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New York – August 28, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Announcements – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Pernod Ricard in its agreement to sell the Cruzan rum brand and related assets to Fortune Brands for an amount of US $100 million (€68 million). Pernod Ricard also signed an agreement with Fortune Brands for

LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Miami Regional Office, and Bill McCollum,

(LAWFUEL) – Adams and Reese is pleased to announce that several of its members have assumed new management positions. W. David Johnson of Mobile has become a Practice Group Leader for the Transactions and Corporate Advisory Services Group. Johnson represents a number of healthcare providers, including hospitals, medical service companies and physicians. His practice also

BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 28, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — The Shuman Law Firm today announced that it is investigating the proposed acquisition of IKON Office Solutions (“IKON”) (NYSE:IKN). On August 27, 2008, IKON announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Ricoh Company, Ltd. (“Ricoh”), a Japanese company. Under the terms of the agreement,

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Secundino Favela, an illegal alien living in Bapchule, Ariz. on the Gila River Indian Reservation , pleaded guilty today in federal district court in Phoenix to Conspiracy to Possess With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. Approximately four pounds of methamphetamine were found by law enforcement officials in April 2008 after a search was

HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – Even though the price tag on asbestos-related household exposure litigation has been significantly reduced in recent years, Texas courts only recently addressed the issue of business owners’ responsibility to the families of employees in household exposure cases. Diana Larson, a partner at Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, has co-authored a new Washington Legal

HOUSTON (LAWFUEL) – Although analysts forecast that more than 15 percent of all products will incorporate some form of nanotechnology by 2014, there is very little federal regulation or oversight on this burgeoning sector. The challenge, as Gardere Wynne Sewell Senior Attorney Nancy J. Brown discusses in a new Washington Legal Foundation legal background paper,

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Brian Guzman-Ochoa, aka Martin Brian Guzman-Ochoa, 32, of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Phoenix for charges related to a vehicle rollover crash on August 7, 2008, in which nine people died. Guzman-Ochoa was identified as the driver of the vehicle at the time of the

Washington, D.C., Aug. 27, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today voted to publish for public comment a proposed Roadmap that could lead to the use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) by U.S. issuers beginning in 2014. Currently, U.S. issuers use U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP). The Commission would make