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ATLANTA (May 18) — Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that Financial Transactions, Real Estate and Restructuring Department Partner, Al Lurey, is the 2007 recipient of the annual Atlanta Bar Association Bankruptcy Section David Pollard Award. Each year, the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Bar Association Bankruptcy Section presents the David Pollard Award to “a person

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Within days of claiming that she was too “emotionally traumatized and distraught” to stand trial in the lawsuit Zeta Graff vs. Paris Hilton, Case No. SC086295, self-described hotel heiress Paris Hilton was reported to be “clubbing” at a nightclub in Los Angeles. This raises questions about claims

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Conrad Black says he is confident no “jury in the world” would convict him on the testimony provided by the prosecution’s star witness after David Radler wrapped up two weeks of gruelling testimony in Black’s fraud trial Thursday. Radler was Black’s business partner for more than 30 years

Hong Kong May 18, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – The international law firm Jones Day today announced that it advised Hong Kong listed CITIC Resources Holdings Limited in a US$1 billion global offering of 6.75% senior notes issued by its subsidiary, CITIC Resources Finance (2007) Limited, and guaranteed by CITIC Resources.

U.S. hotel heiress and Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton abandoned her appeal of a 45-day jail sentence for violating the terms of her probation, according to court documents submitted here on Thursday. Hilton filed the papers in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, indicating she will not appeal the sentence. She earlier said the sentence was unfair

Friday 18 May 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned Mr Neil Louis Hartley, of Mackay, Queensland, from providing financial services for five years. Mr Hartley was an authorised representative for Mawson Securities (Mawsons), an Australian Financial Services Licensee. Mr Hartley resigned from Mawsons on

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – The Times reports that one of England’s largest regional law firms is weighing up plans for an eventual stock market listing of part of its business, just as Australia prepares to welcome the world’s first flotation of an entire law firm. On Monday Slater & Gordon, a

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Paul Wolfowitz, ending a furor over favoritism that blew up into a global fight over American leadership, announced his resignation as president of the World Bank Thursday evening after the bank’s board accepted his claim that his mistakes at the bank were made in good faith, the International

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Kerr-McGee Corp. will spend $18 million on pollution controls in the first comprehensive settlement under the Clean Air Act that will reduce harmful emissions and conserve natural gas at production facilities across Utah and Colorado. The control measures and operational improvements are expected to reduce annual

– Core Claims of FLSA Violations and Breach of Contract to Proceed to Next Phase – IRVINE, Calif.–LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Jackson|DeMarco|Tidus|Petersen|Peckenpaugh (“J|D|T|P|P”) announced that on May 15, 2007, in the case of Abbe, et al. v. the City of San Diego, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California