how is this coronavirus affecting your work as a lawyer, as some courts are shutting down
hypothetically speaking, if all us courts closed down due to coronavirus for an indeterminate length of time, how will that affect lawyers and current law students and law schools?
I am less affected than most. Most of my work can be done from home and by telephone if necessary. Some hearings are going from fully in person to entirely telephone based or with some witnesses testifying by telephone.
Evidentiary hearings, and particularly jury trials, are more affected, but those are quite infrequent. The biggest potential impact is in criminal jury trials which can't be continued too far due to speedy trial requirements. Civil trials on non-emergency matters are mostly just being postponed.
Few courts are truly shutting down, they just aren't having people come in person to them.
Law students and law schools, like all K-college, is shifting to online. Few profs are skilled in doing that but there isn't any intrinsic reason that law can be taught and learned mostly online.
how is this coronavirus affecting your work as a lawyer, as some courts are shutting down
ReplyDeletehypothetically speaking, if all us courts closed down due to coronavirus for an indeterminate length of time, how will that affect lawyers and current law students and law schools?
I am less affected than most. Most of my work can be done from home and by telephone if necessary. Some hearings are going from fully in person to entirely telephone based or with some witnesses testifying by telephone.
ReplyDeleteEvidentiary hearings, and particularly jury trials, are more affected, but those are quite infrequent. The biggest potential impact is in criminal jury trials which can't be continued too far due to speedy trial requirements. Civil trials on non-emergency matters are mostly just being postponed.
Few courts are truly shutting down, they just aren't having people come in person to them.
Law students and law schools, like all K-college, is shifting to online. Few profs are skilled in doing that but there isn't any intrinsic reason that law can be taught and learned mostly online.