It's becoming clear that patent wars over smart phone technology are going to spread revenue to Am Law firms like manure over undernourished soil. Kirkland has filed the latest smart phone suit--Apple's infringement case against the phone-maker HTC--but it turns out that K&E has quietly been representing Apple in the Nokia case as well. Plus: a rundown of all the firms involved in the smart phone litigation to date.

As lead plaintiffs counsel in the Vivendi case, Abbey has succeeded where no other plaintiffs lawyers have: He has managed to get f-cubed investors into a U.S. courtroom with shareholder class action claims. Now the question is whether he'll win anything for them.

In the seemingly never-ending saga of Rambus's patent war against chip makers, Rambus was slapped hard on Friday by a Delaware federal district court judge, who accused the company of conduct that was "obstructive at best."