Videoconference, Telecommunications

FCC to Require Video Conferencing Providers, Equipment and Software to Include Accessibility Features

Cooley LLP on 12/17/2024

The Federal Communications Commission’s second report and order and further notice of proposed rulemaking (FNPRM) increases accessibility to video conferencing and Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) for individuals with...more

Bill Would Allow Shareholders To Phone It In

Allen Matkins on 1/18/2023

Currently, the California Corporations Code prohibits a California corporation from conducting a meeting of shareholders solely by electronic transmission by and to the corporation, electronic video screen communication,...more

Remote Proceedings: Zooming Past Litigants’ Due Process Rights

Fox Rothschild LLP on 5/14/2021

In January 2020, the Appellate Division considered an important question: how should a judge assess a party’s request to appear at a trial and present testimony by way of video transmission? The timing of this consideration...more

How to Get a Deal Done During COVID-19: A Western Perspective

Bennett Jones LLP on 11/4/2020

While COVID-19 caused a dramatic slowdown to the deal-making boom of the last several years, we expect to see a resurgence in M&A activity in Canada and globally. Reuters reported that, "a deal frenzy in September led to a...more

Legal Help for COVID-19 Problems Is a Phone Call Away

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 9/10/2020

Without question, the types of technology that the legal community has adopted to deal with the problems brought about by COVID-19 have been impressive. Retrofitting a system of justice—one that presupposes large groups of...more

COVID-19 – New Regulations for Holding Annual General Meetings in Germany

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/1/2020

The protective governmental measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular, the restrictions on the assembly of persons, affects the ability of companies to act. For the time being, Stock Corporation...more