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From: Securities Law360 <newsglaw360.com> To: Subject: Coronavirus: Your Afternoon Briefing Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:17:59 +0000 it .aw360 Special Report Coronavirus Special Newsletter Tuesday, May 5, 2020 Follow Law360 TOP NEWS LAW FIRMS Akerman LLP What GCs Want From Outside Counsel As Virus Rages On Allen & Overy Some general counsel and law firms are working together to share the burden Arent Fox of the COVID-19 outbreak, agreeing on discounts, alternative fee Arnold & Porter arrangements or extensions on legal bills to help weather the financial storm. Baker Botts Legal Work Has Plummeted And Lawyers Are Stressed Baker Donelson The number of new legal matters has fallen significantly during the first four Baker McKenzie months of 2020 compared to the previous year as the world reels from the Ballard Spahr coronavirus pandemic, and many lawyers are now anxious about the success of their practices, research released Monday shows. Barack Ferrazzano Belkin Burden Coronavirus: How Law Firms Are Handling The Downturn Benesch Friedlander UPDATED May 5, 2020, 1:25 PM EDT I The spreading coronavirus pandemic Blank Rome has upended the legal industry, forcing firms to cut salaries, lay off attorneys Brown Rudnick and make changes to summer associate programs. Here is a roundup of how law firms are responding. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Buchanan Ingersoll Nixon Peabody Cancels Summer Program Without Job Pledge Cadwalader Wickersham Nixon Peabody LLP confirmed Monday that it has canceled its 2020 summer Cahill Gordon associate program, and was the first firm to do so without also promising to Cleary Gottlieb extend job offers to the second-year law students affected. Clifford Chance Pillsbury Cuts Pay For Attys, Staff In Face Of Pandemic Cooley Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has joined the ranks of law firms rolling Covington & Burling out cost-saving measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, confirming Cozen O'Connor Monday that it has made pay cuts in its U.S. offices to help shoulder the Cravath Swaine economic effects of the crisis. Crowell & Moring Liberals Tell Senate GOP To Focus On Pandemic, Not Judges DAC Beachcroft As the full Senate convened in Washington for the first time since March, left- DLA Piper leaning civil rights groups on Monday urged Republicans to stop processing Davis & Gilbert LLP President Donald Trump's judicial nominees, starting with a confirmation hearing set for Wednesday. Davis Wright Tremaine Debevoise & Plimpton CLOSINGS AND RESTRICTIONS Dechert Dentons Coronavirus: The Latest Court Closures And Restrictions Dickinson Wright UPDATED May 5, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT I As courts across the country take Dinsmore & Shohl measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, some are restricting access and altering their procedures. Here is a roundup of changes. Dorsey & Whitney Duane Morris EFTA00032893 Coronavirus: The Latest EU Court Closures And Restrictions Dykema Gossett UPDATED May 5, 2020, 11:40AM GMT I As courts across the region take Eckert Seamans measures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, some are restricting Edelson PC access and altering their procedures. Here is a roundup of changes. Epstein Becker Green UK Judiciary Mulls Radical Measures To Resume Jury Trials Eversheds Sutherland England's judiciary is under pressure to resume jury trials amid a mounting Faegre Drinker backlog of criminal cases that risks swamping the criminal justice system, but Fisher Phillips lawyers are at odds over how far the courts should go to get juries seated Foley & Lardner again. Fox Rothschild Fla. Extends Jury Trial Suspension Until July Fragomen Del Rey Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady on Monday extended Fried Frank the suspension of jury trials in Florida state courts until July 2 and expanded Fross Zelnick the list of court proceedings that will be held remotely during the coronavirus Gibson Dunn pandemic. Goldberg Segalla WHAT IT MEANS FOR ATTORNEYS Goodwin Greenberg Traurig USPTO Unveils Virus Patent Platform, EPO Extends Deadlines Greenspoon Marder The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launched a new online marketplace Hinshaw & Culbertson Monday for patents related to COVID-19, while its European counterpart said Hodgson Russ it is extending certain deadlines until next month due to the pandemic. Hogan Lovells Texas Justices Won't Review Coronavirus Shutdown Orders Hueston Hennigan The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a challenge brought Husch Blackwell by 11 businesses fighting what they called -unsupportable" edicts and Irell & Manella executive orders that city and county officials made to limit businesses during Jackson Lewis the coronavirus pandemic, finding the issue should be addressed at the trial court level first. Jenner & Block K&L Gates FDA Slaps Tighter Controls On COVID-19 Antibody Tests Katten The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that commercial Kelley Drye manufacturers of antibody tests for COVID-19 will now be required to submit emergency use authorization requests, a change from a March policy that had Kilpatrick Townsend more lax oversight for the tests. Kirkland & Ellis Latham & Watkins Wages, COVID-19 Tests Pose Hurdles As Employers Reopen Levenfeld Pearlstein As states begin to allow businesses to unlock their doors, experts say that Linklaters complying with wage-and-hour laws and administering COVID-19 tests on workers are two areas in which employers rushing to put the pandemic behind Littler Mendelson them are likely to stumble out of the gate. Locke Lord Loeb & Loeb J.Crew Just First In Expected Flood Of Retail Bankruptcies Lowenstein Sandler Clothing retailer J.Crew has become the first large retailer to succumb to the Manatt Phelps challenges thrust upon the industry as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, but bankruptcy and industry professionals say it won't be the last, as mounting Marshall Dennehey lease obligations may soon outstrip the patience of landlords. Mayer Brown McDermott Will JCPenney Stalls Sephora Split Over COVID-19 Furloughs McKool Smith JCPenney is asking a Texas federal court to stop Sephora from pulling out of Mintz Levin a long-term agreement to operate mini-stores in hundreds of JCPenney locations after the retailers butted heads about employee furloughs and how Morgan Lewis to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. Morrison & Foerster Munger Tulles COVID-19 Closures Send Gold's Gym Into Ch. 11 Nelson Mullins Fitness chain Gold's Gym International filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court Monday, saying COVID-19 closures had spurred the Nixon Peabody company into implementing a prenegotiated restructuring plan. Norton Rose Ogletree Deakins EFTA00032894 Coping With A Pandemic: Purple Campaign's Ally Coll Orrick As society continues to adapt to COVID-19, Law360 is sharing reactions from Paul Hastings around the business and legal community. Today's perspective comes from Paul Weiss Washington, D.C.-based Ally Coll, president and co-founder of The Purple Pepper Hamilton Campaign. Phillips Nizer EXPERT ANALYSIS Pillsbury Winthrop Pryor Cashman Early Pandemic-Related Shifts We're Seeing In Legal Finance Quarles & Brady As law firms chart their paths forward during these unsettled times, litigation Reed Smith funders are already observing changes in the types of products firms are seeking, such as an increase in one-off case funding requests, says Eric Rivkin Radler Blinderman at Therium. Ropes & Gray Saul Ewing COVID-19 Gives Congress Greater Incentive To Pass SAFE Act Schiff Hardin The SAFE Banking Act provides a cost-free way for Congress to buoy the Schulte Roth legal cannabis industry by loosening some of the financial impediments the product's federal status imposes on state-legal businesses, say attorneys at Seyfarth Shaw Benesch. 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