Sheila Birnbaum and Mark Cheffo made the big switch on Tuesday, becoming the latest high-profile additions to Quinn Emanuel's ever-growing roster of litigators.

When other firms and conventional strategies come up short, clients in deep trouble turn to Gibson, Dunn for fresh, aggressive thinking and innovative rescues.

Section 101 of the Patent Act--which holds that laws of nature and abstract ideas can't be patented--is getting a workout these days.

The online retailer Newegg Inc. has built up a reputation for crusading against so-called non-practicing entities—often disparaged as patent trolls. But Newegg may have overreached when it picked a discovery fight with NPE pioneer Erich Spangenberg, earning itself a rebuke this week from an East Texas federal judge.

In the latest development in the Chapter 11 of WaMu's parent, a judge refused to appoint an examiner but told Susman Godfrey it can probe the estate's deal with JPMorgan Chase. That doesn't bode well for a settlement--and a plan of reorganization--that's already imperiled.