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New York, NY (January 24, 2006) Heller Ehrman LLP today announced that three labor partners, Kenneth Kirschner, James R. Hays and Jonathan Stoler, have joined the firm’s New York office. Mr. Kirschner (formerly Chair of Kelley Drye & Warren’s Labor and Employment Practice Group) will be the head of Heller Erhman’s labor and employment practice

Major development to both firms’ international networks 23 January 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – International law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP and leading Italian law firm Studio Legale Tonucci are delighted to announce that they have entered into an alliance to ensure clients have access to top-tier legal services

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Fifteen real estate attorneys from the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary are named in the 2006 edition of The International Who’s Who of Real Estate Lawyers, the latest honor for the premier practice group. “We are delighted with this exceptional achievement,” said Francis B. Burch, Jr.,

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Mallesons Stephen Jaques has acted for AMP Capital Investors on the establishment of and US$102 million capital raising for The Infrastructure Fund of India. The Fund invests in businesses involved in the development, ownership or operation of infrastructure in India. The Fund’s establishment and financing is governed by

NEW YORK- LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Jan. 23, 2006–Lasky & Rifkind, Ltd., a law firm with offices in New York and Chicago, announces that a lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce intends to ask the SEC to relax a rule governing the retention of audit firms that the agency has implemented under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. The Chamber of Commerce wants the SEC to allow accounting firms to perform to perform audits for any company

Global pro bono report to be presented at World Economic Forum 2006, in Davos LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters this week publishes a report identifying barriers to social entrepreneurship and offering practical solutions to help it flourish. The study, the first of its kind, is being presented at the annual World Economic

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the Attorneys General and banking regulators of 48 states today announced a $325 million agreement with the nation’s largest subprime mortgage lender to overhaul its existing sales, appraisal and closing practices. Under the agreement, Ameriquest Mortgage Company will pay $295 million in restitution

BOSTON- LAWFUEL -The Law News Network -Jan. 23, 2006–Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, has been ranked 24th in Boston Business Journal’s annual ranking of the area’s 100 largest law firms. With the addition of 42 attorneys since January 2005 – a 182.6-percent

ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-Jan. 23, 2006- LAWFUEL – The Law News Network -The Sports Authority, Inc. (NYSE:TSA), announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by Green Equity Investors IV, L.P., an affiliate of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. and including members of Sports Authority’s senior management