A pair of former Howrey partners at Mayer Brown are on a roll defeating false advertising class action claims for the food company and its affiliates.

Reversing a lower court judge, an appeals court in Seattle ruled that Tremont Group Holdings and others must face tort and state securities law claims brought by FutureSelect Portfolio Management., a Redmond, Wash.-based investment advisor that lost $195 million of its clients' money in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

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.

The SEC just filed a common-sense fraud case against a tiny, bankrupt body armor maker in Florida. So why can't it do the same against the banks that nearly wrecked our economy?

After Lehman Brothers went belly-up, its estate accused JPMorgan and Barclays of vulturing much-needed assets. Barclays defeated most of those claims last year, while JPMorgan's Lehman-related litigation stalled. That changed last week, however, when two different federal judges in Manhattan ruled on long-dormant dismissal motions by JPMorgan's lawyers at Wachtell Lipton and Paul Weiss.

Was Judge Jed Rakoff right to rule on a crucial bankruptcy law provision in Irving Picard's clawback case against the owners of the New York Mets? Or was the Manhattan federal district court judge just unable to resist sinking his teeth into a juicy case?

Nearly two years to the day after Washington, D.C.-based litigation shop Howrey dissolved, the trustee unwinding the defunct firm's Chapter 11 estate has launched the first round of lawsuits aimed at clawing back money earned by former Howrey partners from assignments they brought to the firms where they landed. More suits, and settlement talks, are in the works.