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EAST ALTON, Ill., Oct. 24 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Jeff Cooper, managing partner of SimmonsCooper LLC, announced today the launch of the firm’s new blog — which can be accessed at http://www.benzeneasbestos.com. The blog is designed to provide information to the media and public about asbestos, benzene, and other major issues

25 October – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has again reaffirmed its position as one of the world’s leading capital markets legal advisers in Thomson Financial’s debt and equity capital markets league tables for the third quarter of 2005. For the third quarter running, Linklaters has been named leading debt and equity

24 October – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A Lucerne Valley man has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his theft of nearly $200,000 from the labor union where he served as treasurer. William Harry Good Jr, 57, pleaded guilty on Friday to two felony counts of embezzling funds from the Ontario-based

Dallas — LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP announces the addition of Val J. Albright as a partner in the Firm’s tax services section. Mr. Albright’s practice includes advising clients concerning U.S. domestic and international tax matters, including for example, energy tax credits under the U.S. tax code. Prior to

24 October – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP announces that a class action lawsuit was filed today, on behalf of all persons who purchased or otherwise acquired the securities of Pixar (or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: PIXR), between January 18, 2005 and June 30,

Sheffield – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Roadside restaurant favourite Little Chef is under new ownership. The restaurant brand, which has operated throughout the UK for more than 40 years, has been purchased from private equity firm Permira by The People’s Restaurant Group for £52m. A team of legal acquisitions experts in the

24 October – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy is advising polling and market research group, Ipsos, on its agreement to acquire MORI Group Limited, the largest independently owned provider of market research in the UK. The transaction values MORI on an enterprise basis at £88 million. London-based corporate partner Andrew

London – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary (“DLA Piper”) today announces the expansion of its aviation finance team with the appointment of James Cameron as a partner. James joins from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s finance department. His specialisations include aircraft finance and leasing, structured and tax-based asset finance and

25 October – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy said today that Poland’s largest ever project finance development in the power sector, the EUR550 million Patnow II lignite-fired power plant, is a major boost to the nation’s power supply and has secured jobs in the mining and power sectors. The project,

BALTIMORE – October 24, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – M. Hamilton (“Tony”) Whitman, Jr., prominent Maryland lawyer and a principal in the law firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Whitman was selected for this distinction after