Lateral Link recruiter David Lat, who founded the website Above the Law in 2006, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Lat, who is based in New York City, posted on Twitter just after midnight Tuesday that he had a confirmed case of the coronavirus. In his post, he urged individuals who had interacted with him since Feb. 23 to cite that fact to receive automatic testing for the disease.

In post on Facebook, he said he's being treated at NYU Langone Medical Center and added that his husband, Zachary Shemtob, a former Cooley associate, also is infected with the virus.

Lat also used Twitter to express frustration with how the U.S. has handled the public health crisis.

"If you interacted with me in person after 2/23, you can cite that fact and get automatically tested. Otherwise you might have to go to the ridiculous efforts I had to in order to get a simple test that other countries have given to their citizens by the hundreds of thousands (the U.S. isn't even at 21K tests)," Lat wrote.

Lat joined Lateral Link as a managing director in May 2019, after nearly 13 years at Above the Law.

Just last week, before the wave of shutdowns and cancellations made clear the extent of the economic damage that would accompany the pandemic, he told The American Lawyer that law firms had yet to uniformly halt all hiring activity, unlike what happened at the start of the 2008 recession.

Lat did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

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