Leave it to lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to come up with a new way to litigate a decades-old grievance: that cheap imported steel is crushing the domestic industry.

Now, what could be one of the all-time great battles is brewing at the International Trade Commission, pitting Quinn Emanuel client U.S. Steel Corp. against the Chinese steel industry and an army of lawyers from firms including Covington & Burling; Greenberg Traurig; Alston & Bird and Steptoe & Johnson LLP.