{"efta_number": "EFTA00032893", "page_count": 4, "url": "https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00032893", "pdf_url": "https://epstein-data.com/pdf/EFTA00032893.pdf", "pages": [{"efta_number": "EFTA00032893", "page_number": 0, "text_content": "From: Securities Law360 <newsglaw360.com> \nTo: \nSubject: Coronavirus: Your Afternoon Briefing \nDate: Tue, 05 May 2020 18:17:59 +0000 \nti.aw360 Special \nReport \nCoronavirus Special Newsletter \nTuesday, May 5, 2020 \nFollow Law360 \nTOP NEWS \nWhat GCs Want From Outside Counsel As Virus Rages On \nSome general counsel and law firms are working together to share the burden \nof the COVID-19 outbreak, agreeing on discounts, alternative fee \narrangements or extensions on legal bills to help weather the financial storm. \nLegal Work Has Plummeted And Lawyers Are Stressed \nThe number of new legal matters has fallen significantly during the first four \nmonths of 2020 compared to the previous year as the world reels from the \ncoronavirus pandemic, and many lawyers are now anxious about the success \nof their practices, research released Monday shows. \nCoronavirus: How Law Firms Are Handling The Downturn \nUPDATED May 5, 2020, 1:25 PM EDT I The spreading coronavirus pandemic \nhas upended the legal industry, forcing firms to cut salaries, lay off attorneys \nand make changes to summer associate programs. Here is a roundup of how \nlaw firms are responding. \nNixon Peabody Cancels Summer Program Without Job Pledge \nNixon Peabody LLP confirmed Monday that it has canceled its 2020 summer \nassociate program, and was the first firm to do so without also promising to \nextend job offers to the second-year law students affected. \nPillsbury Cuts Pay For Attys, Staff In Face Of Pandemic \nPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has joined the ranks of law firms rolling \nout cost-saving measures during the COVID-19 pandemic, confirming \nMonday that it has made pay cuts in its U.S. offices to help shoulder the \neconomic effects of the crisis. \nLiberals Tell Senate GOP To Focus On Pandemic, Not Judges \nAs the full Senate convened in Washington for the first time since March, left-\nleaning civil rights groups on Monday urged Republicans to stop processing \nPresident Donald Trump's judicial nominees, starting with a confirmation \nhearing set for Wednesday. \nCLOSINGS AND RESTRICTIONS \nCoronavirus: The Latest Court Closures And Restrictions \nUPDATED May 5, 2020, 1:55 PM EDT I As courts across the country take \nmeasures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, some are restricting \naccess and altering their procedures. Here is a roundup of changes. \nLAW FIRMS \nAkerman LLP \nAllen & Overy \nArent Fox \nArnold & Porter \nBaker Botts \nBaker Donelson \nBaker McKenzie \nBallard Spahr \nBarack Ferrazzano \nBelkin Burden \nBenesch Friedlander \nBlank Rome \nBrown Rudnick \nBryan Cave Leighton Paisner \nBuchanan Ingersoll \nCadwalader Wickersham \nCahill Gordon \nCleary Gottlieb \nClifford Chance \nCooley \nCovington & Burling \nCozen O'Connor \nCravath Swaine \nCrowell & Moring \nDAC Beachcroft \nDLA Piper \nDavis & Gilbert LLP \nDavis Wright Tremaine \nDebevoise & Plimpton \nDechert \nDentons \nDickinson Wright \nDinsmore & Shohl \nDorsey & Whitney \nDuane Morris \nEFTA00032893\n", "char_count": 2949}, {"efta_number": "EFTA00032893", "page_number": 1, "text_content": "Coronavirus: The Latest EU Court Closures And Restrictions \nUPDATED May 5, 2020, 11:40AM GMT I As courts across the region take \nmeasures to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, some are restricting \naccess and altering their procedures. Here is a roundup of changes. \nUK Judiciary Mulls Radical Measures To Resume Jury Trials \nEngland's judiciary is under pressure to resume jury trials amid a mounting \nbacklog of criminal cases that risks swamping the criminal justice system, but \nlawyers are at odds over how far the courts should go to get juries seated \nagain. \nFla. Extends Jury Trial Suspension Until July \nFlorida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady on Monday extended \nthe suspension of jury trials in Florida state courts until July 2 and expanded \nthe list of court proceedings that will be held remotely during the coronavirus \npandemic. \nWHAT IT MEANS FOR ATTORNEYS \nUSPTO Unveils Virus Patent Platform, EPO Extends Deadlines \nThe U.S. Patent and Trademark Office launched a new online marketplace \nMonday for patents related to COVID-19, while its European counterpart said \nit is extending certain deadlines until next month due to the pandemic. \nTexas Justices Won't Review Coronavirus Shutdown Orders \nThe Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a challenge brought \nby 11 businesses fighting what they called -unsupportable\" edicts and \nexecutive orders that city and county officials made to limit businesses during \nthe coronavirus pandemic, finding the issue should be addressed at the trial \ncourt level first. \nFDA Slaps Tighter Controls On COVID-19 Antibody Tests \nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that commercial \nmanufacturers of antibody tests for COVID-19 will now be required to submit \nemergency use authorization requests, a change from a March policy that had \nmore lax oversight for the tests. \nWages, COVID-19 Tests Pose Hurdles As Employers Reopen \nAs states begin to allow businesses to unlock their doors, experts say that \ncomplying with wage-and-hour laws and administering COVID-19 tests on \nworkers are two areas in which employers rushing to put the pandemic behind \nthem are likely to stumble out of the gate. \nJ.Crew Just First In Expected Flood Of Retail Bankruptcies \nClothing retailer J.Crew has become the first large retailer to succumb to the \nchallenges thrust upon the industry as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, but \nbankruptcy and industry professionals say it won't be the last, as mounting \nlease obligations may soon outstrip the patience of landlords. \nJCPenney Stalls Sephora Split Over COVID-19 Furloughs \nJCPenney is asking a Texas federal court to stop Sephora from pulling out of \na long-term agreement to operate mini-stores in hundreds of JCPenney \nlocations after the retailers butted heads about employee furloughs and how \nto reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic. \nCOVID-19 Closures Send Gold's Gym Into Ch. 11 \nFitness chain Gold's Gym International filed for Chapter 11 protection in a \nTexas bankruptcy court Monday, saying COVID-19 closures had spurred the \ncompany into implementing a prenegotiated restructuring plan. \nDykema Gossett \nEckert Seamans \nEdelson PC \nEpstein Becker Green \nEversheds Sutherland \nFaegre Drinker \nFisher Phillips \nFoley & Lardner \nFox Rothschild \nFragomen Del Rey \nFried Frank \nFross Zelnick \nGibson Dunn \nGoldberg Segalla \nGoodwin \nGreenberg Traurig \nGreenspoon Marder \nHinshaw & Culbertson \nHodgson Russ \nHogan Lovells \nHueston Hennigan \nHusch Blackwell \nIrell & Manella \nJackson Lewis \nJenner & Block \nK&L Gates \nKatten \nKelley Drye \nKilpatrick Townsend \nKirkland & Ellis \nLatham & Watkins \nLevenfeld Pearlstein \nLinklaters \nLittler Mendelson \nLocke Lord \nLoeb & Loeb \nLowenstein Sandler \nManatt Phelps \nMarshall Dennehey \nMayer Brown \nMcDermott Will \nMcKool Smith \nMintz Levin \nMorgan Lewis \nMorrison & Foerster \nMunger Tulles \nNelson Mullins \nNixon Peabody \nNorton Rose \nOgletree Deakins \nEFTA00032894\n", "char_count": 3959}, {"efta_number": "EFTA00032893", "page_number": 2, "text_content": "Coping With A Pandemic: Purple Campaign's Ally Coll \nAs society continues to adapt to COVID-19, Law360 is sharing reactions from \naround the business and legal community. Today's perspective comes from \nWashington, D.C.-based Ally Coll, president and co-founder of The Purple \nCampaign. \nEXPERT ANALYSIS \nEarly Pandemic-Related Shifts We're Seeing In Legal Finance \nAs law firms chart their paths forward during these unsettled times, litigation \nfunders are already observing changes in the types of products firms are \nseeking, such as an increase in one-off case funding requests, says Eric \nBlinderman at Therium. \nCOVID-19 Gives Congress Greater Incentive To Pass SAFE Act \nThe SAFE Banking Act provides a cost-free way for Congress to buoy the \nlegal cannabis industry by loosening some of the financial impediments the \nproduct's federal status imposes on state-legal businesses, say attorneys at \nBenesch. \nOrrick \nPaul Hastings \nPaul Weiss \nPepper Hamilton \nPhillips Nizer \nPillsbury Winthrop \nPryor Cashman \nQuarles & Brady \nReed Smith \nRivkin Radler \nRopes & Gray \nSaul Ewing \nSchiff Hardin \nSchulte Roth \nSeyfarth Shaw \nShearman & Sterling \nSheppard Mullin \nShook Hardy \nSidley Austin \nSkadden \nSlaughter and May \nSpain Spain \nSquire Patton Boggs \nTaft Stettinius \nTroutman Sanders \nTucker Ellis \nVenable LLP \nVinson & Elkins \nWilliams & Connolly \nWilson Sonsini \nWinston & Strawn \nWomble Bond Dickinson \nCOMPANIES \nAmazon.com Inc. \nAmerican Bar Association \nCedar Realty Trust Inc. \nGoFundMe Inc. \nGold's Gym International Inc. \nIntegrity Staffing Solutions \nJ.C. Penney Co. Inc. \nJ.Crew Group Inc. \nNASDAQ Inc. \nNational Association for the \nAdvancement of Colored People \nNeiman Marcus Group \nPerspecta Inc. \nSBM Offshore NV \nSephora SA \nThe Bank of New York Mellon \nCorp. \nEFTA00032895\n", "char_count": 1802}, {"efta_number": "EFTA00032893", "page_number": 3, "text_content": "Themis Solutions Inc. \nTherium Capital Management Ltd. \nTwitter Inc. \nWebMD LLC \nGOVERNMENT AGENCIES \nCenters for Disease Control and \nPrevention \nEqual Employment Opportunity \nCommission \nEuropean Union \nFederal Deposit Insurance Corp. \nFlorida Supreme Court \nFood and Drug Administration \nGeorgia Supreme Court \nNuclear Regulatory Commission \nSerious Fraud Office \nSmall Business Administration \nTexas Supreme Court \nU.S. Court of Appeals for the \nFederal Circuit \nU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth \nCircuit \nU.S. Department of Labor \nU.S. District Court for the Eastern \nDistrict of Texas \nU.S. House of Representatives \nU.S. Patent and Trademark Office \nU.S. Senate \nU.S. Supreme Court \nNot sure if your firm subscribes? 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