You know your mother’s angry when she hires Boies, Schiller & Flexner to sue you. That’s the situation facing Mitchell Modell, the CEO of Modell’s Sporting Goods, whose mother is accusing him of diverting corporate assets and paying himself an excessive salary.

Washington lawyer Leicester Stovell says a federal judge should not dismiss his lawsuit trying to prove that basketball star LeBron James is his son. In his filing last week, Stovell says a motion to dismiss his suit is partly a “diatribe” accusing him of “crawling out of the woodwork after the child he never gave a thought to became an NBA star.” Stovell’s filing says the judge in the case is the only one who can give him the final answer he’s looking for about paternity — as well as money for “mental anguish.”

Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre has chosen a novel defense against regulators accusing him of fraud: He’s blaming the in-house lawyers. In a filing Monday in federal court, the self-described “Fabulous Fab” denied SEC allegations that he made materially misleading statements or omissions in a 2007 deal involving subprime mortgages

Warner Bros. has sued Marc Toberoff, the lawyer for Superman’s co-creators, accusing him of trying to wrongfully seize control of a substantial chunk of the Superman property. The suit is based, in part, on an anonymous letter that Warner characterizes as a detailed accounting of Toberoff’s efforts to attach himself to the Superman franchise

A House task force unanimously recommended Thursday that Congress impeach a Louisiana federal judge, accusing him of improperly taking cash and lying during his confirmation.