Qualcomm, Apple, Oracle.  Their GCs are moving around, and from this article, it seems as if they are playing musical chairs.  Is the music coming from Qualcomm’s "legal malpractice?"

"In a shuffle between companies with legal challenges spanning the globe, Apple Inc. general counsel Donald Rosenberg is leaving for Qualcomm Inc. after just 10 months in the post.

Oracle Corp. general counsel Daniel Cooperman will replace Rosenberg on Nov. 1, Apple said Friday.

Rosenberg joined Apple last November, when the maker of iPod players and Macintosh computers was in the thick of a stock options scandal. His predecessor there, Nancy Heinen, is now fighting civil charges that she fraudulently backdated stock-options awards to the executive team and a grant to CEO Steve Jobs.

Jobs has a reputation as a tough boss, and his Cupertino-based company maintains an overflowing plate of legal work. In addition to shareholder lawsuits, Apple stays busy building and defending a large portfolio of patents and faces copyright concerns and anticompetitive complaints from a string of European agencies over its iTunes-iPod franchise.

Rosenberg, who spent more than 30 years at International Business Machines Corp. before joining Apple, is jumping to another general counsel post brimming with challenges.

San Diego-based Qualcomm, the world’s second-largest provider of cellular phone chips, is under investigation in the U.S., Europe and Asia for antitrust claims. It also faces major legal battles with rivals Nokia Corp. and Broadcom Corp. over its patents.

Qualcomm’s most recent general counsel, Lou Lupin, resigned in August after a string of legal setbacks and an embarrassing rebuke by a San Diego judge who said Qualcomm was dishonest and committed ‘legal malpractice.’

Apple did not disclose why Rosenberg left.