2007

LAWFUEL – Law Jobs News Wire – Law firm Chapman Tripp has promoted six new principals; Jackie Floyd (Auckland), Nick Lough (Wellington), Clare Sinnott (Wellington), Catherine Somerville (Auckland), Tim Tubman (Auckland) and Jeff Walters (Wellington). Floyd specialises in corporate and commercial law and has extensive experience in the energy industry, Lough specialises in corporate and […]

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – A consortium of UK Law Firms have today launched a national free insurance policy for road users which aims to challenge the murkier practices of the insurance industry and motoring organisation which routinely sell on personal injury claims to the highest bidding claims-handling solicitor £700+. The new policy,

LAWFUEL – The Legal News Wire – Sullivan & Cromwell LLP today announced that litigation partner Samuel W. Seymour will be the recipient of the 2007 John J. McCloy Award, which recognizes lawyers who have made outstanding contributions to improving the administration of justice in New York State. The award was announced by Victor A.

TYLER, TEX. (May 25, 2007) – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – A team of Morrison & Foerster attorneys and their co-counsel have won dismissal of a patent infringement case brought against client EchoStar Communication Corp. after a Texas jury took just over an hour to find the plaintiff’s patent invalid. It was

LAWFUEL – Sports Law News Wire – Faced with the opposition of Stanford and Cal, the NFL has changed courses on its efforts to trademark the phrase “The Big Game.” It has decided to punt, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Friday it abandoned its applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – United States appeals court rejected on Friday an attempt by disappointed Formula One fans to get their money back for having to watch the 2005 US Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Reuters report. The seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, in a 3-0 decision, upheld a

LAWFUEL – Law News Wire – British prosecutors could charge Andrei Lugovoi’s friend and business partner Dmitry Kovtun of involvement in the murder of former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax reports. According to the materials of the criminal case, Kovtun is thought to be his accomplice, well-informed sources in

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Clifford Chance announces its financial results for the year ended 30 April 2007 Clifford Chance today announced that revenues increased by 16% to £1,194 million (2006: £1,029 million) for the financial year ended 30 April 2007. Excluding the effect of exchange rate changes, underlying growth was 18%. Average

SEATTLE, May 25 LAWFUEL – Law Jobs & Law News Wire — The board and staff of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle send our condolences to King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng’s family, friends and staff on Mr. Maleng’s sudden death. Mr. Maleng’s ongoing commitment to justice over his accomplished career made our King County

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Amid signs that Portugese police are making little effort in tracking the abductor of four-year-old Madeleine McCann, a team of British specialists has arrived in Portugal to attempt to trace the offender by following a trail left by mobile phone signals around the Algarve resort where Madeleine was