Florida-based Am Law 200 firm Shutts & Bowen and Miami partner Kevin Cowan settled an antitrust lawsuit in a case that also raised allegations of wrongdoing against Hinshaw & Culbertson Coral Gables partner Steven Carlyle Cronig.

“It's over,” Cronig said Thursday about the antitrust suit. “We won.”

But now Cronig and his client, Watson Brickell Development LLC, are seeking to turn the tables on the plaintiffs' lawyer, Las Vegas-based litigator Adam J. Breeden, with an effort to recoup about $400,000 in attorney fees under a federal rule of civil procedure that prohibits frivolous or unsubstantiated arguments.