The judges and lawyers huddled on their screens and talked about what worked and what didn’t.
A surprising amount of it worked. Bexar County has held a handful of civil jury trials on Zoom, and some of the participants were so struck by the advantages of teleconferencing over actual courtrooms that they want them to continue after the coronavirus pandemic is over.
A judge at a recent debriefing session — also on Zoom — posed a question: “Would you do it again, and are you looking forward to it?”
