Legal Zoom: Law firms make big changes to please the virtual court

Accustomed to in-person hearings and trials, business attorneys scramble to adapt to the COVID-19 era while also responding to a Pandora’s Box of workplace law issues.

By Brian Hartz
| 6:00 a.m. October 2, 2020

Courtesy. Eric Adams of Shutts & Bowen LLP.

From piles of yellow legal pads and towering bookcases lined with impressive, leather-bound tomes to high standards of dress and conduct required in the courtroom, law, historically, has been one of the more low-tech, old-school professions. Heck, one of the seminal films about training to be part of the legal industry is called “The Paper Chase.”