Judge Reminds Lawyers to Wear Shirts During Zoom Hearings

A Broward County, Fla., judge recently sent a letter to members of the Weston Bar Association to remind them of their continuing professional obligations, including dressing professionally, despite how coronavirus has upended their lives.

The letter was prompted by the civil division’s transition to hearings and dockets being run via the video-communications app Zoom. The system’s family court had already been running on the popular platform, according to Judge Dennis Bailey’s note, which appears to have been posted around April 9.

From the family court experiences, the note said, judges have learned that some lawyers have been using Zoom hearings ...