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.

A Delaware Chancery Court ruling in shareholder litigation over Allergan's Botox marketing had some stinging language for the plaintiffs bar, but the sting was worse for Allergan and other defendants. Now, thanks to lawyers at Gibson Dunn and Morris Nichols, it's been erased.

Despite the efforts of Mayer Brown's Stephen Shapiro, Amman, Jordan-based Arab Bank plc failed last week to reverse what it has called a "disastrous" ruling in its billion-dollar court battle with victims of terrorist attacks and their families.