2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – Rudy Giuliani’s running to the bank with speakers fees post-9/11 if public records are anything to go by – are they, these days? According to documents obtained by Salon, the former NY Mayor has banked $9.2 million during 2006 and 2007, the average take appearing […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – After months of speculation, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson’s campaign says he will announce his official bid for the Republican presidential nomination on September 6. Thompson, who has a lengthy film and television career, in addition to years of political service, is slated to confirm his intention during a

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Police from two states quizzed sex monster Derek Ernest Percy for eight hours yesterday over a string of unsolved child murders throughout the country after uncovering a cache of sickening documents the killer had hidden in storage for decades. Almost 40 years after being jailed indefinitely for the murder

Legal experts agree with Senator Larry Craig that his guilty plea on a disorderly conduct charge was a mistake. A good lawyer could have made the charge go away, they say. Sen. Larry Craig has good reason to regret his guilty plea to a count of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport bathroom — according

Barclays moved to calm the speculation surrounding the surprise departure last week of Edward Cahill, a senior director in credit derivatives, saying that it had not put any pressure on him to resign and that it had met him this week to ensure an orderly transition of responsibilities. Mr Cahill has hired Mischon de Reya,

LAWFUEL- The Law Newswire – A Garden Grove man was charged today with violating the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act by stabbing a California sea lion which had to be euthanized. Hai Nguyen, 24, was named today in a criminal information filed this morning in United States District Court. Nguyen is charged with a misdemeanor

HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 30, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – The US Lawyer Newswire – The American Lawyer has announced the recipients of its fourth annual Lifetime Achievement Awards. This year’s award honorees are: James Baker III, Baker Botts, Houston; Thomas Gottschalk, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C.; Shirley Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster, Los Angeles; Nathaniel Jones, Blank Rome, Cincinnati; Ira Millstein, Weil,

Boston Scientific Corp. said it will pay almost $17 million to settle investigations by 35 states and the District of Columbia into the marketing of defective cardiac defibrillators by its Guidant Corp. unit. The settlement resolves state probes into whether Guidant officials hid defects in the implantable devices, which are designed to help users with