Two days after being ordered by a federal judge to bare all, at least in regards to its financial records and internal communications, adult Web site Perfect 10 Inc. chose to end its long-running copyright infringement battle with Google Inc.

Last summer, lawyers for the Brazilian sugar giant Usinas Itamarati looked on as their witnesses self-destructed on the stand under cross-examination by Simpson Thacher partners Thomas Rice and William Russell, Jr. This week, a judge ruled that Itamarati owes $146 million to Simpson Thacher's client, Bank of America's Merrill Lynch Capital Services unit.

Last spring Citi appeared to be on the verge of victory in its breach of contract suit. But a last-minute counterclaim by Morgan Stanley may turn things around.

It's been a tough week for MBIA, but the insurer and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel caught a break Thursday in their case against Countrywide and BofA over billions in soured mortgage-backed securities. What's more, the ruling may revive similar fraud claims that MBIA and Ambac brought against Credit Suisse.

It's been three years since Citigroup sued Morgan Stanley for allegedly refusing to honor a credit default swap on a busted CDO, pitting former Fried Frank litigation chair Gregory Joseph against Morgan Stanley's lawyers at Quinn Emanuel. On Tuesday Joseph brought his client a big step closer to collecting a $245 million judgment in the case, when the Second Circuit refused to give Morgan Stanley another shot at dodging Citi's claims.

Google Inc. and its lawyers at Quinn Emanuel have given up the fight in a closely-watched case challenging fundamental features of Google's most profitable product, AdWords.

With half-a-billion dollars at stake in a decade-old asbestos reinsurance case, Vyskocil faced down Wachtell Lipton's Herbert Wachtell and Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel to win Tuesday's New York state appellate court ruling for Travelers Insurance, keeping the reinsurer defendants on the hook for more than $420 million (and counting).