Latham & Watkins can proceed as lead trial counsel for a defendant in a massive antitrust class action, a Washington federal district trial judge ruled on Tuesday, denying a motion to disqualify the firm.

After six years of litigation, the online retailer Newegg Inc. and its appellate lawyers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges have delivered a major blow to Soverain Software LLC, which has raked in tens of millions of dollars asserting patents related to e-commerce.

The Delaware Chancery Court tossed shareholder claims against Attachmate and Elliott Associates over Attachmate's $2.2 billion acquisition of Novell in 2010, but the court ruled that Novell board members can't dodge claims that they acted in bad faith in favoring Attachmate's bid over others.

Acacia Research Corporation, which reported a record $99 million in revenues in the first quarter of 2012, has been racking up settlements in its wide-ranging patent infringement litigation campaign. And the company just picked up new collection of digital imagining patents once held by Polaroid.

Cox, now a partner at Bingham McCutchen, has claimed credit for helping push through the quick sale of Lehman's most valuable assets to Barclays. But as that sale has come under scrutiny in at least three investigations in the Lehman Chapter 11, he may come to regret that.