Moving Courts Online | ABA Law Practice Magazine

Of the numerous changes imposed on the practice of law by the COVID-19 pandemic, perhaps nothing was more of a watershed than the broad move to online litigation. If you are a litigator, I would wager that you have both taken and defended more than a few depositions on Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Go To Meeting or a similar platform; participated in substantive motions hearings before a court or administrative body; and perhaps even had complete trials or administrative hearings—all online. Prior to February 2020, very few attorneys knew about, let alone had used, Zoom. By April 2020, every lawyer I know was using Zoom as a verb—several times a day.

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