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National Diversity Leader for Five Years in a Row LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – For the fifth consecutive year, Morrison & Foerster has been ranked #1 in Diversity nationwide by the independent research company Vault in its 2005-2006 legal survey. The firm also ranked #1 nationally for Diversity with Respect to Minorities, #2 with

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Name: Implementation Rules for Margin Financing and Securities Lending Business on Trial Basis in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (上海证券交易所、深圳证券交易所融资融券交易试点实施细则) (“the Implementation Rules”) Issuing authority: Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange Effective date: 21 August 2006 Subject: margin financing and securities lending business Further to

EAGAN, Minn., Aug. 25 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network — The Honorable Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York today granted Northwest Airlines’ request for a preliminary injunction to prevent a threatened strike or work action by the company’s flight attendants, represented by the Association of Flight

LAWFUEL – Law Technology News – On September 28, Cravath Deputy Presiding Partner Evan R. Chesler will speak at The Hildebrandt Institute’s Fifth Annual Legal Technology Leadership Forum in New York City. Evan will serve as a panelist for a discussion moderated by Professor Arthur Miller and entitled “A Blessing or Curse? Technology Views from

PHOENIX Ariz. – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – A federal jury in Phoenix found Benjamin Brown, 39, of Atlanta, Georgia, guilty on August 22, 2006 of Conspiracy to pass altered Postal Money Orders, and theft of Government funds. The case was tried before United States District Court Judge Stephen M. McNamee. Sentencing is set

Fined $10 Million for Role in Laundering $44 Million From Ukranian Citizens Through Extortion and Fraud SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Pavel Lazarenko, a former Ukrainian Prime Minister, was sentenced today to nine years imprisonment and ordered to pay a $10 million fine

LAWFUEL – Law News Daily – LawFuel.com, the law news and press release service has launched its video news service with a spoof video of the Saddam Hussein trial in Iraq. Saddam has called a surprise witness who appears to assist him in his trial. Check the video at the lawfuel.com website at http://www.lawfuel.com/tv About

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Thomas S. Winkowski, Director, Field Operations, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), announced that defendants Ji Wu Chen and Meihua Li were sentenced today

NEW YORK – LAWFUEL – Class Action News – Aug. 25, 2006–In the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, in the case known as the In re Williams Securities Litigation, Case No. 02-CV-72-SPF-FHM, a summary notice pertaining to the WCG Subclass has been issued as follows: Summary Notice of Pendency of

LawFuel – Press Release Service – Skadden Arps represented Rite Aid Corporation, a chain of retail drugstores, in its US$3.4 billion acquisition of the Brooks Eckerd drugstore chain from The Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc. (Canada), an owner of drugstores in the U.S. and Canada.