I know I've been commenting on the quality of our runners-up here lately, but, good grief, would you look at these matters that were almost Litigator of the Week again this week.

First up, we have the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher lawyers I wrote about yesterday who helped get a criminal fraud indictment dismissed against New York real estate developer Robert Morgan. A team lead by partners Joel Cohen and Lee Dunst that also included Genevieve Quinn, Alyssa Ogden, Lauren Myers, Alina Wattenberg, Nina Meyer, Amy Mayer, Tim Sun, and Nick Parker hounded the government for its myriad discovery miscues resulting in an 83-page order from U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford of the Western District of New York dismissing the case on October 8. Kudos to a very worthy runner-up.

Also getting a runner-up nod this week are Sidley Austin partners Todd Friedbacher in Geneva and Eric Solovy in Washington, D.C., who on Tuesday got good news from the World Trade Organization for client Airbus in its running 16-year dispute with rival Boeing—an effort that has involved a slough of Sidley lawyers across the globe. The WTO authorized the European Union to impose tariffs against Boeing aircraft and other U.S. imports to the tune of $4 billion annually as countermeasures to U.S. subsidies.