COVID-19 Legal News Roundup: June 11th Edition

June 11, 2020

By 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 news headlines on COVID-19 on topics that matter to you: access to justice, the Courts, legal innovation, legal practice, remote working, students & articling, and wellness.   

Access to Justice

• Legal coaching: disrupting the status quo | Jo-Anne Stark, Canadian Lawyer (June 9)
• Sask. lawyer helping U.S. record label support incarcerated musicians | Julia Peterson, CBC (June 10)
• Senior family court judge fears self-represented litigants being left behind by COVID-19 | John Schofield, The Lawyer’s Daily (June 8)

Courts

• Courts need new ideas to safely resume jury trials, selection, lawyers say | Terry Davidson, The Lawyer’s Daily (June 10)
• Most Remote Court Conferences Should Be By Phone, Not Videoconference | Jordan Rothman, Above the Law (June 10)
• Trial and error: Technical hiccup interrupts Supreme Court’s first virtual hearing | Jim Broskill, CTV News (June 9)

Legal Innovation

• COVID-19’s Impact on the Legal Ecosystem | Dan Rodriguez, Legal Talk Network (June 10) Podcast
• “Jealous Guards”: The Legal Profession and Future Legal Services | Julie Macfarlane and Dayna Cornwall, Representing Yourself Canada News (June 9) Podcast
• Mayson calls for single regulator of all legal services | Neil Rose, Legal Futures (June 11)

Legal Practice

• Silver Lining from Law Firm Layoffs: Reinvent Your Legal Career | Dave Galbenski, Attorney at Work (June 8)
• Small firms “hit hardest” by lockdown | Nick Hilborne, Legal Futures (June 11)
• Why COVID-19 has potential to put me out of business | Erich Johnson, The Lawyer’s Daily (June 10)

Remote Working

• Digital Assistants Are Listening: Is Your Law Firm at Risk? | Sam Bocetta, Attorney at Work (June 11)
• How to run the best online meetings | Joanne Hunter, Legal Futures (June 9)
• The Rocket Guide to Working Remotely As A Lawyer | Bob Ambrogi, Lawsitesblog (June 5)

Students & Articling

• After the pandemic: Fixing legal education | Yves Faguy, CBA National (June 10)
• The Future Of Law School | Charles Lew, Forbes (June 9)
• LSAT FLEX: the LSAT taken from home | Kellye Testy, Legal Talk Network (June 10) Podcast

Wellness

• Grief Is Essential | Shawn Healy, Attorney at Work (June 10)
• In confinement as a lawyer and mom | Léonie Tardif-Archambault, The Lawyer’s Daily (June 9)
• The Myth Of the High-Functioning, Impaired Lawyer | Brian Cuban, Above the Law (June 10)