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 judge has ruled.
Employment attorney 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” (NYLJ, Aug. 23, 2012).
