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DALLAS – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – National law firm Fish & Richardson P.C. is pleased to announce the addition of Robert C. Earle as an associate in the firm’s Dallas office. Mr. Earle will practice intellectual property litigation. “The opportunity to practice at such a respected national firm is quite an honor”

TALLAHASSEE – Attorney General Charlie Crist and Office of Financial Regulation Commissioner Don Saxon today announced that Florida and 48 states plus the District of Columbia have signed the second largest consumer protection settlement ever with Ameriquest Mortgage Company and its parent company, ACC Capital Holding Corporation. Among the states that signed the $325-million agreement,

24 January – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced that defendant, Marc Wells, of Burlington, Vermont, pled guilty today in West Palm Beach in Case No. 05-80138-Cr-Hurley before U.S.

Winston-Salem (January 24) – Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announces the addition of Frank W. Leak Jr. to the firm’s Winston-Salem office. Mr. Leak joins as an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Prior to joint Kilpatrick Stockton, Mr. Leak was an associate with Alston & Bird, LLP in Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Leak’s practice will focus

. MIAMI, FL – January 22, 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Fitzhugh, Parker & Alvaro LLP (FP&A), New England’s largest minority-owned law firm, today announced that it has formed a partnership with Miami-based Adorno & Yoss (A&Y), the nation’s largest, certified minority-owned law firm. FP&A becomes Adorno & Yoss’ New England

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – We have all been appalled by the murder last week of our friend and colleague Tom ap Rhys Pryce. Tom was robbed and killed while walking the short distance from a tube station to his home last Thursday night (12 January). Since then we have been approached by

Palo Alto, January 22, 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Morrison & Foerster LLP is pleased to announce that James Pooley and Scott Oliver will join the Intellectual Property Group in its Palo Alto office as partners on February 1, 2006. Mr. Pooley, widely regarded as one of the top IP litigators

NEW YORK, Jan. 22 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Andrew Weissmann, who directed the government’s Enron Task Force and led the prosecutions of some of the most high-profile prosecutions of corporate malfeasance in recent history, will join the New York office of Jenner & Block as a partner, the firm announced today.

London, 22 January 2006 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie scooped two awards at this year’s Legal Technology Awards with the Firm’s global CIO, Sue Hall, named as IT director of the year and the Firm’s offshoring work in the Philippines as best outsourcing/offshoring project for 2006. Sue Hall was

LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Skadden is representing The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. as financial advisor to Alberto-Culver Company in its spin off and merger of Sally Beauty Company with Regis Corporation. The deal is reportedly valued at $2.6 billion.