Wake Up Call: New York Litigation Freeze Period ‘Ripe for Settlements’

In today’s column, blog founder David Lat is off experimental drug treatment for Covid-19 and showing “mild improvement"; Facebook hired WilmerHale Senior Counsel Robert Kimmitt, a former Treasury official and U.S. ambassador, as a board member; a home-confined Atlanta plaintiffs lawyer has turned his Peloton cycling sessions into a way to hook up with other lawyers; and Hogan Lovells donated 1,000 N95 masks to health-care pros.

• Leading off, as New York civil litigators expressed frustration over a freeze in most filings during the Covid-19 pandemic, one commercial litigator called the environment “ripe for settlements” and alternative dispute resolution. (New ...