This installment of How We Work Now is with copyright lawyer Christine Lepera, a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp.
], but I wrote a Rule 50 motion and she hadn't canceled the oral hearing or changed it to a telephonic appearance, so I flew out there. I think Monday morning, which is when the hearing was, we got a call from the clerk saying we could do the hearing telephonically.
I stayed in the city for the first 10 days, but with everyone working remotely I came to my country house in Woodstock. It’s been strange upstate. There have been no issues with groceries or other supplies. It's completely open in the sense that there's so much room to go outside. So I'm very lucky and I can go hiking in the woods and there are streams and my dog, Apache, a rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback, can go swimming. So that's been great.
I am overseeing a virtual mediation next week and suspect that will be a thing that will start becoming more common as we continue going forward this year. As you know, the courts in New York are clearly not open for non-essential matters and I'm not seeing that happen anytime soon. Besides not having colleagues that you would meet with and see face-to-face, the virtual practice of law has some limitations and complications. With virtual depositions there are concerns about how you communicate with your clients. Because if you're not in the same room, you have to establish some sort of a connection separate and apart, whether through audio or separate video, so that you can have private consultations with your client.
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