2007

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – US firm Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw has become the latest in a string of firms to rebrand and will now practice under the banner Mayer Brown. Legal Week reports that the name change, which goes live on 1 September, sees the firm ditch the name of legacy […]

BOCA RATON, Fla.–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Multi-Media Productions (USA), Inc. announces that World Business Review, hosted by General Norman Schwarzkopf, is currently available to view via the WBRTV1 website: http://www.wbrtv1.com In this segment of World Business Review: Intelligentias (www.intelligentias.com) discusses data intelligence and how it assists Law Enforcement Agencies, Telco’s ISPs and Enterprises

LAWFUEL – A further six arrests have been made this morning (24/8/07) as part of the operation to clamp down on those people who may have been coming to this year’s Carnival to commit crime or cause trouble. The arrests this morning means a total of nineteen people have now been arrested as part of

TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued the following statement regarding the death of Holmes County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Galloway: “I am saddened to learn of Holmes County Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Galloway’s tragic death. Another member of our state’s law enforcement community has given his life in

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – James Ford Seale, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, was sentenced today to three life terms in prison for his role in the 1964 abductions and eventual slayings of two African-American men. Seale was convicted by a federal grand jury in Mississippi on June 14,

The full details of what happened on the night Madeleine McCann went missing are revealed today, ThisisLondon has revealed. An investigation has pieced together the events on the night the four-year-old vanished from the family’s apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal almost four months ago. It shows that the abductor is most likely to

Actor David Hasselhoff received some welcome good news on the legal front today when he won undisclosed libel damages from OK! magazine over claims that he was drunk and abusive at a nightclub. The BBC reports that the publication’s UK and US editions have also agreed to print an apology for making the allegations. The

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The families of six trapped miners are “waiting for a miracle,” their spokesman said, as rescuers made one last attempt to find the missing men and lawmakers in Washington announced twin probes into safety at the mine. Sonny Olsen, an attorney acting as spokesman for the families, said late

LAWJOBSPIPELINE – The Legal Career Blog – A Daily Telegraph report that LawFuel picked up yesterday showed that the top 100 law firms in Britain collected more than £12bn in fees over the last year and the best-paid partners netted more than £2m each from their share of profits. Not too shabby, you may think.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – With international business markets booming at an unprecedented level, there has never been a better time to be a global law firm – especially if you bill in sterling. With the opening sentence of last year’s Global 50 survey, Legal Business announced that UK firms – for so long