Our runners up for Litigator of the Week  include Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan's Sean Pak and Dave Nelson, who scored a significant win at the International Trade Commission on behalf of Qualcomm.

It's one battle in a war with Apple over IP developed by the San Diego-based chipmaker. An ITC administrative law judge found that Apple infringed one of Qualcomm's patents and recommended an import ban on certain iPhones—a ruling that if upheld by the full commission will provide key leverage for Qualcomm as the fight continues.

We were also impressed by Hogan Lovells partner Neal Katyal, who prevailed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on behalf of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer. 

The ruling put an end to multidistrict litigation challenging the FDA-approved labeling for anticoagulant drug Eliquis. It also settles a longstanding intra-circuit split over the scope of the forum-defendant rule.

Attorneys at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp led by Mark Bravin represented plaintiffs in a suit against Iran for its role in the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847. The plane was headed from Athens, Greece, to Rome, and then on to Boston and Los Angeles, with 139 passengers aboard, most of whom were Americans. 

On March 25, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C. entered a $353 million default judgment against Iran under a 2008 statute creating a federal cause of action against foreign states designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism.

And Proskauer's Betsy Plevan is representing the Metropolitan Opera in a defamation case by conductor James Levine, who was fired by the Met after several men accused him of sexual assault.

Levine turned around and sued the Met and its general manager for defamation. On Tuesday, a New York State Supreme Court judge dismissed most of his claims.