Paul Laurin, lead counsel for Fox Sports in the Los Angeles Dodgers bankruptcy, has joined Barnes & Thornburg, becoming the latest attorney to depart from imploding Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff, which began dissolving after a jury issued a $10 million verdict against it and two senior attorneys.

The Heller Ehrman estate has filed a multimillion-dollar malpractice suit against its former lawyers at Greenberg Traurig.

A federal appeals court has denied MGA Entertainment Inc.’s request to reinstate its lead counsel and delay trial against Mattel Inc. after a federal judge disqualified the firm last month.

The manufacturer of the Bratz doll, facing the “horns of a difficult dilemma,” has petitioned a federal appeals court to reinstate its lead counsel, whose firm was disqualified about three weeks before going to trial against Mattel Inc.

A law firm that claimed it was “solely responsible” for a $245 million class action settlement has lost its bid to receive an additional $17 million in attorney fees. While the 2nd Circuit agreed that non-lead counsel Chimicles & Tikellis had conferred a substantial benefit on the class, it held that the district court had not erred when it approved the lead counsel’s allocation of only $155,610 in attorney fees to the firm. The fee dispute arose from a wave of suits brought against Adelphia Communications.