* We couldn’t be bothered to list all of David Boies’s and Ted Wells’s accolades when we wrote about their epic battle last week, but the AIG/Starr suit got Boies another feather for his cap: AmLaw Daily’s Litigator of the Week.
Four more, after the jump.
* Wells Fargo Bank NA v. Wells Fargo Bank NA. Not a typo, the bank is really suing itself. The bank claims there’s a perfectly rational explanation for it, but we don’t buy it. [HT: DC Toedt]
* Irving Picard, the trustee in the Madoff liquidation, has put in a fee request for himself of $759,000. Not bad, a little over 1,000 hours at $700 per. He’s using his firm, Baker & Hostetler, as trustee’s counsel, and they’ve been a bit busier: 80 partners and counsel, 100 associates; $15 billion in claims filed; $168.4 million recovered and distributed; $14.7 million in fees to the firm.
* Fake Steve Jobs thinks Google’s Eric Schmidt has a conflict of interests as an Apple director due to the search company’s release of an operating system. Not to worry, though, they can keep asking around to find a lawyer who will clear it – or just cut to the chase and ask Larry Sonsini. “He’ll do it.”
* Linklaters’ revenues stayed flat, which was enough to edge out Clifford Chance $2.41 billion to $2.34 billion for largest firm based on revenues. Even though PPP was off by 7%, it still came in at a nice $2.6 million. Clifford Chance was just over half that, at $1.36 million. Freshfields beat them both, coming in at $2.7 billion.
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