2007

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Defence lawyers at the Conrad Black fraud trial will likely begin their case this week by telling jurors that the embattled media mogul behaved like any other media executive when he took disputed payments and is in no way the criminal prosecutors have depicted, the Montreal Gazette reports. […]

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Air France-KLM ran up US legal costs of €10m ($13.4m) in the past financial year fighting class-action suits against the group for its role in alleged price-fixing of freight rates in its air cargo operations but has yet to make any provision for these costs in its accounts,

LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Recently-floated Australian law firm Slater & Gordon will use its booming share price and $2.3 million in debt to buy a small Queensland law firm that specialises in military compensation claims. The deal was unveiled yesterday, one week after Slaters became the first law firm to list its shares

LAWFUEL – USA Today reports that the owners of dead or injured animals are expressing anger and frustration at getting repeated telephone calls that a federal judge has called “abusive and harassing” from the company at the heart of the contaminated pet food scandal. Claire Moonjian of Georgetown, S.C., lost her dog, Sophie, to kidney

Tuesday 29 May 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission notes that the directors of Australian Capital Reserve Ltd (ACR) yesterday resolved to place ACR and other companies in the Estate Property Group (EPG) into voluntary administration. The administrators of the companies are Colin Nicol, Scott Kershaw, Murray

Tuesday 29 May 2007 LAWFUEL – The Australia Law News Wire – On 25 May 2007 the Honourable Justice Dodds-Streeton handed down her reasons for decision following the Supreme Court of Victoria’s inquiry into the conduct of Mr Robert John Edge as liquidator, administrator and deed administrator of 24 companies. Mr Edge, 57 of Kew

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Proposed new anti-terror laws in Britain could give police greater powers to stop and question anyone in the UK, a measurer being considered by the Home Secretary, the BBC reports. The proposal, allowing police to ask people about their identity and movement, is among measures being considered by

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The American Lawyer reports about issues that have arisen at the LA office of McGuireWoods over settlement of a lawsuit. Eliot Disner is out of a job, less than a week after court filings made public his objections to the $49 million settlement negotiated by his firm, McGuireWoods,