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Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan, & Aronoff LLP’s national Health Care Practice Group recently acted as health care regulatory counsel in connection with the investment of General Atlantic Partners, LLC in MultiPlan Inc., a nationwide preferred provider organization, and MultiPlan Inc.’s subsequent purchase of the US preferred provider organization operations of BCE Emergis Corp.

5 April 2004 – Linklaters has appointed Pim Horsten, a highly regarded Dutch capital markets partner, to its Amsterdam office. Pim, formerly a partner at Allen & Overy, has more than ten years of experience in a broad range of capital markets work including debt, equity-linked, equities and derivatives, as well as regulatory advice for

Stikeman Elliott LLP is the top-ranked Canadian law firm for Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Market deals during the first quarter in 2004, according to Bloomberg’s newly-released 2004 Canada M&A and Capital Market Results. Stikeman Elliott claimed the number one position by advising on transactions with a total volume of US $1,779 million, comprising 10.7%

A man who operates a website based on the science fiction television series “Stargate SG-1” made his first court appearance in Los Angeles yesterday on charges of streaming pirated copies of the show over the Internet. Adam Clark McGaughey, 35, of Cincinnati, Ohio, operated a website based on Stargate SG-1. As early as 2001, McGaughey

New Jersey, March 22 2003 was the best year ever for some class action lawyers and with the $325MM settlement in the Global Crossing case, 2004 is also shaping up as an excellent year for these attorneys, but many class action firms’ legal fees were down in 2003. Several of these firms used RD Legal

MENLO PARK, Calif., March 30 Law firms and corporate legal departments will be hiring more attorneys in the next 12 months, a new survey shows. Sixty-two percent of lawyers polled said they will be adding staff in the coming year. This is an increase over last year when 52 percent of attorneys said they planned

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Houston-based energy company Reliant Energy Services, Inc., and four of its officers have been charged in connection with a federal criminal investigation of the manipulation of the California energy markets, the Department of Justice announced today. A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned a six-count indictment today against Reliant Energy Services,

Atlanta (April 12) — The American Cancer Society announced today that Kilpatrick Stockton LLP has raised over $325,000 to establish the David M. Zacks Patient Resource Navigation Center. David Zacks, a partner with Kilpatrick Stockton and for whom the Patient Resource Navigation Center is named, was honored recently at the Board of Directors Meeting of

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has been retained to represent the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 cases of Parmalat USA Corp., et al., the U.S. dairy subsidiaries of Italian conglomerate Parmalat. The case is pending in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Chadbourne attorneys working on the

Washington, D.C. – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Scott L. Fredericksen has joined the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department. Fredericksen will focus his practice on white collar defense as a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance, and the Securities Litigation, Enforcement and Regulatory practices. “The addition of