If Righthaven doesn't pay due to bankruptcy, can DiBiase collect from the paper they represented in the suit (the Review/Journal)?
You're right, they could dissolve and reform under a new name, but who would hire them after their previous clients get burned for all those fees? OTOH, if all judgements against Righthaven go away with their bankruptcy, it becomes good business to hire them (there's no financial risk).
I wasn’t aware of prior judgments against Righthaven reaching to the media whose copyright they claimed to (sort of) hold — so no burning of these media has yet happened, other than Righthaven’s boasted protective services becoming ineffective (i.e. the media paid Righthaven for a pig in a poke). The idea seems to be that Righthaven’s stings would help their media clients ward off the stealing of their intellectual property, but that Righthaven itself would keep the proceeds of such stings.
My understanding is that these cases are being thrown out -- and the targets of Righthaven awarded compensation for their legal fees -- because Righthaven never really owned the copyrights on the things they claimed they "owned" and therefore had no legal standing to sue anyone for copyright infringement.