Modern life and commerce transactions need fast resolutions for their disputes, and the pandemic situation needs virtual hearings. The conference addresses fast-track arbitration, also known as expedited arbitration, and how the world is dealing with virtual hearings.

The COVID-19 has ushered in unprecedented times for our country and our global community. Certainly, the pandemic is impacting the way M&A transactions are looked at, papered, implemented, and even priced.

It sometimes happens that jurisprudential decisions, especially those that touch social or political current affairs, are misrepresented by the press or reported by the same with excessive emphasis.

It was therefore not entirely surprising to the undersigned to read a comment on an order of Cassation, no. 19077 of 15/7 - 14/9 2020, in which it is interpreted as meaning that it cannot be said that the adult child has achieved economic independence when the child's jobs are not of a stable nature, a circumstance that would typically occur with fixed-term contracts.

On September 1, 2020, an app for Android and iOS was officially launched in Portugal that allows you to track, quickly and anonymously, and through the physical proximity between 'smartphones', the contagion networks by COVID-19, informing users who have been, in the last 14 days, in the same space as someone infected with the new coronavirus.

With the name StayAway Covid, its installation is voluntary, as well is voluntary the insertion of the code that accompanies the diagnosis confirmation.

With the travel and tourism industry still hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and no vaccine or treatment on the immediate horizon, the pace of deals in the hotel space has slowed in recent months. Adding to the situation are unknowns about the outcome of the U.S. elections in November.