If no one has yet, we need to share this info with the "other" site for the benefit of any new posters "over there". As distasteful as it may seem, there's still a lot of traffic there. What law firm would take a case not knowing if they would ever get paid? Answer....none. Ashcroft/Sullivan got a look at the goods and knew they would be rewarded handsomely, They're not the old law firm of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe, after all.
Good guys rule today, but I don't doubt that those fargin iceholes will be back beating the dead horse again tomorrow.