The latest stage in long-running litigation over alleged price-fixing in the market for LCD screens is getting underway in San Francisco this week, with Best Buy and Eastman Kodak heading to trial against a trio of LCD screen manufacturers.

After a three-part trial that spanned two years, San Jose federal district court judge Ronald Whyte has ordered Hynix to pay its litigious chipmaking rival almost $400 million. But with Hynix vowing an appeal, Rambus shouldn't count on collecting anytime soon.

For litigators willing to switch sides, there are employment opportunities.

Led by partner Jerome Falk Jr., the firm convinced the Ninth Circuit that the rap artist is entitled to a 50 percent royalty on downloads. Asserting that the recording contract at issue was a standard contract, Falk says this ruling could extend to other artists.

Eminem's former producers and their lawyers at Arnold & Porter helped inspire a chorus of artists to sue their record labels over royalties for digital downloads.

In a case that "every CEO in America should watch," the SEC for the first time is demanding that a CEO forfeit compensation--even though the agency doesn't claim he was involved in the fraud at his company. The agency says CEOs should share the cost of fraud with shareholders, but a lawyer for the targeted exec says the SEC is overreaching.

We suspect that AIG will live on as a litigant long after the company is dead and gone. In the latest development, defendants in a long-running Delaware derivative suit are asked to be dismissed from the case.