The biggest environmental crimes case in history ended in dramatic fashion Friday, when a federal jury in Montana acquitted W.R. Grace and three former executives of conspiring to cover up the release of deadly asbestos in a small mining town. The Lit Daily talks to Bernick about his closing argument, Montana, and prosecutorial misconduct.

A federal judge in Manhattan signed off on the deal with Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins over the objections of Apple Inc., which has been accused by both the Justice Department and class action lawyers of conspiring with publishers to jack up e-book prices.

Raise your oversized glasses to the lawyers who beat back New York City's ban on large sugary drinks on Monday, keeping the city safe for the sweet-toothed and thirsty.

For months, Susman Godfrey has been arguing on behalf of the WMI equity committee that Quinn Emanuel may have let JPMorgan and the FDIC off too easy. Delaware bankruptcy judge Mary Walrath disagreed.

When Microsoft lost two nine-figure jury verdicts last spring, we heard lots of predictions that the verdicts wouldn't hold up. There's still no ruling on Microsoft's posttrial attempt to overturn the $388 million verdict against it in Providence, but on Tuesday, Judge Leonard Davis in Tyler issued a posttrial ruling that really sticks it to the software giant.

When the cofounders and sole shareholders of a thriving Dallas software company had a falling out, the minority shareholder, represented by Diamond McCarthy, demanded his fair share of the company's $150 million hoard of retained earnings. He didn't get all he wanted, but he got most of it.