building a more diverse profession as a whole. [Bloomberg Law News]

* Someone else made this point already, but the Fifth Circuit now simultaneously maintains that employers can fire employees for any reason at all AND that employers cannot require proof of vaccination. Crackerjack legal minds down there. [Reuters]

* This may come as a shock, but Kari Lake is still losing. [NBC News]

* School shooter’s parents to face trial. [CBS]

* And congrats to Johanna Bond on being named the new dean at Rutgers Law. [NJBiz]

As a Virginia-based, fully remote shareholder for a Maine-based law firm, and a practice group leader to a mostly remote team located across three time zones, I have seen the opportunity in traditional law firms willing to leverage technology and communication to build innovative practices.

If law firms are inclined to host law firm happy hours, a few things should be kept in mind to ensure success.