While you can try to predict what types of legal actions the crisis should cause to increase or decrease, it’s hard to be sure any such trend can be attributed solely to the coronavirus, or whether there is another hidden driver.

July’s unemployment figures show a decline in the jobless rate for legal occupations. But this improvement also came with a loss in legal occupations employment. The combination means that workers in July left the labor force, creating an artificially rosy view of unemployment in the legal sector.

The second-quarter results from Bloomberg Law’s database of union pay raises are in, and they are stark. For the first time since 2011, the average first-year wage increase negotiated in union contracts has fallen in consecutive quarters.

The red-hot SPAC market has been making deal terms easier for SPAC sponsors—and life harder for the traditional IPO market. Bloomberg Law’s review of SPAC documents has found that terms that were standard equipment for SPACs only months ago, such as a unit price of $10 and units consisting of both common shares and warrants, now are optional.

The European Union is concluding its first investigation into excessive pharmaceuticals pricing. But despite building up a case against Aspen Pharmaceuticals since May 2017, the EU has opted against an adverse finding and a fine in favor of accepting “commitments” from Aspen to change its practices. Given uncertainty in EU excessive pricing law, this might have been the best outcome.