Business Is Good For Lawyers Who Do Wills

Reports of meetings with clients on parking lots, and signing on the hood of a car. In New York electronic notarization is legal, but using Zoom for witnessing is not. Says one attorney: We can take care of it when the pandemic is over if the witnesses are still alive, but in the meantime “at least I’ll have something.” In New York, there has been a call for legalizing electronic signatures, but as of the publication of this Bloomberg article, no comment from Governor Cuomo. “Bring your own pen,” says one estate lawyer.