The firm's client, Cargill, was the last high-fructose corn syrup maker to be awarded damages against Mexico in a case that alleged Mexican favoritism for domestic sugar manufacturers. But its revenge was plenty sweet: $77 million.

Big companies and their allies say state AGs violate the rights of defendants and create unwholesome conflicts when they hire private contingency fee counsel to stick up for citizens' interests. Thankfully, says columnist Susan Beck, West Virginia's highest court has joined a series of previous decisions and cast those claims aside.

This has been a good week for the IRS, and not so good for those trying to avoid IRS scrutiny. On Thursday the IRS won a ruling by the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Textron that may give it much greater access to internal materials prepared by corporate taxpayers.

Labaton Sucharow and Berman DeValerio Pease Tabacco Burt & Pucillo get the nod--but there wasn't much competition. Plus: How many securities class actions were filed in 2008, anyway?

A federal judge in Arizona refused to dismiss claims that Greenberg helped to facilitate a $200 million fraud allegedly run by its former client, Mortgages Ltd.

Theranos Inc. and its lawyers at Boies Schiller claimed that McDermott, Will & Emery failed to stop a former partner from funneling the company's confidential information to family members pursuing competing patents.