Apple is bringing on some prominent outside lawyers to help in upcoming lawsuits, says Bloomberg. The company has for instance hired Ropert Krupka of Kirkland & Ellis, who previously helped Apple negotiate a $100 million settlement with Creative. Also onboard are WilmerHale's William Lee -- who successfully led Broadcom against Qualcomm -- and Weil, Gotshal & Manges' Matt Powers, who defended a Merck patent for Singulair, an asthma drug worth about $4.7 billion a year.
