The bankruptcy British division had to fend off claims from other Lehman entities, which asserted that securities bouncing around in internal transfers were merely held in trust by Lehman UK.

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W.R. Grace and five former executives are accused of exposing thousands of people to deadly asbestos particles via Grace's mining operations near Libby, Montana. Can Kirkland's David Bernick successfully defend the company from what's been called the most significant criminal case ever filed against a polluter?

The former Fannie Mae GC spent seven years at Latham, but was wowed at a lunch with Paul, Weiss's litigation stars.

It's super rare for securities defendants to successfully rebut the fraud-on-the-market presumption of reliance to beat a case. So while the immediate stakes weren't that high (around $3.5 million), it counts as a real victory for Vivendi and its lawyers at Cravath that they managed to pull it off last week.

The amicus brief filed by Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. argues that Prometheus Laboratories' patents covering a process for creating personalized medicine are invalid, but not because such a process can't be patented. Instead, the government maintains that the technology was obvious to the scientific community.