Litigator of the Week honors go to Kirkland & Ellis partner Mike Slade, who for 10 years has led a team battling on Boeing’s behalf to recoup $500 million after a joint venture with Russian, Ukrainian and Norwegian partners went bust.

It was an around-the-world fight, with litigation in a Delaware bankruptcy court, a Swedish arbitration tribunal, a Swedish appeals court, the Swedish Supreme Court, a Russian trial court, an English court and the Central District of California. On Nov. 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit finally put the matter to rest, upholding a decision that allows Boeing to collect what it is owed.

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