Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include a team from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan led by Kathleen Sullivan, Dan Posner and Dylan Proctor in a case that (as the firm's PR rep Eric Herman put it) is "like 'Toy Story' meets 'Bleak House.'"

The 16-year IP fight between Mattel and MGA over Barbie and Bratz dolls ended at last when the California Supreme Court denied MGA's request to reverse the trial court's dismissal of its final claims. 

Hogan Lovells partners Bill Kettlewell and Sara Silva won a complete acquittal in perhaps the highest profile public corruption case in Boston in recent years. They represented Kenneth Brissette, the former director of the Office of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment under Boston Mayor Martin Walsh. 

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin tossed the convictions against Brissette and another city official, ruling that "This action is required based on the government's failure to prove that either man committed the charged offenses."

Latham & Watkins partner Kevin Wheeler scored for Senior Technology, one of the Chinese market's primary suppliers of lithium-ion battery separators—which sounds esoteric, but would impact scores of consumer electronics and electric vehicle companies that incorporate the batteries. 

Wheeler's client was hit with patent and trade secret claims by rival Celgard in the Northern District of California. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar sided with Senior Technology, denying Celgard's bids for a TRO and preliminary injunction and granting a motion to dismiss the case against the company's Chinese parent.

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's Anthony Dreyer, Jordan Feirman, Hannah Marek and Shelli Gimelstein cemented their victory for Pinduoduo when a federal judge in Manhattan awarded $400,000 in fees and costs.

The award stems from an August 2019 dismissal on jurisdictional grounds of claims for trademark infringement and unfair competition brought by Chinese baby care company Beijing Daddy's Choice Science and Technology Co.