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Weekly Recap of COVID-19 News for Legal: April 10, 2020

COVID-19 is changing the landscape of how business gets done by law firms and corporate legal teams globally. In an ever-evolving world, having the latest information on hand is important. To this end, we are providing a weekly recap of the latest news and resources, starting this week.

COVID-19 is changing the landscape of how business gets done by law firms and corporate legal teams globally. In an ever-evolving world, having the latest information on hand is important. To this end, we are providing a weekly recap of the latest news and resources, starting this week.

This Law.com story, “COVID-19 Pushed Legal Toward Tech, Remote Work,” discusses how remote work and workflow automation may stick around long after COVID-19 runs its course.

Paul Smith, the former Chairman of Eversheds, authored a blog post, “Black Swan Alert! – Covid-19 and what senior partners should be doing right now to survive,” on inhousecommunity.com.

An article by McDermott, Will & Emery published via Lexology outlines how COVID-19 impacts class action litigation.

On Richard Tromans’ blog, Artificial Lawyer, Litera offers tips on remote work for lawyers in a write up called, “Empowering Lawyers Who Work Remotely.”

Another story via Law.com, “In Volatile Economy, Legal Is Becoming More Open to ALSPs, Technology" covers the possible trend of companies relying more on ALSPs in the future, as many will continue the current cost control efforts.

We see many law firms setting up online resource centers on COVID-19 resources. Here’s one example by Dorsey.

Lastly, in case you missed it, we published a blog post this week called “The Future of eDiscovery Post COVID-19.”

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