Just days before the deadline for investors to file objections in New York state court to a proposed $8.5 billion settlement over mortgage-backed securities, Grais & Ellsworth has removed the suit to federal court on behalf of disgruntled Countrywide investors.

A Manhattan federal district judge has denied a request by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd for up to $200,000 in fees for its work on a lawsuit challenging Sembcorp Industries’ $206 million buyout bid for Cascal NV, finding that the suit provided no benefit to Sembcorp.

When DLA Piper agreed to take on a case brought by Paul Ceglia, a New York businessman claiming to own 84 percent of Facebook, it transformed the suit from a quirky sideshow into a high-stakes challenge.

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A federal judge has refused to order the State Department to turn over documents sought by an attorney who was fired from his GC job at a Moscow-based organization after he accused it of frittering away millions of dollars in aid from U.S. government agencies. The federal government argued that the suit should be dismissed on sovereign immunity grounds.