And Quinn Emanuel (again) is on the winning side for Google. Yahoo! was represented by Howrey.

Most players in the auction-rate securities market have shut up and settled when the New York AG came knocking at their door. Not Charles Schwab. After Cuomo filed suit Monday, Schwab released a letter in which its outside counsel argued that Cuomo's office is abusing its prosecutorial discretion by going after "downstream" sellers.

In hopes of winning approval of a $7.5 million fee award in a nationwide antitrust class action, plaintiffs lawyers from 35 firms were forced to reveal nearly 2,000 pages of billing information, and to disclose an unprecedented range of details about how they worked together to litigate the case.

Is there any lawyer in America with a more fun practice than Robert Raskopf? The Lit Daily has already chronicled his win on behalf of the Dallas Cowboys in the "America's Team" trademark challenge. Now comes word that he's won an affirmance from the D.C. Circuit of the Redskins' trademarks, which have been under assault by Native American groups. The only catch for Raskopf: He's a Giants fan!

A San Jose judge on Friday blocked sales of the Galaxy Nexus smartphone, siding with Apple for the second time in a week in granting preliminary injunctions against products that run on Google's Android. The latest ruling is a win for Apple's counsel at Gibson, Dunn and Morrison & Foerster, and another setback for Samsung's legal team at Quinn Emanuel.

Thanks to the K&L Gates duo, Carnegie Mellon University won the biggest verdict of 2012—a $1.17 billion verdict in a patent infringement suit against Marvell Technology Group. The verdict, if it stands, will give the school a huge cash infusion, as well as wipe out a year's worth of profit for a major Silicon Valley company.