It's hard to remember, but only a few years ago AIG was under the gun with state and federal regulators for falsely reporting insurance premiums. It paid more than $300 million to settle with regulators, but a pool of workers' comp insurers said it owed at least $1 billion. A Chicago federal court judge disagreed, ruling that the pool administrator lacked standing to sue.

The Manhattan federal judge ruled that an Infosint patent related to two blockbuster antidepressants was invalid, handing pharmaceutical companies H. Lundbeck and Forest Laboratories (and their Quinn Emanuel lawyers) a major victory.

A federal judge in D.C. on Monday denied bids by Vinson & Elkins and Quinn Emanuel to knock out allegations that defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root, its parent company Halliburton Co, and two subcontractors passed along to the U.S. government the inflated cost of laundry services provided to American bases in Iraq.

It's been two months since Susman Godfrey took over representation of the Washington Mutual Inc. equity committee from Dewey & LeBoeuf. In that time, the young Susman Godfrey partner has managed to get almost everything he's requested from the bankruptcy court judge overseeing the Chapter 11. The next test: Will he persuade her to appoint an examiner?

A Manhattan federal court judge ruled that Parmalat could not recover damages against auditor Grant Thornton because Parmalat's own officers were responsible for fraud at the company.

Verizon is siding with Samsung in its first foray into the IP litigation free-for-all over smartphone technology. But the wireless carrier promised it would also defend Apple's products against injunction bids by competitors.