2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Former astronaut Lisa Nowak plans to claim she was temporarily insane when she attacked Colleen Shipman on Feb. 5 at the Orlando International Airport. Her attorney, Donald Lykkebak, filed a notice of this type of defense late Monday with the Orange County Clerk of Courts. Some of the reasons […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Jones Day has advised Sunsuper on its $A 116 million cash offer (subject to adjustment) to acquire Colonial First State Private Capital Limited (CFI). Sunsuper is a leading Australian superannuation (pension) fund with $A 12 billion of funds under management. CFI is an Australian Securities Exchange listed investment company

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Cravath represented IBM in its acquisition of WebDialogs, Inc., a privately held provider of Web conferencing and communication services. The lawyers involved in this matter are partner George F. Schoen, associate D. Scott Bennett and summer associate Ariane Vinograd on corporate matters; partner Andrew W. Needham and associate J.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – From American Lawyer – The Washington office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is perched on Pennsylvania Avenue, about halfway between Congress and the White House. It holds a commanding view of the National Archives, and during the summer, Navy bands in starched white uniforms often play music at the nearby

Southwestern Resources Corp., plunged deep in a mining scandal, is suing ex-CEO John Paterson, accusing him of fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and insider trading after an investigation showed alteration of assay results at its Boka gold project in southern China. While there were still indications of gold mineralization in drill samples and historical mine

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Child sex abuse charges against a former St Peter’s College chaplain have been formally dropped in the District Court. Prosecutors today withdraw eight counts laid against the Reverend John Mountford following his extradition from Thailand in February 2005. Mountford, 52, was due to face trial next month but prosecutor

BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 27 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — With the announced resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today, the Second Amendment Foundation is urging President Bush to make a very careful search for his replacement. “We’re hoping that the next attorney general will be like the president’s first attorney general, John Ashcroft, someone

CINCINNATI, Aug. 27, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) has filed a patent lawsuit against Kraft Foods Inc., manufacturer of the Maxwell House Coffee brand. The lawsuit, filed in the United States Federal District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, alleges that the

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Members of the Russian security services were involved in a conspiracy with organised crime to assassinate Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist, the country’s chief prosecutor announced yesterday, as reported by The Times. See LawFuel.com – The Net’s Law Newswire

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Atlanta Falcons informed Michael Vick and his representatives in a letter yesterday that they intend to force the quarterback to return a portion of the $37 million in bonuses that his 10-year, $130 million contract contains, the Washington Post reports. The Falcons’ decision came as Vick formally entered