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Halloran & Sage Products Liability and Risk Management Partner Bruce H. Raymond will be participating as a speaker at the 2004 DRI Joint International Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Raymond will focus his presentation on the area of Construction Defect Litigation, and will • Explore the current problems facing the construction and insurance industries in

Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Brian J. Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Miami Field Office, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging John L. “Jack” London,

International law firm Allen & Overy advised H&R WASAG AG, Salzbergen, on the purchase of the worldwide special refinery activities of mineral oil company BP. This follows on from Allen & Overy advising the company on the acquisition of the European BP special refinery ranges in October 2003. In both transactions, Allen & Overy worked

The Spam Act will come into force on 10 April 2004, prohibiting the sending of unsolicited commercial electronic messages that have an Australian link. The impact on some Australian business practices could be substantial, according to Duncan Giles, Special Counsel at Freehills, as not only will they risk significant fines (of up to $1.1 million

Clifford Chance appoints 18 new partners Clifford Chance, the international law firm, today announced the promotion of 18 lawyers to the partnership, from the firm’s 32-office global network. The total number of partners at Clifford Chance from 1 May 2004 will be 641. Emma Davies, a Corporate lawyer based in Shanghai, and Frances Wong, a

Halloran & Sage Environmental Law and Land Use Partner David B. Losee has been appointed for a four year term, to the 18-member National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (“Council”) of the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) by Tommy G. Thompson, the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mr. Losee joins five other

New York, April 8, 2004—Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, will sponsor a Tuesday, April 13, 2004, luncheon seminar on recent developments in the intersection of celebrity publicity rights, the First Amendment and defamation. The seminar, which is designed for in-house counsel, will be held from 12:30 p.m. to

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2004 – Holland & Knight announced today that Helen E. Disenhaus has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as a partner in the Telecommunications Group. Ms. Disenhaus brings more than 25 years of telecommunications experience to the firm, including experience in wireline, wireless and satellite services regulation and broadcast and cable

A former assistant administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency was indicted today on federal wire fraud charges for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from a client who had hired her San Diego County company to assist in the clean-up of a Superfund site. Rita Marie Lavelle, 57, of Temecula, who

Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Brian Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, announced today the conviction of defendant Lauda Mojica on eight separate counts of making false claims to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in tax filings which the defendant prepared for