COVID-19
537 ABA Journal COVID-19 articles.
COVID-19 has sparked lawyers to adopt technology at a much faster clip than previously seen in the legal industry and ahead of consumer expectations for doing so, according to cloud-based company Clio’s
2020 Legal Trends Report.
Oct 13, 2020 5:08 PM CDT
Democrats focused on the Affordable Care Act in their opening statements Monday morning at the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Oct 12, 2020 2:37 PM CDT
Baker Botts will lay off 50 staff members in office services and secretarial services, the law firm confirmed Thursday.
Oct 9, 2020 11:30 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday declined to reinstate a federal requirement for women seeking medication abortions to pick up the pill at a hospital, clinic or medical office.
Oct 9, 2020 9:38 AM CDT
Scanned sticky notes on Michael Flynn documents altered dates, DOJ admits
The Department of Justice has acknowledged that FBI agents’ sticky notes weren’t removed from documents before they were scanned…
Oct 8, 2020 4:39 PM CDT
Top DOJ officials said to be ‘driving force’ in family separations
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, told federal prosecutors in 2018 that…
Oct 7, 2020 4:24 PM CDT
Lawyers and staff members at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton will be getting full paychecks and make-whole payments for money withheld because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oct 7, 2020 9:19 AM CDT
Law prof who studied Black land ownership wins ‘genius grant’
Thomas Wilson Mitchell, a law professor at the Texas A&M University, is the only lawyer among 21 winners of the…
Oct 6, 2020 3:15 PM CDT
A Tennessee judge has received a public reprimand for complaining that the state supreme court’s “grand wizard” required that masks be worn in court.
Oct 6, 2020 10:17 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a South Carolina requirement for voters who use mail-in ballots to obtain the signature of a witness.
Oct 6, 2020 9:46 AM CDT
Michigan’s attorney general will no longer criminally prosecute those who violate COVID-19 executive orders after the state supreme court ruled Friday that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer exceeded her authority by issuing them.
Oct 5, 2020 9:31 AM CDT
Supreme Court expedites case on census count
The U.S. Supreme Court is moving quickly in a case challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to exclude from the census count immigrants who…
Oct 1, 2020 4:42 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes for its new term on Oct. 5 with grief in the air after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a confirmation battle and election controversies swirling all around it and the court’s operations still disrupted by the pandemic.
Oct 1, 2020 2:34 PM CDT
No other first Monday in October, the traditional start of a new U.S. Supreme Court term, ever has been like this one. With the country still in the midst of a pandemic, oral arguments will be held by telephone as they were in May. The justices and the country are still reeling from the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18. Looming large is the coming confirmation battle over the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who would add another staunch conservative to the court.
Oct 1, 2020 9:09 AM CDT
A growing number of negligence suits are being filed across the country against nursing homes and other long-term care facilities by families whose relatives died from the coronavirus while living in such facilities.
Oct 1, 2020 4:00 AM CDT
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