District Judge Harold Baer U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Judge Baer OPINION & ORDER/h2

Justice David Schmidt KINGS COUNTY Supreme Court For the Plaintiff: Kenneth Frenkel For the Defendant: Clausen Miller Edward Garfinkel

The class action folks at Korein Tillery tried to sneak a case against Putnam Investments into state court in Madison County. The appellate panel said a fraud is a fraud is a fraud--and it shouldn't be tried in state court.

Is it possible for a law firm to bill $100,000 a day on a matter? Apparently so. If you don't believe it, check out the fee application submitted by Dewey & LeBoeuf in its work on the receivership of WexTrust Capital, an investment firm that targeted Orthodox Jewish investors. Another surprised person: federal district court judge Denny Chin, who on Monday questioned a $2.1 million fee application made by Dewey & LeBoeuf partner Timothy Coleman, who is the receiver for WexTrust.

UniCredit and its lawyers at Skadden persuaded Manhattan federal district court judge Jed Rakoff to deal Irving Picard yet another blow in his efforts to recover billions from banks connected in some way to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department MARY MICELI, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, V STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSU