2007

London LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – September 3, 2007 — The appointment enables the Riga law firm to extend its client service offering to include provision of a wide range of sophisticated, cross-border professional advisory services through MSI’s membership of carefully selected, highly skilled, independent professional firms located in 100 countries. Latvia has […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A big payday could be on its way for lawyrs who took a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp.if the settlement gets final approval in Polk County District Court today. AP report that Des Moines attorney Roxanne Conlin and Richard Hagstrom, an attorney with a Minneapolis law firm, are

LAWJOBSPIPELINE.COM – The Legal Career Blog – The American Lawyer “Paycheck Report” shows New York lawyers at the top of the associate pay heap, with the Watchell Lipton associates taking the top spot. The corporate powerhouse pays its third-years an above-market base rate of $190,000, but the real boost comes at bonus time, AmLaw reports.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Telecom has received High Court approval for its Scheme of Arrangement to return approximately $1.1 billion to shareholders. The capital return will see the cancellation of one ordinary share in every nine held by each shareholder on the record date – in return each Telecom shareholder will receive NZ$4.88

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The New Zealand Lawyer reports – One could be forgiven for thinking that all lawyers with one to two years’ experience are desperate to join the exodus overseas for pastures greener. However, I have it on good authority that not all New Zealand-trained lawyers hunger for the world beyond

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Sydney, 4 September 2007: An intellectual property expert with national law firm Hunt & Hunt says the investigation by the leading global regulating body for the Internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), into the practice of ‘domain tasting’ will be welcomed by Australian businesses. Domain tasting

By Andrew Abernethy, Partner and Chris Hay, Senior Associate | Tuesday 4 September 2007 New regulations governing the connection of distributed generation to lines company networks came into effect on 30 August 2007. Distributed generation is electricity generation that is physically located within an existing lines company network and which therefore does not export electricity

Melbourne, 4 September 2007: LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – After two weeks of intense competition, a team of law students from Monash University has emerged as the winner of the inaugural Victorian Charter of Human Rights Mooting Competition organised by the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law[1] and sponsored by national law firm Clayton

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Queensland legal profession has defended lawyers representing Dr Mohamed Haneef against Australian Federal Police claims that they have been “unprofessional and inappropriate” in releasing a media release about police-led interviews with the doctor in July, Lawyers Weekly reports. Haneef’s legal team last week released a 378 page transcript

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In her most desperate moments, Anna Nicole Smith feared that her lawyer boyfriend Howard K Stern played a role in her only son’s death, a shocking new book about the former Playboy Playmate’s demise alleges. Former employees of the ex-stripper claim they heard her screaming at Stern, “You did