After days of mostly tedious testimony in Oracle's copyright showdown with Google over Java, jurors got a little treat Thursday: actual courtroom drama.

Three judges wanted to rehead the case, but they were outvoted by the rest of the circuit. As a result, the next stop for the suit against California's ban against marriage equality will be the U.S. Supreme Court.

Jamie McCourt had claimed that her 2011 divorce agreement with Frank McCourt should be dismantled because her ex-husband fraudulently portrayed the value of the Dodgers at below $300 million. He sold the team last year for $2.15 billion.

After months of reading submissions, vetting, and interviews, The American Lawyer has announced the winners of the magazine's sixth biennial Litigation Department of the Year contest. Gibson Dunn cinched the top billing for the second time in a row, but plenty of additional firms and more than a half-dozen individual litigators shared in the spotlight.

Skadden's $77.5 million win for Hank Greenberg may be hard to replicate.

The high court ostensibly addressed only f-cubed securities claims in its landmark Morrison v. NAB opinion. But defendants--and judges--are finding the ruling extends beyond those limits.

Sheila Birnbaum and Mark Cheffo made the big switch on Tuesday, becoming the latest high-profile additions to Quinn Emanuel's ever-growing roster of litigators.

For any class action plaintiffs lawyer, winning tens of millions of dollars in fees is a big deal. But the litigation Robert Abrams of Baker & Hostetler spearheaded for a group of southeast U.S. dairy farmers isn't your average case--not for Abrams, his firm, or the bankruptcy trustee and creditors of Howrey LLP.

A dozen Am Law firms failed to convince a federal judge in San Francisco to throw out claims that many of the world's leading consumer electronics companies conspired to fix prices for CD, DVD and Blu Ray recordable and rewritable drives.