Wake Up Call: Surge in Covid Litigation Work in View, Survey Says

In today’s column, top U.K. law firms are increasingly relying on a government furlough scheme to reduce drain on their cash during the Covid-19 crisis; as Kirkland out-bills everybody for Covid-related bankruptcy and restructuring work, firms are competing to hire bankruptcy expertise; demand is also hot for data privacy and security lawyers; the D.C. Bar decided to make its next bar exam a pared-down, online-only test given in October, with no refunds possible for people who’d rather not take it in that form; in Wisconsin, a white woman lawyer got arrested for spitting on a black teenager during George Floyd ...