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4 May – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge for the Miami Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and James Kohm, Acting Associate Director, Division of Marketing Practices, Federal Trade Commission, announced today that late yesterday the president of a failed

SEATTLE -May 5, 2004- LAWFUEL – Computer Forensics Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of computer discovery services, is hosting an intensive, 1 1/2-day clinic later this month to help litigators understand the various technical issues, challenges and timing factors involved with digital data discovery. The “Data Discovery Boot Camp” will take place on

May 3, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Merrill Lynch & Co. on an SEC-registered offering by Royal Bank of Canada of $130 million of 5.495-percent notes due 2019. We also advised J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and RBC Capital Markets Corporation and the other underwriters on an SEC-registered offering by Royal Bank

Washington, DC- LAWFUEL – Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (K&L) is pleased to announce that Michael J. King has joined its Washington office as a partner in the securities enforcement and financial services practice groups. King comes to K&L from Clifford Chance US LLP. His prior experience also includes service as Chief Counsel and Chief Litigation

RIVERSIDE, Calif.- May 5 – LAWFUEL – The law firm of Marshack Shulman Hodges & Bastian LLP (MSHB) today announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court in Riverside, California has entered an order confirming the bankruptcy plan of reorganization for Swiftcomm, Inc. Swiftcomm, a privately held California corporation based in Riverside, operates a state of

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26 – LAWFUEL – Piper Rudnick LLP announced today that Steven B. Feirman, a partner in the firm’s Franchise and Distribution practice group, has won the 2004 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for his article “The Legality of Rebates from Suppliers.” The Burton Award is dedicated to the enrichment and refinement of

4 May, 2004- LAWFUEL – IP Law & Business Magazine recently ranked Kilpatrick Stockton’s Patent Litigation Practice 19th out of all US firms. Kilpatrick Stockton’s ranking is in the category of “Firms that Defended the Most Cases.” To be eligible, cases had to be filed in 2003. For more information on Kilpatrick Stockton’s Intellectual Practice,

WASHINGTON, D.C. – LAWFUEL – The United States Bankruptcy Court presiding over WorldCom, Inc.’s bankruptcy petitions has authorized the company to enter into a settlement with the United States, the Justice Department announced today. The court approved WorldCom’s agreement to pay the government $27 million to settle claims that it defrauded the General Services Administration

4 May – LAWFUEL – Chadbourne Represented Irish Investors in Polish Property Purchase from German Investors Chadbourne & Parke represented a group of private Irish investors in the purchase of a major retail/office investment in Warsaw for 60m Euros, in a share purchase deal in which the property was acquired from German investors. Capital Partners,

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 4 – LAWFUEL – Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the world’s leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services, today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Securities Class Action Services (SCAS), has released its list of the top 50 plaintiffs’ law firms ranked by the total dollar amount of final securities class action