Although a recent $10.7 million default judgment that David J. Llewellyn just scored may be tough to collect, the case is a dramatic statement about the Atlanta attorney’s development of an unusual national practice: suing over botched circumcisions. Llewellyn brought the suit on behalf of a boy and his parents against Mogen Circumcision Instruments, claiming one of its devices severed the head of the boy’s penis during a bris.

Just how much are bankruptcy lawyers and advisers making in the ongoing Lehman Brothers bankruptcy? Bloomberg reports that the $873.1 million in fees billed since the beginning of the case would quadruple the annual payroll of the New York Yankees

Bicyclists who pressed a challenge to required permits for large groups of riders “even though they had no real hope of success” must pay $16,000 in litigation costs, a federal judge has ruled. The judge noted the case raised constitutional issues but faulted the plaintiffs, who were represented pro bono by Debevoise & Plimpton, for pursuing the case.

Lawyers for the District of Columbia are fighting a request from a private attorney who wants more than $3.12 million in fees for successfully challenging the city’s handgun ban. The attorney, Alan Gura, who argued and won D.C. v

One side calls a case going before a California appeals court this week an “ordinary fee dispute,” while the other insists it raises issues about contingency agreements and arbitration no court has ever addressed.