Morning News Roundup for Monday

Here are the top news stories for this morning:

The RIAA has decided to stop its controversial lawsuits against individual file sharers, instead opting to strike deals with ISPs to control their users’ use of torrents…

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey has elected 16 lawyers to its partnership, effective January 1st. The 2009 partnership class includes lawyers from four continents…

An avalanche of bankruptcy filings is creating mountains of work for lawyers, but the credit freeze is making things difficult…

Tampa’s Macfarlane Ferguson & McMullen is being sued by a couple who made a deposit on a unit in a failed Trump development…

Guess what, victims of Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme — you can sue all you want, but the money is gone…

Indicted Governor Rod Blagojevich’s attorney will challenge the lawfulness of the court-ordered wiretaps offered as evidence in federal corruption allegations against the Illinois Democrat…