It appears that the COVID-19 pandemic has tested, informed, and may even be changing the legal landscape. There are many questions that have been raised with it: how can meeting the needs of the most vulnerable populations be met? How do different regulations both help and hinder people and businesses? What about competing issues - such as free speech and public health? The Pandemic will force the legal community to relook at certain laws and how they might change.
Many attorneys have varying thoughts on this issue, but one thing is clear: the consequences of the virus will be extensive, unpredictable, and extraordinarily powerful.