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Brooklyn, NY – May 2004 –The New York State Appellate Division upheld a lower court ruling that struck the City of New York’s answer in a civil lawsuit arising from the shooting of an innocent bystander by an off-duty New York City Police Officer. The Court’s decision holds the City of New York and the

International law firm Allen & Overy’s partnership has voted unanimously to convert to a UK Limited Liability Partnership (LLP). Allen & Overy becomes the first international firm to become a UK LLP. Allen & Overy LLP, as the firm will be known from 1 May 2004, took advantage of new legislation which came into effect

The Commonwealth Attorney-General has released the results of the research and analysis of the Digital Agenda and related copyright reforms undertaken by leading commercial law firm Phillips Fox.

Seven individuals associated with a tax fraud group known as “We the People” were convicted today on various federal charges related to the promotion of bogus tax shelters that falsely promised to limit exposure to federal income taxes. A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted the seven on charges that included conspiring to defraud the

WASHINGTON, DC – May 3, 2004– International law firm Crowell & Moring LLP has taken on four experienced lawyers within the past few weeks, bolstering the practices in focused growth areas of antitrust, litigation and corporate law. In just a three-week stretch, the firm has added product liability litigation partner Clifford Zatz, who comes over

Houston, TX, May 3, 2004 – Baker & McKenzie has further strengthened its International Private Banking Practice with the addition of prominent international tax attorney Robert Colvin as a Partner in its Houston office. Colvin joins the Firm from Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin and brings over 17 years of international tax and private

ATLANTA and BOSTON, May 3, 2004 — INTA Annual Meeting — The PW Registry Corporation (http://www.pwregistry.pw) today announced services for trademark owners to police and protect their trademarks in the PW top-level domain, planned for general availability in the summer of 2004. Short for “Personal Web”, the PW domain is Internet’s only top-level domain extension

Chicago and New York, May 3, 2004 — Corporate attorney David H. Lee, recently a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has joined Kaye Scholer (www.kayescholer.com) as counsel in the firm’s Private Equity Practice in Chicago. At Kaye Scholer, he will continue to focus on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and venture capital and private

International law firm Allen & Overy has fortified its pensions practice with the promotion of associate Däna Burstow to partner. Ms Burstow joined A&O in 1993 as a trainee and from 1 May this year will be a partner specialising in pensions. The appointment is part of the promotion of 21 new partners throughout the

Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and William T. Sims, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, announce the indictment of nineteen people in a vast, complex check fraud ring in South Florida that has been operating for more than five years and that has resulted in at