Lawyers for various Lehman Brothers directors and officers, including former CEO Richard Fuld, filed papers Wednesday in Lehman's Manhattan federal bankruptcy proceedings seeking the release of $90 million in insurance funds to settle securities fraud claims pending since June 2008.

We're beginning to reap the consequences of the sweeping Lehman examiner's report. Plaintiffs in a long-pending securities class action have now filed an amended complaint that adds allegations about Lehman's now-infamous Repo 105 balance sheet asset transfers--and adds Lehman's auditor, Ernst & Young, as a defendant.

Thanks to our colleagues at The National Law Journal, we've got everything you need to know about the upcoming Senate hearings to confirm Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination, including the list of individuals scheduled to testify, and a dozen themes that will likely frame the proceedings when they begin on Monday.

Milan lost an estimated $100 million in a complex interest rate swap deal that it made with four banks in the run-up to the financial crisis. But the city fought back, becoming among the first municipalities to file criminal fraud charges against the banks under an Italian law that lets prosecutors file quasi-criminal charges against companies and their managers.