Lawyers for various Lehman Bros.

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

The SEC’s suit against Goldman Sachs has people wondering whether other banks committed the same conduct with which Goldman is charged: structuring debt it secretly knew would fail and then pitching that debt to investors. It turns out Quinn Emanuel, representing a Dutch bank, alleged almost a year ago that Merrill Lynch did something similar in creating an investment fund nicknamed Norma.

The legal fee dispute between the Lehman Brothers estate’s fee committee and key law firms working on Lehman’s bankruptcy gained momentum this week, when three firms — Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, Jones Day and Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle — filed papers protesting the committee’s reductions of their bills. The main argument — in terms of controversy and dollars — centers on how much the firms are billing to prepare their bills.

Lawyers for Washington Mutual filed papers Friday in the bank’s Chapter 11 case claiming Sullivan & Cromwell, on behalf of WaMu’s new owners at JPMorgan Chase, has been sending out letters asking WaMu’s old law firms to turn over client files on WaMu that include privileged material. The letters claim JPMorgan should have access to the documents because JPMorgan and WaMu are essentially the same entity now and therefore have “joint privilege.” WaMu’s lawyers at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver & Hedges disagree.