After a couple of bruising rulings in cases contesting its controversial 2009 restructuring, the bond insurer finally comes out on the winning end. In a case blaming Countrywide's shoddy underwriting for MBIA's billion-dollar exposure in 15 mortgage-backed securitizations, the bond insurer can rope in Countrywide's new parent, BofA.

Cite as: In re Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., et al., 08-13555 (JMP), NYLJ 1202483178997, at *1 (SDNY, Decided February 22, 2011)Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck

In a decision that should delight sports junkies, a judge in Manhattan rejected a bid by defense lawyers at Skadden, Proskauer Rose, and other firms to derail an antitrust class action over how pro baseball and hockey games are televised.

Could this patent dispute be the next Broadcom v. Qualcomm? One thing's for sure: Wilmer's Bill Lee is in the thick of it.

"This decision sets a terrible precedent," Jerome Falk of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin told the Litigation Daily. "It says that if you settle a case and it turns out the other side has lied to you, there's nothing you can do. That's not the law and never has been."

Nokia's lawyers at Alston & Bird now know their adversary in the company's patent fight with Apple over iPhone technology. Apple tapped Wilmer co-managing partner Bill Lee, who may have learned a thing or two about smart phones while representing Broadcom in its own battles over phone patents.

Some of the reinsurance treaties at issue dated all the way back to the 1950s, but for Simpson and its client, the result was worth the wait: Travelers got every penny it sought from American Re and a coalition of reinsurers.

After last week's compelling Q&A with former Fish partner, inventor, and self-proclaimed patent troll Scott Harris, Joe Mullin talks to some folks who claim Harris didn't actually "invent" the technology at issue in the two most recently filed infringement suits involving his patents.