Could Mitch McConnell Help Speed Up The Return Of Live Sports?

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The State of Texas is planning to reopen businesses such as restaurants, theaters and malls as early as May 1. Restaurants in the State of Tennessee are already permitted to serve dine-in customers as of April 27. Meanwhile, many sports fans wait with anticipation for news surrounding when their favorite professional athletes will return to play.

Could a national effort to insulate employers from employee lawsuits related to contracting coronavirus speed up the return to play for many athletes?

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell intends to bring the Senate back into session on May 4 and declared that a priority is to implement protections for employers who want to get back to work. McConnell’s plan is being referred to as a “liability shield” that not only protects employers against coronavirus-related lawsuits filed by employees, but also customers.

Sports leagues and teams will be following McConnell’s movement very closely.

“Before we start sending additional money down to states and localities, I want to make sure we protect the people we’ve already sent assistance to who are going to be set up for an avalanche of lawsuits if we don’t act,” said McConnell, who added that the country will be afraid to open up if employers are concerned that they will be sued.

Whether team and league executives will admit it or not, they are absolutely concerned about the potential of said avalanche of lawsuits. It is undoubtedly playing a large role with regard to plans to resume play of sporting events in the United States.

The National Hockey League and National Basketball Association regular seasons were being played when COVID-19 concerns spread across the United States, causing each league to indefinitely suspend their operations. Major League Baseball was about to host its annual Spring Training in Florida and Arizona followed by the start of its regular season. Spring Training was scrapped and the start of the season delayed, with no clear date as to when executives will feel comfortable allowing players onto the field and fans in the seats.

A clear concern for sports leagues and teams surrounds the legal exposure they will invite by rushing to allow fans into stadiums and arenas without a proven COVID-19 cure and prior to the release of a coronavirus vaccine. The leagues and teams need to first feel confidence in allowing their employee athletes onto the fields, courts and ice before even considering having fans in attendance.

On April 27, the NBA sent out a memorandum highlighting that teams may soon be able to conduct limited, individual workouts in cities that are not subject to government restrictions. It is targeting a date of no earlier than May 8 as the commencement date for such a change in rules, and it would come with many restrictions including that no more than four players are permitted at a facility at any one time and that group activities like practices and scrimmages remain prohibited.

While no professional sports team will benefit from federal assistance connected to the Payroll Protection Program (the Los Angeles Lakers was the only franchise to apply and receive benefits, which are being returned), McConnell’s comments could be an important consideration for those in control of sports in the United States. If his “liability shield” is established, then it could speed up the return of sports to the joy of many.


Darren Heitner is the founder of Heitner Legal. He is the author of How to Play the Game: What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know, published by the American Bar Association, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. You can reach him by email at heitner@gmail.com and follow him on Twitter at @DarrenHeitner.

More Good News From Biglaw Firms Not Cutting Back

It’s been a few weeks since we did a roundup of firms that aren’t implementing austerity measures and with bad news dominating our coverage, we thought it was time to remind everyone out there that not every firm finds themselves struggling during the downturn. Frankly, we don’t get enough of these stories, so if your firm has issued a note of reassurance, let us know by email so we can acknowledge the firms that weren’t living on the knife’s edge of margins. We’ll be updating this piece as we see stuff.

Covington & Burling: The firm sent out a video explaining that there are no current plans to conduct either layoffs or compensation cuts to attorneys or staff and that the firm is well-positioned to weather an economic downturn. The message went further and reminded everyone that the firm didn’t need to perform any cutbacks during the last financial crisis, bolstering its credibility on this point.

Sidley: The firm was early on the work-from-home train and carried that over to resisting austerity measures. No layoffs or cuts on the horizon at this point. Additionally, the firm says it will pay summer associates for the number of weeks they agreed to work at Sidley and continue to offer a summer program even if it has to be online.

Are there other firms who have reassured attorneys that we haven’t heard about yet? Send them in! Let’s have some good news around here.

Earlier: The Biglaw Firms Rolling Out Good News, For Now


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Stymied In Effort To Steer Small-Business Loans To Favored Clients (Or Anyone Else), Bankers Get Huffy

Biglaw Firm Moves To Phase 2 Of COVID-19 Austerity Measures

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney has already made some COVID-19 inspired cost-cutting moves. Salaries at the firm have been cut, but that doesn’t seem to be the end of the austerity measures.

One tipster reported being given the pay cut as previously announced, then shortly after they were “terminated due to a workforce reduction.” Another said, “They are conducting layoffs, just not announcing them.”

When asked for comment, Joseph A. Dougherty, CEO and Managing Director of the firm, confirmed that some staff were furloughed and laid out their plan for summer associates and the new class of associates but made no mention of any other layoffs:

As you have previously reported, several weeks ago Buchanan temporarily adjusted compensation across all levels and furloughed a very limited number of administrative staff. We look forward to bringing these individuals back when the pandemic subsides. This week, we announced we are shortening our 2020 summer associate program to four weeks and will be offering each second year summer associate an offer for full time employment in 2021. While we expect to welcome our summer associates to our offices in July, we are fully prepared to provide an excellent experience remotely, if need be. In addition, we are deferring the start of our Fall first year associate class to January 2021. These prudent decisions reflect our commitment to our clients, our communities and our future talent.

Sounds like folks at the firm have a different perspective than management. So what’s really going on at the firm? Buchanan associates, feel free to sound off by email, by text message (646-820-8477), or by tweet (@ATLblog). A fun or insightful response — we’ll keep you anonymous — could find its way into an update to this story.

If your firm or organization is slashing salaries, closing its doors, or reducing the ranks of its lawyers or staff, whether through open layoffs, stealth layoffs, or voluntary buyouts, please don’t hesitate to let us know. Our vast network of tipsters is part of what makes Above the Law thrive. You can email us or text us (646-820-8477).

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Judge Rejects Uncontested Continuance Request From Attorney With COVID-19

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Honestly, when America entered the lockdown era, I figured we’d eventually get a story about some hyper-aggressive jackhole attorney refusing to concede to a continuance just because the other side was struck down with COVID-19. It seemed inevitable since petty, overcompensating attorneys far outnumber even asymptomatic carriers in this country. What I never saw coming was a judge shooting down an uncontested request from someone laid up with COVID-19.

Judge Greg Guidry is one of those newcomers to the federal bench rammed through the Judiciary Committee on a party line vote and now sits in the Eastern District of Louisiana. Earlier this month, an attorney filed a motion that began:

For the week prior to March 27, 2020, counsel was experiencing fevers of between 102 degrees to 104 degrees Fahrenheit. On March 27, 2020, undersigned counsel for Fieldwood was hospitalized with the Covid-19 virus. On April 1, 2020, counsel was discharged from the hospital. Nevertheless, doctor’s orders were for counsel to self-quarantine through the end of April 2020.

Well… yeah. That seems pretty serious. As a backdrop, the governor of Louisiana issued a stay-at-home order through at least the end of April — and since the filing of this motion, that order has been extended to May 15 — further complicating discovery. Our stricken counsel moved, after securing the consent of all parties, to put off the trial scheduled for July to some mutually agreed better time.

This seems entirely reasonable. Therefore, Judge Guidry responds…

The Court is aware of health concerns relating to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) and expects the parties to follow the guidance provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public health authorities. However, the Court notes this case has been pending since May 31, 2017 and finds a continuance in this case is not warranted at this time.

Someone really wants this case off their newly inherited calendar, don’t they? Putting aside the lunacy of telling a COVID patient to suck it up and keep taking depositions, the idea that a trial will really be happening in July is comically wishful. This isn’t a Judge Judy episode where trial prep can be slapped together over the weekend either… it’s been on the calendar since 2017 for a reason. Assuming nothing changes between now and trial, this is going to be a hefty ordeal.

It turns out that Judge Guidry’s defiance in the face of the virus only lasted six days. Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown issued a general order instructing her judges to put off trials until at least August, prompting Judge Guidry to issue a curt update:

Considering the COVID-19 General Order 20-6: Amendment to General Order 20-2 to Extend Certain Deadlines, and COVID-19 General Order 20-2: March 16, 2020, Trials, In- Person Hearings & Conferences Cont. to May 1, 20202; IT IS ORDERED that the jury trial scheduled for July 13, 2020 is CONTINUED to commence the week beginning Monday, August 3, 2020 at 9:30 a.m.

At least the common sense result prevailed. Getting an extra couple of weeks may not sound like much, but enterprising counsel can accomplish a lot with an extra two weeks.

Still, no matter how irritating a case may be to preside over, you can’t punish them for getting sick.


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The COVID Clause: Adding A Term To Surrogacy Contracts

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Before intended parents can expand their family through surrogacy, they have to enter into a contractual agreement with a gestational carrier, or surrogate, who physically carries the baby. The surrogacy contract spells out the specific terms of the arrangement, like the amount of compensation, who covers certain expenses, what to do in unforeseen circumstances, and even minutiae like whether the surrogate is allowed to drink coffee or travel to certain places. (Now is probably a bad time to visit New York.)

As you can guess, COVID-19 is causing lawyers to change some of the standard contractual provisions in these arrangements. COVID-19 has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and derailed the world as we know it. Even basic fertility treatments and surrogacy were put on hold for a while, as we sheltered in place and socially distanced ourselves. And, while we know this is far from over (unless maybe you are New Zealand), fertility clinics have started to resume, or are preparing to resume, treatments. I’m cautiously optimistic that this is good news for intended parents and surrogates alike.

Of course, surrogacy contracts, like most contracts, often contain provisions about how to handle worst-case situations. What if the surrogate is placed on life support during the pregnancy? What if the intended parents both die during the process? And, less extreme, what if the surrogate eats deli meat that has not been heated above 165 degrees?

The pandemic has brought to light new issues, and some old ones, that have become more prevalent. Now, certain “worst-case scenarios” or “unlikely situations” have become much more likely, and some new situations have arisen that we never imagined. Here are a few areas to consider when thinking about contract overhauls and updates in light of the new reality, however long this may last.

Medical Unknowns. While some reports have been hopeful indicating that the novel coronavirus is unlikely to be transmitted vertically in pregnancy (so if surrogate has it, baby is not likely to get it during the pregnancy), other, scarier reports indicate that vertical transmission could be a concern. And while some experts have reported that pregnant women may face no higher risk than nonpregnant pople when it comes to the effects of the virus, others indicate that there may be greater risk for a pregnant woman. The data is sparse, unsurprisingly, and there is much we do not know yet.

For purposes of the contract, intended parents and surrogates entering into a surrogacy arrangement need to fully acknowledge that there are a lot more unknowns than usual, and major ones at that. Are there long-term effects of contracting COVID-19 while pregnant? To the surrogate or to the child? Contracts need to contemplate the new assumptions of risk of the parties, and to think carefully about risk allocation.

Travel and Restricted Activity. Most surrogacy contracts already contemplate that the surrogate will give up some rights to travel. Intended parents do not want a surrogate heading into an unfriendly jurisdiction where parental recognition could be a problem, or where out-of-network medical costs could skyrocket. Of course, unrelated to surrogacy, most of us are currently experiencing severe travel restrictions under local or state lock-downs and international travel bans. Breaching those restrictions, with a few exceptions, so far has had little consequences or penalties.

A surrogacy contract may need to consider these consequences in more depth. Intended parents will want their growing child protected as much as possible. And that likely means a surrogate following shelter-in-place and social distancing orders and recommendations. If a surrogate is bound to those in the contract, acting otherwise (like heading to a crowded beach during a shelter-in-place order) may mean a breach of contract, with possible damages.

Back-Up Plans for Care of Child. While it is standard procedure to name a back-up guardian should something happen to the intended parents during the pregnancy, those back-up plans, and the back-up plans to the back-up plans, have become increasingly crucial. Prior to the pandemic, there was the occasional intended parent who didn’t make the birth, such as when a kiddo made an earlier-than-expected appearance in the world. Now, despite intended parents’ best intentions and best efforts to be at the birth and to be there to care for their child, many are stuck thousands of miles away. Travel bans are causing international intended parents to be denied entry or to be unable to book a flight to get them to the birth location. In this recent episode of the podcast I Want To Put A Baby In You, Attorney Robin Pope of Oregon talked of numerous stranded intended parents either unable to make it to their child or unable to return home with their child, including the situation of a Chinese intended parent whose baby was born in February, but who still has been unable to make it to the United States to be joined with his child!

Contracts now need to include much more extensive back-up plans. Who will take care of the baby if the parents are unable to make it? For a few days? What about a few months or longer? What if the back-up carer contracts COVID-19 and becomes unavailable? How will medical and other key decisions be made? How will expenses be handled? While these fears were less likely to materialize in the past, now they must be confronted in literally every contract.

Presence in Delivery Room. The traditional question is: If only one person is allowed in the room with the surrogate for delivery, such as in the case of a C-section, will that person be her spouse/support person or an intended parent? Now, this question is being taken to another level. Many birthing persons are not allowed to have anyone (other than medical personnel) in the room with them. And, of course, if any of the candidates to be present have been exposed to the virus or check certain higher-risk criteria, they may not be allowed in the hospital at all. Time for more back-up plans.

Anticipating Delays. Many contracts contemplate naturally expiring if no transfer or pregnancy occurs within 12 months of the contract’s effective date. Given interruptions in services, the parties may want to reconsider how long they are willing to be committed to this process with each other if significant delays occur.

Hopefully, in less time than feared, COVID-19 clauses will go the way of the old Zika ones. Remember Zika? Scary effects, but oh boy were those simpler times. Some day we may think, “Oh, right. I remember when COVID-19 was a big deal. I wonder if anyone gets that anymore? Good thing the schools and bars are open.” Wishful thinking. Until then, attorneys should take extra steps to prepare clients to be flexible and expect the unexpected.


Ellen Trachman is the Managing Attorney of Trachman Law Center, LLC, a Denver-based law firm specializing in assisted reproductive technology law, and co-host of the podcast I Want To Put A Baby In You. You can reach her at babies@abovethelaw.com.

Without Layoffs Or Salary Cuts, Some Biglaw Firms May Not Survive COVID-19

I don’t see how all 81 of the low-margin, no-comp-cut, firms can survive. Let’s say either the data are wrong, or the revenue outlook is stronger, for a half of these firms. That would mean 40 firms come under partner departure pressure. If departures take hold at, say, just a third of these firms then, in round numbers, ten to fifteen firms will go under.

Hugh A. Simons, formerly a senior partner and executive committee member at The Boston Consulting Group and chief operating officer and policy committee member at Ropes & Gray, arguing that more Biglaw firms need to cut salaries or conduct layoffs, because, as he notes in his well-reasoned essay, “Absent significant movement, and soon, this will not end well.”


Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

Job Hunting In A Terrible Job Market

If you are graduating this May, you have my deepest sympathies. You are graduating at a time when most of the world is economically frozen. Many of you will not get your first-choice jobs. Others will not get jobs at all. To make things worse, your graduation ceremonies are either put on hold or canceled altogether. You and your loved ones cannot celebrate at the fanciest restaurant in town as every restaurant is closed. Your graduation present will probably be a box of extra-soft Charmin and a set of face masks that a family member waited in line since 5 a.m. to get.

I understand. I understand too well actually. I graduated college right before the internet bubble burst. I graduated with excellent grades at a top tax LLM program. I was a finalist at an ABA national tax competition and was published at a top tax journal. So I thought I had a shot at one of the Big 4 accounting firms, a tax court clerkship, or possibly a major law firm. But I graduated in 2007 right when the housing crisis began. I didn’t get one interview. Some of the firms at least had the courtesy to send me a rejection letter on their nice firm letterhead.

So you, like myself, are a victim of bad timing. After graduation, you may end up doing something else after graduation. In the job market, you will be competing for jobs with experienced lawyers who have been laid off. If the effects of the pandemic continue, you may compete for jobs with new graduates and recruiters will wonder why you had an employment gap for so long. While they may claim to understand that you did what you had to do because of the pandemic, I suspect some will think you are hiding something. Or it is easier for them to find their purple squirrel.

The traditional method of job searching is tedious, frustrating, and discouraging in a bad job market. You will apply to many jobs and will get rejected by all of them. This is because, if you can see a job opening, so can many others and you will be competing against them. From the employer’s perspective, they barely know most of the job applicants other than what’s on their resumes. So they are naturally going to look first at where you got your degree and your recent work experience. The reality is that most lawyers don’t know how to properly select a good candidate. Your goal should be to have the lawyers think of you before they resort to the classifieds or to contract lawyers.

Your best bet is to join a local lawyers’ group on social media such as Facebook or LinkedIn. You can find multiple groups that fit your interests. Right now, a lot of lawyers and other professionals have more free time and are spending their time in these virtual groups. Participate in the conversations and try to connect with a few members. Try to have the members get to know you a bit before announcing your interest in a job. Once they know you, they will remember you when they see a possible opening in the future.

Also, now that this pandemic has popularized virtual meetings, it is easier to attend these meetings without leaving home. And many groups are offering them for free. So try to attend as many as possible. Wear business-appropriate attire. And if you are attending in your home, make sure that you don’t show a messy room or inappropriate photos or language in the background.

Second, read up on the areas of law that you are interested in. Hopefully your law school will give alumni free access to the school library’s digital subscriptions. If they don’t, demand it. Isn’t this is what you paid $50,000 per year for? Shouldn’t they take some minimal steps to help you pay your $300,000-plus in student loans? Otherwise, your school’s law library is going to waste.

Lastly, use this opportunity to help people and to make solid connections. You are not the only one hurting. Help them in their time of need. Most will remember what you did for them and will eventually return the favor. They will refer potential clients to you or send you job leads and give strong testimonials. Make friends you can trust. You may end up starting a law firm or a start-up business together.

A bad job market will test your grit, persistence, and creativity. Do what you have to do to survive and to help others along the way. You may not see immediate results but with consistency and time, people will reach out to you with reliable job leads. Just know that if you can make it through this recession, chances are good that you’ll survive the next recession too.

P.S. If people are still ignoring you, reach out to me. I’ll be happy to chat with you and help.


Steven Chung is a tax attorney in Los Angeles, California. He helps people with basic tax planning and resolve tax disputes. He is also sympathetic to people with large student loans. He can be reached via email at sachimalbe@excite.com. Or you can connect with him on Twitter (@stevenchung) and connect with him on LinkedIn.

Kirkland & Ellis Ripped In Blistering Benchslap

The most straightforward dispute in the legal recruiting world involves a recruiter jumping from one agency to another and along the way allegedly appropriates trade secrets and non-solicitation agreements. The former employer then — if not resolved amicably — has to file a lawsuit and lay out all the recruiting activity the ex-employee has been doing in breach of these obligations to the former firm. Pretty simple, right?

That’s what Kinney Recruiting thought too.[1] They sued a former employee, who refused to comply with discovery, arguing that he didn’t control the documents of the supposed new firm even though the domain name of the new company was his name and he signs all of their contracts. Given this intransigence, Kinney also subpoenaed Kirkland & Ellis, where the former employee allegedly placed people in breach of the obligations to Kinney. Also pretty simple.

K&E decided to make it difficult.

First, they objected to service. Then, after it was re-served, partner Will Pruitt objected to the subpoena, saying Kinney needed to get everything from the former employee. Kinney offered to narrow the subpoena but explained that they needed these relatively easy to procure documents because the defendant was not complying with discovery. After refusing to cooperate with a narrower request — twice — Kirkland also threatened to seek fees if Kinney filed a motion to compel. After one more, unanswered, plea for cooperation, Kinney filed a motion to compel.

K&E replied by claiming to already be working on the request and asking that the motion be dropped. Kinney, having not been born yesterday, refused to drop the motion until K&E produced the documents. He even offered to drop the motion if K&E would just stipulate that they were trying to comply, but Pruitt refused to even do that and instead responded to the motion to compel.

United States Magistrate Judge Andrew W. Austin — who sits in Austin, which one can only assume is some kind of power-up — was not pleased with Kirkland’s conduct. The line “petty, technical, [and] overly-argumentative” comes up:

The Court could not be more disappointed with the manner in which K&E has handled this subpoena. Pruitt’s petty, technical, overly-argumentative emails are a study in what is wrong with civil discovery in our court system today. The subpoena at issue sought a very small amount of uncontroversial information. None of it was privileged or confidential. MWK had served similar subpoenas on other “BigLaw” firms, all of which produced documents without objection. K&E’s approach, however, was to evade, complain, and refuse. The fact that these actions were taken by a law firm makes it all the more frustrating. If anyone should know better than to act this way one would think it would be a law firm that touts itself as having “lawyers [who] employ innovative pragmatic strategies.” There was not a single thing that K&E did to respond to this subpoena that was “pragmatic.” Despite the countless hours Pruitt spent writing emails, K&E eventually produced the requested documents—but it forced MWK to file a motion to compel before it did so. Pruitt could have saved K&E, as well as MWK, thousands of dollars in attorney time by being cooperative up front. Instead, he chose to fight, forcing all parties, the Court included, to expend resources unnecessarily.

Yikes. This would be a scathing enough rebuke, but Kirkland & Ellis had already decided to ask for more having followed through on Pruitt’s original threat to seek fees for responding to the motion to compel, which Magistrate Austin found particularly galling:

But this is not the end of things. Having chosen the stubborn route, K&E also audaciously requests that the Court award it the attorney’s fees it incurred in picking this fight. Recall that in the first week of February, Kinney offered to accept as sufficient exactly what K&E finally produced two months later. K&E refused, and instead forced Kinney to wait two months, write a dozen more emails, and then file a motion to compel. Kinney even repeated that same offer multiple times before he filed the motion. Yet K&E somehow thinks that it should be awarded attorney’s fees. Apparently it believes obstinance is something worth rewarding. Far from it. If anything, K&E should count itself lucky that MWK did not request fees from K&E, as the Court would have been inclined to grant them. Because MWK did not, the Court will express its disapproval of K&E’s actions only in words and not dollars. Either way, K&E should be embarrassed.

The lesson here is when a party is bending over backward to make compliance as painless as possible, just go ahead and comply. Entities like K&E always worry about the precedent they might set complying third-party subpoenas willy-nilly, but rather than fight it, that’s all the more reason to reach out to a cooperative party and come up with some sort of stipulation to hand over non-privileged and non-confidential documents voluntarily.

It’s pretty simple.


[1] The party to the case is MWK Recruiting, but the dispute is about an employee of the more familiar Kinney Recruiting. By means of full disclosure, Kinney is a longtime advertiser on this site, but that doesn’t really factor into our analysis here.

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