2007

IRVINE, Calif., August 30, 2007 – Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP today announced the opening of its first office in Orange County. The firm’s growing real estate practice and increased clientele in the Orange County area prompted Luce Forward to open its sixth office location. The new office is located in Irvine, Calif. Luce […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – It was intended to be Madeleine McCann’s first day at school. But after 119 days with no news of her whereabouts and growing fears that she is dead, life is starting to carry on without her. Head teacher Gail Neill will say a prayer later today during a special

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A leading Brisbane barrister who has helped improve Zimbabwe’s legal system has been appointed to the Queensland Supreme Court. Former Australian Bar Association president Glenn Martin SC was admitted as a barrister in 1979 and appointed senior counsel in 1998. The 51-year-old was one of the inaugural chairs of

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon is to seek urgent clarification about just what Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has done in delaying his approval of the Gunns pulp mill. Mr Lennon said the Tasmanian parliament was likely to vote overwhelmingly in favour of the $2 billion pulp mill plan when it

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – California plaintiff’s lawyer William S. Lerach yesterday told his partners that he would resign this week to resolve a long-running criminal investigation into his tactics and business practices. With Lerach’s departure, his name will be stripped from Lerach Coughlin, the 180-lawyer San Diego firm he founded three years

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child – shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3, the Washington Post reports. His teachers said he began showing suicidal and homicidal tendencies by the eighth grade. A new report

Wellington, NZ – 30 August 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Wellington company director is to be dishcharged without conviction on tax charges, following the decision of District Court Judge John Walker yesterday, who said the consequences of a conviction on the charges would be out of all proportion to the gravity of

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Skadden was honored by Turnaround Management Association with its 2007 Mega Company Turnaround of the Year Award for our work on the Winn-Dixie Stores’ restructuring. The award follows Skadden wins from the association in 2006 for Large Company Turnaround for our representation of Friedman’s Inc. and Large Company

The NSW Government will consider scrutinising telephone calls as part of a series of new measures to stop the abuse of the privileged relationship between lawyers and their clients in prisons. Three lawyers are among 467 people who have been banned from NSW prisons after a cache of weapons, mobile phones and other contraband was

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In a settlement with the Commerce Commission, Dell New Zealand Limited has admitted breaching the Fair Trading Act in relation to a number of different representations made about its computers and computer monitors. Dell New Zealand had come to the Commission’s attention as a result of a number of