A one-man campaign against “Ladies Nights” did not get far. The 2nd Circuit has rejected Roy Den Hollander’s claim that the Copacabana Nightclub and other establishments were “state actors” who violated the U.S. Constitution by charging men more for admission and drinks than women.

A mammoth 2,300-page report compiled by a Special Investigation Commission for the Icelandic parliament heavily criticizes some of Iceland’s leading political figures and banking officials over the crisis that brought the country to the brink of insolvency. The report, the result of a 15-month investigation, exposes failings in the financial system for the island nation.

A lawyer who was fired from a temporary legal staffing company has filed a defamation suit against Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. James Zhang was working at Wilmer’s D.C. office as a lawyer with Special Counsel when one of Wilmer’s attorneys asked him if he was downloading firm documents onto his flash drive

Lehman Brothers and its lawyers at Weil, Gotshal & Manges sent a clear message this week to the judge hearing Lehman’s bankruptcy case: Make public the full report about Lehman’s demise. In a motion filed Monday by Weil’s Harvey Miller, Lehman says it has cooperated fully with the special examiner investigating the bank’s failure and has turned over more than 20 million pages of e-mail.

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is taking on a courtroom role for the first time since he was the special prosecutor in the 2007 I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial