Law Admin

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Transport & Trade Groups of the Melbourne offices of leading Australian firms Middletons, and Blake Dawson & Waldron will come together in a move to HFW. The office will be headed by 4 of Australia’s most distinguished maritime and trade lawyers, Robert Springall, Gavin

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A Securities and Exchange Commission advisory panel voted to recommend that only the largest 20 percent of public companies be required to have auditors vouch for the internal controls of the entity. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act currently imposes a review of internal controls of all publicly

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The law firm of Spector, Roseman & Kodroff, P.C. announces that a securities class action lawsuit was commenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Stone Energy Corporation (“Stone

NEW YORK – December 15, 2005 –LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Holland & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that 28 attorneys in the firm were recently elected to the partnership for 2006, according to Howell W. Melton, Jr., the firm’s managing partner. One associate and one senior counsel from the firm’s New

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A Moreno Valley man has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for collecting credit card account information through a waitress and other means, and using that information to generate counterfeit credit cards in his home. John Wesley Reshard, 42, was sentenced Wednesday by

New York – December 15, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised Stone Point Capital LLC and Harbor Point Limited in the capitalization of Harbor Point Limited and the closing of the acquisition of the ongoing assumed reinsurance business of Chubb Re, a subsidiary of The Chubb Corporation.

Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – SEC Chairman Christopher Cox met yesterday with Chairman Arthur Docters van Leeuwen of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) to discuss International Financial Reporting Standards and other potential agenda items for collaborative efforts in 2006. The chairmen expressed their support for

15 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A federal grand jury in Los Angeles this morning returned a 53-count indictment against Ralphs Grocery Company, the owner of about 300 Southland supermarkets, alleging that the company secretly rehired hundreds of locked-out employees under false names and false social security numbers during the 2003-2004

DETROIT, Dec. 15 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Four senior attorneys from the intellectual property team at Howard & Howard, including its leader, have joined the law firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC. Dickinson Wright is now one of the largest full-service providers of intellectual property and patent services in the state. Joining

14 December – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The European Commission has decided to ask France formally to modify its legislation preventing football and other sports clubs from being listed on stock markets. It views this as an unjustified barrier to the free movement of capital, in breach of the EC Treaty (Article