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LAWFUEL – Law & Business News – Representation of Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (France), a provider of seismographic services and equipment to oil and gas companies, as co-counsel in its US$3.1 billion acquisition of Veritas DGC Inc., a provider of seismic data collection services to oil and gas companies.

Friday 8 September 2006 – LAWFUEL – Australia Law News – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has disqualified four company directors in New South Wales from managing corporations following their involvement in failed companies. ASIC has banned husband and wife IT service providers, Geoffrey Francis MacPherson and Joanne Kay MacPherson, for the maximum

DALLAS/HOUSTON/AUSTIN – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – A total of 26 partners from the Dallas, Houston and Austin offices of Gardere Wynne Sewell have been recognized among 2006’s “The Best Lawyers in America.” Published by Woodward/White Inc., “The Best Lawyers in America” is widely regarded as the preeminent referral guide to the legal profession

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced today that IRS-Criminal Investigation would join the local stock options backdating task force that was formed on July 12, 2006, to investigate alleged backdating of stock options with the intent to defraud in the Northern District of California. The task

Washington, D.C., Sept. 7, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the Division of Corporation Finance will recommend an amendment to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 concerning director nominations by shareholders. The staff proposal, still to be developed, will address issues raised

London, UK— LAWFUEL – UK Law News Daily – The London office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP (K&LNG) welcomes Trevor Beadle to its finance practice. Beadle comes to the firm from Dechert LLP. Beadle has a wide-ranging lender practice. He acts for commercial and investment banks, fund managers and international financial institutions. His

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – Tax & Business Law News – Jeffrey A. Meranto, 51, of Phoenix, Arizona, pleaded guilty to one count of Subscribing to a False Return and one count of Engaging in Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Specified Unlawful Activities. Meranto agreed with the facts stated in the Indictment that around October

Socialite/singer Paris Hilton was arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning on suspicion of drunk driving, as covered in LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Files’ from the San Francisco Chronicle. About LawFuel.com LawFuel.com is one of the Net’s largest pure-law news services, providing a cost-effective way for legal organizations to get their news onto Google News and

Attorney adds corporate litigation, transactional expertise to civil litigation firm DALLAS – The Law Offices of Heygood, Orr, Reyes & Bartolomei, a Texas civil litigation firm, is pleased to announce that Brian Cuban has joined as a partner. Mr. Cuban’s practice will focus on corporate litigation and transactional matters. “Businesses face a maze of legal

LawFuel.com’s lead story from the Internatinal Herald Tribune reports on European lawmakers on Thursday demanded to know the exact location of the secret prisons President Bush revealed the CIA operated overseas to interrogate terror suspects in what critics elsewhere in the world said was a system tacitly approving torture. About LawFuel.com LawFuel.com is one of