A 'Recipe for Litigation': Have Big Law Litigators' Pandemic Predictions Come True?
Four litigators who shared their predictions from a year ago about the types of litigation coming out of the pandemic have been proven prescient, even if there's been less of it than they expected.
March 17, 2021 at 07:30 AM
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Being a good litigator sometimes involves seeing around the corner to spot potential threats to your clients before the complaints start hitting the docket.
I was reminded of that when I sat down with a column posted a year ago today by my predecessor at the Litigation Daily, Jenna Greene. Just as we were all just beginning to adjust to our new COVID-driven reality this time last year, a quartet of big law litigators—Gwyn Williams of Latham & Watkins, Gregg Weiner of Ropes & Gray, Robert Dell Angelo of Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Gayle Klein, then with McKool Smith and now at Schulte Roth & Zabel—shared their predictions on how the litigation landscape would be shaped by the pandemic.
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