As Facebook's IPO transforms the social network from a private venture to a publicly held corporation, general counsel Ted Ullyot's role is about to undergo its own metamorphosis -- both in terms of the disclosure and governance responsibilities that fall to the GC of a public company, as well as the intense scrutiny that Facebook will encounter as it begins trying to meet its new investors' mega-growth expectations. The general counsel and his fellow executives "will really feel like they're in a fishbowl," says Dan Cooperman, former general counsel of Apple.

JPMorgan Chase, agent bank for the dying Dewey & LeBoeuf, has retained Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel to represent the interests of the firm's lenders, which also include Bank of America, Citi Private Bank and HSBC. The firm reportedly owes the banks a combined total of $75 million against a $100 million line of credit. See also: Dewey & LeBoeuf's D.C. Landlord Seeks to Evict Firm and Dewey Hong Kong Duo Heads to DLA

In what one attorney calls the first judgment of its kind, a Washington federal judge has ordered Iran and Syria to pay $332 million for their role in a 2006 suicide attack in Israel that killed 11 people. The judge found that the countries were liable under the state-sponsored terrorism exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

The private emails of Eliot Spitzer -- who as New York's attorney general tapped into corporate emails to build some of his biggest cases against Wall Street tycoons -- are subject to the state Freedom of Information Law to the extent that they deal with public business, a New York judge has held.