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OAKLAND – LAWFUEL – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced today that Jack Easterday, of Alameda, was charged in a superseding information with 62 additional counts, for a total of 109 counts of willful failure to truthfully account for and pay over payroll taxes owed to the government. Mr. Easterday is the owner of

CHICAGO – Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States, is pleased to announce that Eric D. Cohen has joined the firm as counsel. Mr. Cohen will focus his intellectual property practice on patent prosecution in the electrical arts, as well as in the areas of

LAWFUEL – US Commercial Law – Business & Law News – From Skadden Arps – “M&A Today – Practical Thoughts for Directors and Deal-Makers” The Business Lawyer, August 2005 Peter A. Atkins August 2005, Volume 60, Number 4- Upload PDF Version

LawFuel.com lead story: It was a law firm merger that was to never be. The planned merger between Dewey Ballantine and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has been abandoned amid wrangling over management control, ending one of the most anticipated combinations of the year. The firms’ London offices were putting on brave faces in the wake

A £4m campaign to promote GDA labels, which show the guideline daily amounts of sugar, salt, fat and calories in each serving, will be launched on Monday by some of the UK’s largest food manufacturers. This action has reignited the debate over food labelling, but food law experts at Eversheds LLP say that experimenting with

Initially Charged with Perjury; Defendant Was Later Arrested with Egyptian Passport and $20,000; While in Jail, Defendant Attempted to Intimidate Witnesses and Solicited the Arson of Witness’ Car SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Amr Mohsen, a former chairman and CEO of a high-tech company, Aptix Corporation, was

LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL –Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, the national law and consulting firm, announced today that Becky S. Walker, Chief of the Criminal Appeals Section in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office, will join Manatt’s Litigation Division Appellate Practice on February 20, 2007. Ms. Walker has practiced in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office since

LAWFUEL – A Riverside man was arrested this morning on federal bribery charges after allegedly receiving the latest in a series of bribes from the general contractor in charge of the construction of a psychology building on the campus of the University of California, Riverside. Theodore Chiu, 53, was arrested on the UCR campus without

New York, NY and London – LAWFUEL – UK—Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (“K&L Gates”) today announced the launch of its first Continental European office in Berlin, Germany. The office will be staffed by partners who formerly practiced in the Berlin office of Taylor Wessing, an international firm of British and German origins.