A long-running lawsuit against Greenberg Traurig and its 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.

James Melcher, an investment manager, claimed Corwin and his former 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 finally scheduled to go to trial this spring on claims that Corwin and his former firm had violated Section 487 of New York Judiciary Law, which bars attorney deceit.

The parties never filed any paperwork revealing that they had reached a settlement, but several pending motions were closed on Friday in decisions that said “this motion … is denied as moot, the matter having ended.” Justice O. Peter Sherwood also ticked a box saying “case disposed.”

Any terms the parties may have agreed to were not publicly disclosed by Friday afternoon. Other than to confirm the case ended, defense lawyer Jonathan Youngwood, partner of 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 that prevented Melcher from using certain testimony that he planned to use to make his case for $16 million in damages. The defense argued in an October letter that, even if he prevailed, Melcher was only entitled to some fraction of $1.6 million in legal fees that he argued he wouldn't have incurred if his adversaries had come clean.

More recently, several motions regarding trial evidence were decided a way that didn't clearly cut in favor of one side or the other. While Melcher sought to draw attention to missing witnesses that he argued would have bolstered his case and got turned down by the court, his lawyer convinced the court to bar certain defenses, and Greenberg Traurig and Corwin also failed to have some evidence precluded.