A jury trial kicks off on Monday in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fraud case against Fabrice Tourre, the only Goldman Sachs & Co. employee directly targeted by the agency in wake of the financial crisis. Here are four things to look for as the three-week trial unfolds.

District Judge John F. Keenan U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Appearances: For Plaintiffs: Edward Griffith, Esq. Silvia Bolatti, Esq., B

The SEC dug up some Wachtell publications from 2005 and 2007 to argue in a new filing that Wachtell knowingly gave Bank of America bad advice about how it should disclose $5.8 billion in bonuses approved for Merrill Lynch employees. But do those documents really support the SEC?

At the Justice Department, Mendelsohn pushed to make Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases a priority. In so doing, he generating a boom in demand for FCPA defense lawyers. Now he--and his new firm--are poised to benefit from his entry into the market he created.

Shareholders' lawyers will get to see whatever the bank has turned over to Congress, the SEC, the New York attorney general, and other investigators--including, most likely, the communications between BofA and its lawyers that have already been turned over to the government.

U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK James A. Janowitz William L. Charron Suyin So Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP Couns