Jon Huntsman’s decision to drop out of the Republican presidential primary isn’t stopping Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe from suing his campaign over what it claims is more that $41,000 in unpaid rent for office space leased from the firm in Washington, D.C.

A lawyer for Bingham McCutchen tried to convince a Massachusetts judge Monday that state law allows the firm to bring a declaratory judgment action attempting to stop Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt Jr. from suing the firm for malpractice.

The day after her appointment to oversee discovery in massive litigation against Prudential Life Insurance, a special master has withdrawn amid allegations that impermissible conflicts of interest barred her involvement.

The battle over law clinic independence didn’t end last month when lawmakers backed off a proposal to withhold state money from the University of Maryland School of Law unless its law clinics turned over case information. The fight has shifted to Louisiana, where legislators soon will consider a bill that would prohibit any law school clinic at a public or private university that receives state money from suing a government agency or seeking monetary damages from an individual or business.