Now Available! 2022 Commercial Litigation Outlook

In the second annual installment of Seyfarth Shaw's Commercial Litigation Outlook, our nationally-recognized team provides keen insights about what to expect in 2022. It will be a busy year that will call upon clients and their counsel to be flexible, creative, and proactive on many fronts.

As the pandemic morphs into an endemic, we are seeing overall litigation activity increase as court backlogs have cleared and trials have resumed. The drivers of increased litigation are many, and include vaccine availability, a more robust federal enforcement scheme, and impending court deadlines in cases that were either filed during the early stages of the pandemic or which had previously stalled due to restricted travel, inactivity, or court closures.