Pandemic Pressures Restriction on Where Lawyers Can Practice

Aug. 10, 2020, 5:51 PM UTC

Here are the day’s top coronavirus stories from the team at Bloomberg Law:

  • LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: The Covid-19 pandemic is prompting calls to abolish a requirement that attorneys only practice in jurisdictions where they are admitted to the bar given the rise of remote work and other changes in professional life due to the coronavirus.
  • RELIEF ORDERS: President Donald Trump faces a battle over a set of executive actions he issued on Saturday providing economic relief measures that many of his fiercest critics actually support, including weekly federal unemployment payments, student loan relief and efforts to protect tenants ...

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