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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption for businesses and individuals around the globe. Our content focuses on its impact on the legal industry, including law firms, the court system, in-house counsel, tech companies and law schools.
By Alex D'Elia | December 14, 2023
Pfizer and BioNTech have sued the Polish and Hungarian governments over COVID-19 vaccine orders.
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By Christopher Niesche | October 25, 2023
Carnival was negligent and deceptive, Australia's Federal Court finds.
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By Anne Bagamery | May 18, 2023
The cases reflect the continuing realignment of air travel players in Europe amid the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By Michael A. Mora and Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | April 7, 2023
Former Hunton Andrews Kurth partner Jerry Li is now a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Beijing.
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By Amy Guthrie | April 6, 2023
Creditors who offered a brief respite to Brazilian companies during the pandemic are now coming to collect as the country struggles with high inflation and double-digit interest rates.
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By Andrew Maloney | Patrick Smith | Hank Grezlak | January 30, 2023
As law firms are pushing lawyers and staff to return to offices, constant stress, triggered by the pandemic and other events, has changed people and the legal workplace.
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By Law.com International | September 22, 2022
Watch our global correspondents and editors review the recent performance of the world's biggest law firms, discuss major trends in international legal markets and talk about what they think we will see in the coming year.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | September 16, 2022
Clifford Chance's global head of diversity & inclusion, Tiernan Brady and recently-appointed UK head, Nina Goswami, talk through previous failures in the D&I world and where to go next.
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By Gail J. Cohen | August 11, 2022
George Strathy, the chief justice of Canada's largest court system, is urging law firm leaders to help combat stress and anxiety in the legal profession. Law firms are listening.
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By Paul Hodkinson | July 19, 2022
The move sent 'shockwaves' as it could mean insurers try to avoid lawsuits by ending professional indemnity cover for law firms advising claimants.
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By Emily Cousins | June 6, 2024
"Plaintiffs go too far in asserting that it is abhorrent to scrutinize whether a party's belief is rooted in religion," the decision said. "The Second Circuit has held that an individual's conviction, even if sincere and strong, does not 'automatically mean that the belief is religious' and, instead, could be found to be based on secular or scientific principles."
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By Charles Toutant | May 31, 2024
"Under the clear language of the policy itself, it's the order of a governmental authority, which prohibits access to the premises, which triggers the coverage. Because there were several different executive orders which were issued, in our view, each order triggered coverage under the policy," plaintiffs attorney Michael Canning said.
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By Riley Brennan | May 28, 2024
The court concluded that while the district court didn't err in dismissing the lawsuit over plaintiffs' nonappearance, as they believed they were to appear by telephone, the dismissal was too drastic given the circumstances.
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By Sulaiman Abdur Rahman | May 24, 2024
Marilyn J. Mosby, who was convicted of making a false mortgage application and two counts of perjury, received 12 months of home confinement as part of 36 months of supervised release.
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By Cheryl Miller | May 23, 2024
The unanimous high court stopped short of saying that COVID-19 could never cause insurance-covered property damage. But a concert venue company failed to prove that it did in this case, the court held.
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By Ira Brad Matetsky | May 14, 2024
A discussion of two recent Court of Appeals decisions interpreting the COVID-19 executive orders that tolled statutes of limitations.
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By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack | May 8, 2024
"Was the difference significant enough to lead to a legally required prorated tuition refund?" write Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack.
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By Colleen Murphy | April 24, 2024
"Indeed, the judge's opinion was silent as to Susana's direct claim against the Bergen defendants," the opinion said. "Instead, the judge focused on Alfredo's allegation the Palisades defendants compelled him to 'reuse masks and gowns' and whether Susana could prove her injuries were proximately caused thereby. In the absence of an analysis of Susana's allegations, we are unable to engage in meaningful review."
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By Ross Todd | April 12, 2024
Brendon DeMay and Priyanka Timblo of Holwell Shuster & Goldberg represented a company that claimed Walmart backed out of a deal struck during the pandemic to get into the business-to-business market for disposable nitrile gloves when demand for PPE cooled.
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By Avalon Zoppo | March 27, 2024
A Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure should be tweaked to allow trial judges to conduct pretrial criminal hearings over video conference if the defendant consents, U.S. District Judge Brett Ludwig wrote.
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The African Legal Awards recognise exceptional achievement within Africa s legal community during a period of rapid change.
Celebrating achievement, excellence, and innovation in the legal profession in the UK.
Legalweek New York explores Business and Regulatory Trends, Technology and Talent drivers impacting law firms.
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