Last week was the best of times and the worst of times for Morrison & Foerster. A start-up company says the firm botched its patent infringement defense--but not before billing almost $5 million on the case. Meanwhile, MoFo won a big battle in the ITC for Funai, effectively blocking the import of rival manufacturers' high-definition televisions.

A federal jury in New York found Frederic Bourke guilty on Friday of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and making false statements to the FBI. During the five-week trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Bourke knew about a scheme hatched by Czech expatriate Viktor Kozeny in the late 1990s to bribe Azerbaijan government officials to sell off the country's state-owned oil company.

In this installment of excerpts from the Arbitration Scorecard, we look at a $5 billion dispute between Moldovan investors and the Republic of Kazakhstan over rights to hydrocarbons exploration and a $9 billion dispute between Russia's Gazprom and Poland's state-owned gas utility company.

The Second Circuit had held that the government can't prosecute pharma companies and their representative for speech promoting the lawful, off-label use of an FDA-approved drug.

A federal judge continues to whittle away at summary judgment motions by ruling in favor of digital camera manufacturers accused of infringing two patents owned by Papst Licensing Gmbh & Co., which is being represented by Husch Blackwell.

Have you thanked a litigator today? In a season of dismal law firm financial reports, a new study by Law360 suggests that if it weren't for litigation, 2008 could have been much, much worse.