In a major Asia push, Kirkland & Ellis has recruited Nicholas Norris and Dominic Tsun, the Hong Kong-based co-heads of Skadden’s Asia corporate practice, and Skadden corporate partner Li-Chien Wong.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. abandoned its $12 billion bid for British Sky Broadcasting Group on Wednesday amid public opposition to the deal and political pressure over a widening phone-hacking scandal.

It’s not hard to guess who MGA is knocking in a press release on changing firms in the Bratz litigation. In the release, entitled “MGA Returns to Its Trusted Counsel: Skadden,” the company calls Skadden “a few notches above some of the other law firms we have dealt with.”

Joseph Flom, the last surviving name partner of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, died in February at age 87. The will for his estate, estimated to be in the low nine figures, reveals that most of his money is going to charity.

Attorney Matthew Kluger allegedly stole information from Wilson Sonsini, Skadden and Cravath in an insider trading scheme that netted him and two accomplices $32 million in illicit profits, federal prosecutors charged in a complaint announced Wednesday.