A long-running lawsuit against Greenberg Traurig and former partner Leslie Corwin over claims they defended a hedge fund manager based on a fabricated document has come to a close, according to court papers.

Investment manager James Melcher claimed Corwin and his former law firm deceived the court by using fake paperwork to defend Melcher's onetime business partner Brandon Fradd in an underlying suit Melcher filed over $6.5 million in profits he said he was owed.

Melcher settled with Fradd for $5 million, but his follow-up case against Greenberg spanned nearly 12 years. The parties were scheduled for trial this spring on claims that Corwin and the firm violated a New York law barring attorney deceit.

The parties never filed any settlement notice, but several pending motions were closed Friday with the notation “this motion … is denied as moot, the matter having ended.” Justice O. Peter Sherwood also ticked a box saying “case disposed.”

Settlement terms were not disclosed. Other than to confirm the case ended, defense attorney Jonathan Youngwood, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, declined to comment. Melcher was represented by Jeffrey Jannuzzo, who declined to comment.

The decision comes after an appellate decision in September barred Melcher from using planned  testimony supporting his claim to $16 million in damages. The defense argued in an October letter that, even if he prevailed, Melcher was entitled to only a fraction of $1.6 million in legal fees that he argued he wouldn't have incurred if his adversaries came clean.

More recently, several decisions on trial evidence didn't clearly cut in favor of one side or the other. While Melcher unsuccessfully sought to draw attention to missing witnesses that he argued would have bolstered his case, his lawyer persuaded the court to bar certain defenses, and Greenberg Traurig and Corwin also failed to have some evidence precluded.

Melcher claimed Greenberg and Corwin colluded with their client to present a phony contract amendment limiting Melcher's profits and claim the document was accidentally burned by the client while making tea.

Corwin is now New York managing partner of Eisner, which was founded in Los Angeles.