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Legal Tech Companies Push Forward Despite Virus Disruption: Legal tech vendors say they are unbowed in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak and are so far keeping new product releases on schedule despite volatile markets and disruptions in how their law firm and corporate clients operate. But for now, many in legal tech—especially larger, well-established companies—say disruptions to the pipeline to develop and implement legal technology caused by COVID-19 seem far away.

New York Allows Video Notarization for Estate Planning as Social Distancing Becomes Norm: It is now possible to execute trusts (both irrevocable and revocable trusts) in New York through the use of video notary acknowledgment. Pursuant to Executive Order No. 202.7 signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 19, 2020, a notary sitting in New York may take the acknowledgment of a trust creator who is also located in New York through the use of video communication technology.