Wake Up Call: As Virus Spreads, Dentons Temporarily Shuts China Office

In today’s column, an Arizona law school pilot project will license non-lawyers to give limited legal advice; Shearman & Sterling is opening a Dallas office with partners poached from Jones Day; and Simpson Thacher hired its first chief knowledge and innovation officer.

• Leading off, Law.com reports that Dentons has temporarily closed its office in Wuhan, China, amidst the country’s worsening coronavirus outbreak, while Reed Smith and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe have advised staff to avoid travel to mainland China. Meanwhile, a Loyola University New Orleans College of Law professor who was in the country as a Fulbright scholar was ...