2 May 2009 – LawFuel.com – International Legal Newswire Service – Allen & Overy today announces 20 promotions to partner across 10 offices in 9 countries. The promotions, with effect from 1 May 2009, bring a record proportion of women into the partnership – 40 per cent of new partners are women – and, for
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What has the world come to when Cravath, Swaine & Moore has a terrible year? The firm that has served for decades as the touchstone for prestige in the profession last year suffered a 13 percent drop in revenue and a 24 percent plunge in profits per partner, and has asked incoming first-year associates to
LawFuel.com – Legal Announcements – May 2009 A global team of Skadden attorneys represented Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) and its subsidiary Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) in connection with its US$7.8 billion acquisition of Nikko Cordial Securities and related assets from Citigroup Inc. This transaction, announced on May 1, is significant for SMFG and
Toronto, Canada- GAO Research Inc. (www.GAOResearch.com) has released an updated version of its G.726 vocoder, which has been optimized for better performance.GAO’s G.726 vocoder complies with the ITU-T standard and operates at 40, 32, 24, and 16kbps. It is used in numerous applications such as speech transmission over digital networks, video conferencing, multimedia, and ISDN
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Many American presidents have been lawyers, but almost none have come to office with Barack Obama’s knowledge of the Supreme Court. Before he was 30, he was editing articles by eminent legal scholars on the court’s decisions. Later, as a law professor, he led students through landmark cases from Plessy v. Ferguson to Bush v.
Washington, D.C., May 1, 2009 – LawFuel.com – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the agenda and panelists for its May 5 roundtable to discuss short sale price tests and short sale circuit breakers. The roundtable will be held at the SEC’s headquarters at 100 F Street NE in Washington, D.C., and will begin
PHOENIX – LawFuel.com – Mercedes Howard, 29, of Sacaton, Ariz., was sentenced to 17 ½ years prison, by U.S. District Judge Frederick Martone on Wednesday, April 29. Howard had pleaded guilty on August 5, 2008 to Involuntary Manslaughter and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. The facts showed that on September 17, 2007, Howard was
DENVER – LawFuel.com – A federal grand jury in Denver has returned a 55-count indictment charging 22 defendants with conspiracy and other drug trafficking crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Weld County Drug Task Force, and the Longmont Police Department announced today. Of the 22 indicted, 14 were arrested this
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LawFuel.com – April 30 2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell advised Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated as the sole book-running manager on an SEC-registered follow-on offering by SandRidge Energy, Inc. of 17,480,000 shares of its common stock, of which 14,480,000 shares were sold by SandRidge and 3,000,000 shares were sold by a selling shareholder. The underwriters
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LAWFUEL.COM – WASHINGTON D.C. April 29, 2009 – Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that David L. Meyer, has joined the firm’s Washington D.C. office as a partner and Co-Chair of the Global Antitrust and Competition Law Practice Group. Meyer joins Morrison & Foerster from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, where
