Defense Department official Charles Stimson showed ignorance and malice in deploring the pro bono representation of Guantanamo detainees by lawyers in some of the nation’s leading law firms, and in calling on their corporate clients to punish them for this work. That some of the law firms Mr. Stimson singles out represent large employers defending
LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Karen P. Tandy, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, announced that Ze’ev Rosenstein today pled guilty to conspiracy to import Ecstasy and conspiracy to
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Foley Attorneys Pen Chapter of “Getting the Deal Through” Series Washington, D.C.— LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that the firm’s Environmental Regulation Practice has been selected to contribute the U.S. law chapter in a book summarizing the environmental laws of 25 countries. The book is the latest in
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New York, (January 16, 2007) – LAWFUEL – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, represented Fila Korea Ltd. in its acquisition of the global Fila footwear and apparel business from Sports Brand International Ltd. The sale is structured as a sale of SBI’s subsidiary, Fila Luxembourg, which holds
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LAWFUEL – M&A News – New research from DLA Piper reveals no end in sight for the M&A boom witnessed in 2006, with one third of European corporates and almost 40 percent of private equity houses expecting their acquisition rate to increase over the next two years. Only one in ten corporates and one in
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Lawfuel.com’s Hot Files – Saddam Hangings – Iraq Executions – Video – Reports that Iraq film of the executions of two Saddam aides could have been directed by Mel Gibson, given their gore. But perhaps we’re just looking at this sort of thing in a post-modern sort of way. After all, the bastards are dead
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London, 15 January 2007 – LAWFUEL – Business Law News – Baker & McKenzie, London has advised both TAG Group (Holdings) S.A. and Ron Dennis CBE (McLaren Group Chairman & CEO) on the sale of a 30% strategic stake in McLaren Group Limited to Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, a company wholly owned by The Ministry
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London -LAWFUEL – Business & Law News Network – Allen & Overy LLP are advising Smiths Group plc on the USD 4.8 billion sale of Smiths Aerospace division to General Electric Company, and on a proposed joint venture with GE to form Smiths GE Detection. Following the sale of Smiths Aerospace, Smiths board of directors
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Lawfuel.com – Iraq Saddam Hanging Video – Iraq officials filmed the double hanging of Saddam’s half brother and another aide, but say they will not release the footage of the executions.
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Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and another former aide to the executed Iraqi president stood side by side on the scaffold today, in official film of their hanging shown to journalists by the Iraqi Government. Moments later, as the trapdoors swung open, they dropped and the rope severed the hooded head of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam’s younger
