We lead this morning with a sliver of positive news on the gender diversity front. 

My colleague Amanda Bronstad, who covers class actions and mass torts across the country and writes the Law.com Critical Mass briefing which occasionally appears in this space, recently spent months poring over the leadership appointments in multidistrict litigation initiated from the years 2016 to 2019 with some data crunching help from Ben Hancock, who heads up our newsroom’s data journalism effort.