Deutsche Bank and Citigroup agreed to pay up rather than join Goldman Sachs, Royal Bank of Scotland, and JPMorgan Chase on the list of banks sued by the National Credit Union Administration and its lawyers at Korein Tillery and Kellogg Huber.

Antitrust plaintiffs failed to show that any market would suffer an anticompetitive effect.

In taped conversations with a middleman-turned-informant, former Wilson Sonsini lawyer Matthew Kluger talks about what the government would need to convict him, his low regard for white-collar defense lawyers, and his bleak prospects for a plea deal.

The most celebrated battle in the multifront war between Qualcomm and Broadcom has been the Big Q's suit alleging that Broadcom infringed its patents on video compression technology--the case in which San Diego federal district court judge Rudi Brewster ruled that Qualcomm had deliberately failed to disclose patents to a standards-setting body. Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Judge Brewster's finding that Qualcomm breached its duty to disclose its patents to the standards-setting body. It also upheld his award of attorneys' fees to Broadcom.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan breached one more line of defense this week in the Federal Housing Finance Agency's campaign against the banks at the heart of the subprime crisis.