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Milan – DLA Piper is pleased to announce the appointment of employment expert Aldo Calza as partner and Location Head of the Employment, Pensions & Benefits Group in Italy. Aldo will join DLA Piper from independent Italian law firm, Ripa di Meana LC & Associati, on 1 September 2007. Over the past 16 years, Aldo

NEW YORK & HYDERABAD, India–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – SQ Global Solutions, one of India’s premier legal process outsourcing (LPO) firms today announced that it has been ranked among the world’s top three providers of LPO services in the fourth annual “The Black Book of Outsourcing,” Brown-Wilson Group’s annual survey of outsourcing vendors. SQ

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Sport Law – The atmosphere as Michael Vick entered the federal courtroom in Richmond Virginia was of a surreal carnival as a plane drawing a banner circled above the Atlanta Falcons’ training camp. The banner read “New Team Name? Dog-Killers?” the International Herald Tribune reports. This was Vick’s day

BOCA RATON, Fla.–LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) today announced that the firm has been appointed Lead Counsel for the class of investors in the securities class action filed against International Coal Group, Inc. (“ICG”) (NYSE:ICO) and certain of its officers and directors, which is

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire –Bioenvision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BIVN) today announced that it has been named as a defendant in a securities class action lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York purportedly on behalf of sellers of the Company’s common stock during the period from May 1,

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – It appears another major, law firm merger is likely with talks between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis and Texas firm Hughes & Luce having reached an advanced stage, LegalWeek report. A deal is now set to be concluded by the end of the year. Discussions began in

BOSTON–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL Partners”) announced today that Thomas H. Lee Equity Fund V, L.P. (“the Fund”) has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP (“Mayer, Brown”) in connection with the

HAYWARD, Calif.-LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – IMPAX Laboratories, Inc. (OTC:IPXL) today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that Aventis Pharmaceutical’s patent 5,527,814 related to the use of Rilutek® for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is not invalid on the

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael E. Yasofsky, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, announced today the conviction of defendant Stephen J. Short, Jr. following a three day trial in Fort Pierce, Florida. Short was convicted of four

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A Boston-based buyout firm is suing Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw for $245 million in damages for allegedly helping Refco Inc defraud investors. Thomas H. Lee Partners, a closely held buyout firm, sued Mayer, Brown over the law firm’s representation of the defunct futures trader Refco Inc Bloombergs report.