Legal Market Insights
- “The jury is still out on Zoom trials,” from tech news site The Verge, looks at the legal industries adjustment to more remote court hearings, highlighting potential problems such as online security, imbalances favoring some parties over others, and difficulty performing journalism’s “court monitor” function.
- The COVID-19 pandemic is upending all sectors of the legal industry. But litigation practices – focusing on contract disputes, financial fraud, and creditor-debtor issues, for example – may see work pick up. Along these lines, legal tech companies that support litigation practices expect to see new business opportunities as litigators ply their trade in pandemic-altered conditions requiring remote communications and electronic support.
- An Above the Law sponsor offers advice for “Becoming a Better, Healthier Lawyer: 5 Tips for Staying Sane, Productive and Healthy Today and Every Day”
- Work smart, work well, work comfortably. Here are “Five Tips for Setting Up Your Home Study Zone or Office.”
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