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Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Necessity Is the Mother of Innovation: The Option of Virtual Evidentiary Hearings and Non-Jury Trials Goes from Provisional to...

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As we all are acutely aware, during the last 21+ months, the normally slow-to-change practice of law has been thrust into overdrive, forcing lawyers and courts to quickly pivot from a largely in-person practice to virtual....more

CDF Labor Law LLP

SB 241: The Future of Virtual Courtrooms and the Impact on Employment Law

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Every court in California relies increasingly on remote video technology since the COVID-19 pandemic effectively closed courtrooms.  California’s Judicial Council adopted temporary emergency rules to assist courts providing...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Virtual Civil Jury Trials Begin Without Consent In New Jersey Beginning April 5

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Virtual civil jury trials will be scheduled statewide in New Jersey starting April 5, 2021, with consent to proceed remotely not required as part of the state’s two-phase approach to virtual jury trials for all dockets and...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Putting Your Best Foot Forward In A Remote Arbitration

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At the beginning of 2020, arguing hearings and trying cases in a completely remote environment seemed like science fiction. Now, just a year later, courts and litigants have adapted to our new virtual litigation environment....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Trial by Zoom: virtual trials in the time of COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact continues to send ripples into an ever-evolving court system as the quarantines and lockdowns endure. The early days of the pandemic halted hearings and stayed cases, but after almost a year of...more

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Litigating in a Pandemic: How Remote Depositions Have Changed My Practice

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Seemingly overnight, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of the legal industry. With the sudden shift to remote work, in-person activities such as depositions are now being conducted almost exclusively in virtual...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Fourth Circuit Remains Remote For March

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The Fourth Circuit announced that its March session of oral arguments would remain remote...more

Planet Depos, LLC

Remote Deposition Tips: Pointers from the Field

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With 2020 having finally reached its long-awaited close, why not consider a positive of the year? We have mastered the art of the remote deposition! Yes, after months of Zooming here and there and everywhere, it is time to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Virtual Courtrooms in Miami - The Jury Returns

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This morning we received this notice from state court in Miami (the Eleventh Judicial Circuit) where we have a case pending: Coronavirus/COVID-19: Courthouses are closed for in-person hearings and trials based on public...more

A&O Shearman

Love them or hate them: Virtual hearings are here to stay

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Commercial dispute resolution has undergone a forced revolution during 2020, with courts and arbitral tribunals in many major jurisdictions responding to social restrictions put in place to control the spread of coronavirus...more

White & Case LLP

Managing civil disputes in France during the COVID-19 crisis (III)

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has substantially disrupted the management of civil litigation during the first national lockdown of 17 March 2020 to 11 May 2020. French judicial activity was limited to "essential litigation" and...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Court Orders Videoconference Questioning for Discovery and Provides Guidance for the Use of Technology

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Conducting questioning for discovery remotely by videoconference is a stable, predictable, safe, and efficient procedure during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench confirmed in Mostafa...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Embracing the New Normal: Tips for Remote Depositions

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Get Your Virtual Background Ready! How To Navigate The New Realities Of Zoom Depositions - For many of us, connecting by Zoom, Teams, or WebEx has become routine. Whether it is for work-related meetings, online schooling,...more

JAMS

Can’t Wait for Your Court Date? Why Not Mediate?

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COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on our citizens and our institutions. Our courts have been shut down and are only slowly coming back online. As we are seeing on our college campuses and at other institutions, decision makers are...more

BakerHostetler

Litigating in a Pandemic: Tips on Dealing with the New Abnormal

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In a time of social isolation can litigation still be used to bring parties together to resolve problems? Are there advantages to the technology being relied upon by the courts and mediators and are clients and litigators...more

Planet Depos, LLC

Important Reminders For Your Remote Deposition

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You’ve likely been taking remote depositions for going on six months now, so you’re well-versed in the procedure. Even so, a refresher is always a good thing. Or perhaps you’ve been resisting the remote trend and are now...more

Troutman Pepper

Virtual Trials Are No Longer Just a Remote Possibility

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On August 6, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (M.D.N.C.) completed a five-day bench trial that was conducted entirely by videoconference. ...more

Jaburg Wilk

Virtual Depositions are as Easy as One, Two… Can You Hear Me, Now?

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For cost containment - or other reasons - attorneys are trying fewer civil cases to juries. Years ago, trial attorneys would easily try dozens of cases per year. Now, it is not uncommon for a “trial attorney” to try one or...more

NAM (National Arbitration and Mediation)

Law.com Webinar: Our New Reality – Virtual ADR Is Here and Ready to Assist Attorneys in Resolving Disputes

Join NAM neutral, Hon. Larry S. Schachner, J.S.C. (Ret.), in a pre-recorded Law.com webcast, "Our New Reality – Virtual ADR Is Here and Ready to Assist Attorneys in Resolving Disputes." Now that we are all faced with the...more

Lowndes

5 Advantages to Mediation by Video Conference

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As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Florida, in-person mediations are not occurring in most instances. Prior to the pandemic, most lawyers disfavored mediation by video conference and believed that mediation in person was...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Virtually Litigating the Complex Case

In a July 2013 article that seems as if it could have been written yesterday, District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., predicted that virtual lawyering would become pervasive within the legal...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Will Virtual Jury Trials be part of the “New Normal” Ushered in by the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Just a few months ago, the idea of a virtual jury trial probably seemed inconceivable to most judges and lawyers. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering courthouses throughout the nation and most in-person proceedings...more

JAMS

Why Now Is a Good Time to Engage in Mediation or Other Streamlined Dispute Resolution

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As a recently retired federal judge who served for more than two decades on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, I know firsthand how daunting managing a caseload can be even in normal times. Now,...more

White and Williams LLP

Virtual Jury Trials: The Next Wave of Remote Legal Practice

One of the most obvious and unavoidable results of the COVID-19 crisis has been the postponement of jury service and, by extension, all jury trials. Given the inherent difficulties of convening juries in a world of social...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Remote Lawyering Is Here to Stay

Although the COVID-19 pandemic’s lasting effects on modern society are far from known today, there’s little doubt that the disease has prodded a reluctant legal profession into the digital age. During the past few months more...more

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