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Leeds, London – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) has appointed Chris Marks, leading property lawyer and until recently, National Head of Property at Hammonds, as a partner in its Leeds office. Chris will work alongside David Taylor, Global Head of Real Estate and Neil McLean, real estate

Strategic Lateral Partner Hire Bolsters International Litigation and Arbitration Practice LOS ANGELES, July 25, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP announced today that Gregory Evans, age 45, a nationally prominent trial lawyer and litigation attorney, has joined the Firm in its Los Angeles office. Prior to joining

MIAMI, July 24 LAWFUEL – Law News Network — The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP announced today the opening of its Tampa Bay office, its 27th office in the United States and the 8th office in Florida. Greenberg Traurig has approximately 1,600 lawyers and governmental professionals and has additional offices in Europe and Asia.

Washington, D.C., July 24, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Press Release Service – Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that Conrad Hewitt, a distinguished leader of the accounting profession and the former chief financial regulator for the State of California, will join the Securities and Exchange Commission as its next Chief Accountant. “Conrad Hewitt brings to the

BOSTON, July 21 LAWFUEL – News Release Network — Three veteran Boston Police Department officers were charged in federal court with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 100 kilograms of cocaine. The men were arrested in Miami, Florida late yesterday where they went to receive a $35,000 payment for protecting a Massachusetts drug shipment

Monday 24 July 2006 – Australian consumers seeking more bang for their buck are encouraged to go online and tune in to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) new six-part radio series, Your Money. Scheduled to go to air on community and local radio stations across Australia from this month, the series features on

WASHINGTON, July 21 LAWFUEL – Press release service — Les Weisbrod, a partner in the Dallas law firm of Morgan & Weisbrod, was elected to serve a one-year term as vice president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America during the organization’s 60th annual convention in Seattle, Wa. Weisbrod, who specializes in medical malpractice

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Cleary Gottlieb successfully assisted the European Commission in winning the dismissal of an appeal brought by Endesa before the European Court of First Instance in the ongoing battle for the control of Endesa. The judgment affirmed a European Commission decision declining jurisdiction to review the compatibility of the public

Unite Here Ordered to Pay $17.3 Million to Sutter Health Over Inflammatory SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 21 LAWFUEL – Law News network — One of the nation’s largest labor unions has been ordered to pay nearly $17.3 million in damages for defaming the not-for-profit Sutter Health network of doctors and hospitals. A jury in Placer County,

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – WilmerHale secured antitrust clearance from the US Federal Trade Commission for the $14.9 billion acquisition of the BOC Group by its client Linde AG. Linde and BOC are both international suppliers of industrial gases for a variety of applications in industries including chemical, electronic, food and healthcare. Linde’s acquisition