10/07/2022
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WERE LARGE ROOMS. THEY JUST GOT BIGGER
Courtrooms have always been a special place for lawyers and the practice of law. Not based upon what matters were heard, but upon the importance the legal system places on Courtrooms as the social space in which modern society settles disputes. No trial by combat, but the reasoned deliberation upon the law applied to the facts.
The pandemic brought about changes, welcomed, forced, or otherwise. The practice of law, and the Courts, didn’t escape unchanged. Maricopa county superior Court ‘teamed’ (Sorry, pun intended) with Microsoft to harness the power of technology to build virtual courtrooms in which judges, lawyers, parties, witnesses, evidence, exhibits, all came together. Many welcomed the changes, many did not.
This blog is about one lawyer’s journey through this changing landscape. Upfront confession, I believe the change is good for the legal profession and for the litigants who find themselves caught up in the once arcane system that is now opening to the modern world. I believe the change is for the better. Law doesn’t happen in offices and courtrooms anymore. It happens everywhere.
