The failure of lawyers at Brune & Richard to reveal that they knew a juror in their client's trial was lying doesn't mean that they gave their client ineffective counsel, a federal court judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday. The client, former Deutsche Bank accountant David Parse, was convicted in 2011 in a trial over a tax shelter scheme allegedly set up by codefendant Paul Daugerdas, a former Jenkens & Gilchrist partner.

The poster child for patent holding companies keeps dropping defendants from an infringement suit involving digital network access server technology. Is it signing secret licensing deals or just losing the litigation?

The ginormous California pension fund already has a pending $430 million claim in Lehman's bankruptcy, but now it's going after the folks who presided over Lehman's demise, as well as the underwriters who facilitated it.

The D.C. Circuit concluded that the rule limiting cable operators to less than 30 percent of the market was unconstitutional, especially in light of the increasing market share of satellite TV.

We look at Latham's handling of similar claims against Ernst &Young in a Lehman shareholder suit to see how it might defend the accounting firm in this case.