Wake Up Call: Contract Review Lawyers Still Onsite, Slam Risky Conditions

In today’s column, Orrick poached a four-partner energy team in London; a tech company in-house leader co-founded a law firm that advises on legal risks of artificial intelligence; Above The Law co-founder David Lat talked from his hospital bed about his Covid-19 infection; and the lawyer known as “patient zero” in a New York suburb hard hit by the virus seems to be recovering.

• Leading off, although dozens of Big Law firms are shifting to remote work to protect their attorneys and employees against spread of the novel coronavirus Covid-19, contract review attorneys, who typically work for outsourcing companies, say ...