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COVID-19 Legal News Roundup: August 20th Edition
August 21, 2020By Alan Kilpatrick, Reference Librarian
The COVID-19 pandemic, and its impact on the practice of law, is changing rapidly. We want to help you stay up to date with the latest news.
Each week we aggregate the leading legal headlines on COVID-19 on the topics that matter to you:
Access to Justice
- For Canada to truly recover economically, we need new thinking around access to justice | John Panusa, Globe & Mail (August 19)
- Surge in COVID-19 justice issues could spur Legal Aid Ontario funding crisis, lawyers warn | John Schofield, The Lawyer’s Daily (August 20)
- The Two-Fold Dilemma of the Self-Represented Litigant: COVID-19 and Navigating the Court System | Anna Sallah & Julie Macfarlane, Slaw (August 18)
The Courts
- Courtroom Access In The Age Of COVID | Joe Patrice, Above the Law (August 14) Podcast
- Court of Queen’s Bench modernizations | Marieka Andrew, Assiniboia Times (August 18)
- Details About Using CaseLines in Ontario | Heather Douglas, Slaw (August 19)
Legal Innovation
- Justice, Livestreamed | Mia Armstrong, Slate (August 14)
- Launching Legal Technology Is Hard Enough… And Then LexisNexis Faced The COVID Pandemic [AK1] | Joe Patrice, Above the Law (August 19)
- Unbundle the Courts | Jordan Furlong, Slaw (August 20)
Legal Practice
- Bench trial by video? This lawyer says it went better than expected | Lyle Morgan, ABA Journal (August 19) Podcast
- Chambers blames government approach to justice system for decision to close | Neil Rose, Legal Futures (August 14)
- Top OBA leadership begins new era of diversity | John Schofield, The Lawyer’s Daily (August 14)
Remote Working
- Discussion on Zoom between plaintiff and jurors is not grounds for mistrial, judge says | Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal (August 20)
- On The Future Of Offices And Cities | David Lat, Above the Law (August 18)
- Tips, tricks for a telephone court hearing | Ashley F. Krol & Katie Hunter, The Lawyer’s Daily (August 17)
Students & Articling
- Ain’t No Party Like A COVID Party | Joe Patrice, Legal Talk Network (August 18) Podcast
- Bar students call on regulator to waive exam requirement | Neil Rose Legal Futures (August 20)
- Post-Pandemic Legal Education | Mark Cohen, Forbes (August 13)
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