The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on all of us. Most tragically, it has already resulted in the deaths of more than 400,000 people around the world, including more than 100,000 Americans, of whom more than 30,000 were our fellow New Yorkers. The pandemic - and the global stay-at-home orders put in place to control it - have also caused widespread economic destruction, with businesses failing and millions in America and around the world out of work on a scale not seen since the 1930s. In addition to this devastating human and economic toll, the pandemic has fundamentally changed, in countless ways, the manner in which we live our lives: the way we socialize, the way we educate our children, and, of course, the way we work.

Originally published in New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer: Viral Changes in ADR During the Pandemic - Summer 2020, Vol. 13, No. 2.