2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Reports indicate that the CIA used what could be described as a ‘lying curtain’ to conceal from the world their interrogation and extrajudicial abductions of suspected al-Qaida militants in secret prisons in Poland and Romania. The Agency enlisted top officials in those countries to create and conceal the facilities, […]

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – The National Law Journal reports that Jenner & Block, a litigation-focused firm, is shifting between 15 and 20 of its equity partners to nonequity status this year with some being asked to leave the firm and a smaller number moving voluntarily toward retirement, according to people familiar with

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Sharon Waxman reports for the New York Times – The national obsession with celebrity collided head-on with the more serious issue of the equal application of justice on Friday, as a judge sent the socialite Paris Hilton back to jail some 36 hours after she was released for an

LAWFUEL – Business Law Newswire – JPMorgan, advised by Linklaters, has today won its High Court battle against ex-trader Daniel Ridgway, who sued the bank for USD$3.5m in an alleged lost incentive compensation. This is the latest in a series of recent cases in which the discretion of banks and City institutions to award bonuses

8 June 2007 – LAWFUEL – China Business Law Newswire – International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised 3Com Corporation on the US$430m leveraged financing of the acquisition from an affiliate of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. of the remaining 49 per cent ownership in H3C Technologies Co., Limited (formerly known as Huawei-3Com Co., Limited), its

LAWFUEL – The International Law Newswire – The International Bar Association (IBA) has launched a global survey on industrial espionage with the aim of gaining insight into how problematic and widespread this contemporary business practice has become. The investigation is the latest initiative of the IBA’s Criminal Law Committee following much debate on the topic

LAWFUEL – The American Law Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SANJAYA BAHEL, a former procurement supervisor at the United Nations, was convicted today in Manhattan federal court on all counts of an Indictment charging him with fraud and corruption. The evidence at

LAWFUEL – American Legal Newswire – Lancaster Community Hospital today paid the United States government $1.2 million to settle allegations that it improperly accounted for physical therapy costs on its Medicare cost reports and subsequently was overpaid by the federal health insurance program. The settlement resolves allegations made against Lancaster Community in a “whistleblower” lawsuit

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Ionia Management, a Greek company that manages a fleet of tanker vessels, was indicted today for its role in overboard dumping of waste oil from the M/T Kriton into international waters and their efforts to impede the United States Coast Guard and other authorities from learning of

DENVER – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Troy A. Eid, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that WILLIAM L. GLADNEY, aka “L” was sentenced this morning to serve life in federal prison without the possibility of parole by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger for federal racketeering charges related