Fortunately not in real life, but a simulation at the Legal Preparedness for Pandemic Flu conference in San Francisco:
“A hypothetical focusing on a potential avian flu outbreak on a college campus located in a densely populated urban environment will be presented. The story will unfold over a simulated two-week period. Panelists will respond to the medical facts as they emerge and comment on the legal authority of public health agencies to take action, the legal obligations of the healthcare sector and private employers to work with government agencies, and ethical perspectives on how decisions will be made in the face of medical and legal uncertainties. “
I guess it all makes sense, yet a bit shocking that we don’t even know how (if) we will survive the epidemic, but the lawyers are already preparing, as usual…
On a lighter note, lawyers in London are losing billable hours big time:
“The chat in the legal community is that not one billable hour has been done today,” lawyer Mark Stephens said Thursday….”Life in London has ground to a halt because everyone — barristers, solicitors, partners, managing partners, legal secretaries — is working on deciphering it.”
He is talking about the secret code the judge who presided over the failed Da Vinci Code plagiarism case at London’s High Court hid in his written judgment.
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