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LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – Philip Marshall QC, of Serle Court, acted for KPMG, the administrators of Lexi Holdings Plc, a company previously operated by Shaid Luqman, who had featured in The Sunday Times Rich List. Luqman was sentenced to 18 months for breaching court orders for the delivery of documents and assets in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Allen & Overy (A&O) has once again come out on top of the latest global project finance league tables, leading its rivals by value and volume for the first half of 2007, Legal Week reports from London. Research by Infrastructure Journal shows A&O on top after advising on 35

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Robert Scott Weisberg was a lawyer with everything – a profitable law practice, another side business, newsstand Shinders, a beautiful home and wife. But now his personal and professional fall leaves his life in tatters. How can a lawyer’s life turn so bad? See LawFuel’s lead story from the

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A high court adviser says Internet service providers are not required to disclose data on people suspected of music piracy, BusinessWeek reports. Internet service providers (ISPs) are not obliged to hand over information on people suspected of illegally sharing music and other copyright material online, an advisor to the

CHICAGO – The Chicago Tribune reports that Gov. Rod Blagojevich spent more than $163,000 from his campaign fund to pay a prominent Chicago law firm this year, according to campaign finance records filed Friday, bringing the total in legal fees to more than $1.1 million since a federal investigation into his administration ramped up in

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Skadden client Norfolk Southern Railway Company won final court approval of a class action settlement of personal injury claims resulting from exposure to chlorine released following a Jan. 6, 2005 train collision and derailment in Graniteville, South Carolina, that resulted in nine deaths and caused the evacuation of

Washington, D.C., July 20, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – SEC Chairman Christopher Cox issued the following statement concerning disclosures filed with the Commission concerning public company activities in countries that the U.S. Secretary of State has determined to have repeatedly supported terrorism: Since the SEC added to our Internet site a web

Washington, D.C., July 20, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today brought settled enforcement actions against four former executives at SmartForce PLC, the company’s former outside auditor, and its former audit engagement partner in connection with the software company’s overstatement of revenue by $113.6 million and net income

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Three exeuctives of the OxyContin maker and the company have been fined over $634 million for misleading the public over the drug’s addiction risks. The Connecticut-based research-based, privately-held pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma LP revealed that the company and three of its executives, including lawyer and former president and former