U.S. District Judge Howard Matz in L.A. found that a 12-word amendment to an agreement between Dick Clark Productions and the Golden Globes's owner gave DCP the right to renegotiate a deal to keep the show on NBC through 2018.

CEOs everywhere reached for their wallets last summer when the SEC filed an enforcement action demanding the return of $4 million in bonus and stock compensation from an auto parts exec whose company restated earnings because of an alleged fraud--even though the fraud had been hidden from him. Now his Munger lawyers are arguing that the SEC's suit is impermissible under both Sarbanes-Oxley and the U.S. Constitution.

Did Quinn Emanuel allow a partner with clear conflicts to assist the firm in AIG's $10 billion mortgage-backed securities suit against BofA? Or, as Quinn's counsel in the disqualification fight claims, is Bank of America just blowing smoke because it "doesn't want to face Quinn Emanuel on the other side."

In late 2002 a Munger partner attended a three-hour introductory meeting with outside counsel for the California Earthquake Authority. More than seven years later, the firm has been bounced from defending Wachovia in a suit brought by the Authority--even though it hasn't done any legal work for the Authority since that three-hour meeting.