The Litigator of the Week crown goes to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Mitch Karlan, Lee Dunst and Nancy Hart, who after a three-week trial, persuaded a jury in Cleveland federal court to side with their client Textron Financial Corp.

The lender was hit with a $1 billion suit by the bankruptcy trustee for Fair Finance Co., an Ohio company that collapsed in 2009 as a result of a massive criminal fraud. The victims—among them an elderly nun who testified about losing her life savings—were deeply sympathetic, but the Gibson Dunn team successfully countered that their client did nothing wrong.