Our runners up for Litigator of the Week include a team from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan led by Kathleen Sullivan, Dan Posner and Dylan Proctor in a case that (as the firm’s PR rep Eric Herman put it) is “like ‘Toy Story’ meets ‘Bleak House.’”

The 16-year IP fight between Mattel and MGA over Barbie and Bratz dolls ended at last when the California Supreme Court denied MGA’s request to reverse the trial court’s dismissal of its final claims.