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February 3, 2006, Washington, DC – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Reed Smith LLP, a top 25 international law firm, announces the addition of Gary Thompson as the newest partner in its Insurance Recovery Practice Group, resident in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, effective immediately. Mr. Thompson comes to Reed Smith from Gilbert,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2, 2006 — Netbula, LLC, a software company specializing in Internet development tools, announced that it filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corporation and certain known and unknown individuals and companies. The suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, alleges that Symantec and

Washington, D.C., Feb. 2, 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it filed an enforcement action against five former senior executives of General Re Corporation (Gen Re) and American International Group, Inc. (AIG) for helping AIG mislead investors through the use of fraudulent reinsurance transactions.

First Prosecution of a Peace Corps Volunteer for Sexually Assaulting a Minor While Working with the Peace Corps Abroad SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Timothy Ronald Obert, 38, of Santa Cruz, California, pleaded guilty today to sexually abusing a minor in Costa

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – 2 February 2006 – Allen & Overy LLP advised Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft (as arranger) in connection with the EUR6 billion debt issuance programme of the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt. By preparing and publishing a simplified base prospectus, under the Luxembourg Law on Prospectuses for Securities promulgated in July

MIAMI, Feb. 2 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Federal District Court Judge Alan Gold has granted preliminary approval of the settlement of a long-running dispute between Exxon Corporation and a class of its service station dealers under which Exxon will pay $1.075 billion and end its opposition to dealer claims in the

LAWFUEL- The Law News Network – In a crackdown on the illegal smuggling of contraband into the Metropolitan Detention Center-Los Angeles (MDC-LA), federal investigators have arrested three federal correctional officers and a former correctional officer now employed by the Department of Homeland Security on federal charges of accepting cash bribes in return for delivering cellular

TALLAHASSEE – Attorney General Charlie Crist today announced the arrest of a Texas man for soliciting a minor online after investigators with the Attorney General?s CyberCrime Unit were approached by the man through an internet chatroom. Acting on a tip from the Florida investigators, agents with the Dallas Police Department?s Internet Crimes Against Children Task

London, Dubai – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Following the appointment of Jayshree Gupta as Managing Partner of the Dubai office, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) has appointed two new partners and nine new associates. The two new partners are Chris P Sioufi, a banking and finance specialist, and Matthew Glynn,

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Laurie Griffen, of Redwood City, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and credit card fraud. Griffen admitted to stealing approximately $175,000 from MoMo’s Restaurant in San Francisco while she worked there as a bookkeeper from March 2003