Like Nokia--another Alston & Bird client--Dell has chosen to file its own tag-along suit based on the government's criminal antitrust investigation rather than join a class of liquid crystal display screen buyers.

Hot potato isn't just a game for kids--it's also a gambit for lawyers who use the excuse of a conflict to drop one client in favor of a more lucrative alternative. A San Francisco tech company trying to bounce Fish from a patent infringement case claims the firm did just that.

The special master wrote that Goodwin Procter should have coughed up an email during discovery in a trade secrets spat between its client, Applied Materials, and rival microchip equipment maker Advanced Micro-Fabrication.

Less than a week after the Court's majority reversed the Ninth Circuit and ruled that AT&T could enforce individual arbitration clauses with cell phone customers, the Justices have set their sights on another Ninth Circuit consumer arbitration ruling--this time involving credit cards.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup finds that the Java coding elements that Oracle—and a jury—said Google infringed in its Android mobile phone platform can't be protected under copyright law.

The decision provided holiday cheer for Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd partner Sanford Svetcov, who said he ran into a hallway and yelled "Yippee!" as loud as he could upon reading it.

An award of $64 million in compensatory and punitive damages has been upheld against Neil Kadisha for violating trustee responsibilities.