Delaware Court of Chancery Chancellor Andre Bouchard has ordered TransPerfect and its CEO to pay to Skadden the vast majority of the legal fees the law firm requested in a custodianship case.

In 138-page opinion that covered conflict and numerous offshoot lawsuits filed since the case was opened in 2014, Bouchard opened by referencing then-Chancellor Leo Strine Jr.’s statement nine years ago that “it is more time-consuming to clean up the pizza thrown at the wall than it is to throw it.”

Andre G. Bouchard.