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Justice at a distance during coronavirus poses challenges

CEDAR RAPIDS — Now working from home, Cedar Rapids lawyer Sam Jones finds himself balancing the needs of both his clients and his kids.Jones, a civil litigator and senior vice president with Shuttleworth and Ingersoll in Cedar Rapids, accepts his new normal, as do many others during the novel coronavirus outbreak that also has changed the way defense lawyers communicate with defendants in jail and the way trials and hearings are held.For Jones, that new normal means keeping on top of providing legal services to clients while also tracking his 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son as they decide to pick up trash from a nearby creek bed and discover deer remains.“The whole situation makes you appreciate teachers and day care workers, and really what everybody in society contributes,” Jones said before pausing in a phone interview to talk to his kids as they came into the home office.

 

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