In the past year, Kasowitz Benson and five other firms have withdrawn from representing WebXchange in infringement suits against Dell and FedEx.

After racking up an astounding record of high-stakes victories, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher beat out 71 other firms for the title of Litigation Department of the Year, winning the prize for the second time in a row.

Joel S. Finkelstein filed suit in a New York court last week, claiming he had been duped into attending a “sham” meeting where he learned that his partners, including his brother, “without prior notice or warning and without any substantive basis” had removed him without cause as a partner from Finkelstein & Partners and two other firms, Jacoby & Meyers Law Offices and Fine, Olin & Anderman. Finkelstein’s brother disputes that version of events, saying the firms’ other partners voted unanimously to oust Joel for cause.

The list of defendants in a malpractice claim filed against defunct law firm Wolf Block reads like a who’s who of former Wolf Block lawyers who have moved on to other firms, retired or died since the client hired the firm more than 25 years ago. Alan H

Milberg and its co-counsel sought to reassure a federal judge on Friday that it did not violate court rules by including statements by two confidential witnesses in complaints against Sony Corp. that did not hold up in subsequent depositions