2007

New York, May 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Dewey Ballantine LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that Hugh T. Scogin, Jr. has joined the firm’s Corporate Department resident in the Beijing office. Scogin, formerly a partner in the China practice group of Coudert Brothers, has more than 20 […]

LAWFUEL- The Law Firm News Wire – Litigation partners Michael Bennett and Joost Verlinden have been named as the new national heads of Linklaters’ litigation and arbitration practice in the UK and Belgium respectively. Michael Bennett has been with the firm for 18 years, becoming a partner in 1998. He has significant experience in commercial

Robert De Niro has filed an appeal against a lawsuit filed against him by insurers and relating to his prostate cancer diagnosis. The actor was sued by Fireman’s Fund Insurance in 2006 after he was diagnosed with the cancer, which lead to his inability to complete shooting the Film Hide and Seek, as scheduled. The

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – Skadden acted as U.S. and Hong Kong counsel to China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited in its US$5.4 billion dual-listed initial public offering, the world’s largest IPO to date this year. The IPO consisted of an offering of 4.9 billion H shares (listed on the Hong Kong Stock

Chicago, May 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL- The Law News Wire – Baker & McKenzie LLP represented the Spanish subsidiary of Barclays Bank plc, and part of Grupo Barclays España, Barclays Bank, S.A., as lender and agent in connection with a US$16,000,000 second mortgage financing and the first amendment to a US$51,000,000 first mortgage financing, in

LawFuel Lead Story Today – As combative, feisty and contrary as ever, Conrad Black has discussed his war with the US, his lawsuit strategy, his new 1100 Nixon biography and more with The Guardian. The disgraced former media tycoon Conrad Black is at war with the US government, he tells the Guardian in an exclusive

May 20, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Mystic, CT — Thomas A. Hatfield and Anne P. Hatfield today announce the opening of their law firm, Hatfield Legal Group, LLC, which will serve clients throughout Connecticut and New England. The full service firm, which serves clients in both domestic and international matters, provides

LawFuel.com – The Law News Wire – Patent law has become one of the law’s hottest areas, a niche that scientist-lawyers can use their technology knowledge to explain patent processes to juries. As reported in Forbes, from Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 18, 2007 LAWFUEL – Law News Wire — Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP filed a class action lawsuit on May 18, 2007 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded securities of BKF Capital Group, Inc.