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New York, October 25, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Dewey Ballantine LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, two leading global law firms, announced today that the firms’ respective Management and Executive Committees have made initial recommendations to their partners about combining into a new firm named Dewey Orrick LLP that

Ivy Kagan Bierman and Susan Zuckerman Williams Honored by Women’s Image Network with WOW! Awards LOS ANGELES – October 25, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that Ivy Kagan Bierman and Susan Zuckerman Williams, both partners in the Entertainment Department in the Los Angeles office, have

Relief Includes Officer-and-Director Bar and Nearly $2.4 Million in Disgorgement and Interest Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – The Securities and Exchange Commission today settled civil fraud charges against the former Chief Financial Officer of Comverse Technology, Inc., David Kreinberg, under an agreement which provides for the payment

Served as Pro Bono Partner at Chadbourne since 1999 New York, NY – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – October 24, 2006 – Bernard W. McCarthy, recently retired as Pro Bono Partner at Chadbourne & Parke LLP, was the honoree on October 19 at “Raising the Bar,” an event to benefit the Legal Services

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –Just two weeks before the first scheduled trial in the Texas state-wide proceedings, a Texas woman has dropped her VIOXX suit against Merck & Co. This is the fourth case set for trial in the Texas state-wide proceedings to be dismissed before trial could even begin. The

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), of trading of the securities of Conversion Solutions Holdings Corp. (“Conversion”), of Kennesaw, Georgia at 9:30 a.m. EDT on October 24, 2006, and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EST on November 6, 2006.

DENVER – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Troy A. Eid, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn for the District of Colorado found the promoter of a fraudulent tax avoidance program, Austin Gary Cooper, formerly of Fort Collins, Colorado, guilty of criminal contempt.

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Attorney General Charlie Crist today sent a letter to Kevin J. Martin, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, urging the FCC to reject a plan that could cost local telephone customers nationwide more than $6.9 billion per year. The so-called Missoula Plan could increase residential telephone

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – An Alhambra CPA and the CEO of a large wholesaler of Asian dry goods have pleaded guilty to wire fraud and other crimes stemming from elaborate schemes that defrauded HSBC Business Credit (USA) out of $48 million through a series of fraudulently obtained credit lines, United States Attorney