Deloitte's lawyers at Sidley Austin persuaded a judge in Manhattan that their client was duped like everyone else by alleged fraud at Longtop Financial, the U.S.-listed Chinese software company that collapsed in 2011 under the weight of a massive accounting scandal.

We're finally going to get a once-and-for-all ruling on whether Cravath can continue as counsel to Air Products in the hostile bid for onetime Cravath client Airgas--but it's going to come without a formal hearing. The Delaware judge poised to decide the issue has cancelled a Tuesday hearing, informing lawyers on both sides that he'll decide on the briefs.

Precedent ruled the day at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a price-fixing case against makers of liquid-crystal display panels, even if not all the judges were particularly happy about it. Who was happy? Lawyers for the LCD makers at White & Case.