An employment lawyer’s defamation claim against an adversary who had claimed he files frivolous lawsuits cannot stand because the comments were made during a judicial proceeding and are privileged, a New York State judge has ruled.
Matthew Blit and his law firm, Levine & Blit, brought the defamation suit in August against solo practitioner Richard Savitt, after Savitt claimed in open court in a separate case that Blit files frivolous suits against high-profile figures to extract money from them in a “shakedown.”
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