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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Australian Law Reform Commission has recommended a major overhaul of Australia’s federal privacy laws, putting forward more than 300 sweeping changes to the current regime under the Privacy Act 1988. Many of the proposals focus on greater protection for individual privacy, reflecting the advances in technology since the […]

LAWFUEL – See LawFuel’s ‘Hot Gossip’ – Fresh from his divorce from Heather Mills and its ongoing legal ramifications, Paul McCartney is now linked to actress Rosanna Arquette, despite the standard denials. Our source is the impeccable London News of the World. NOTW report that McCartney collected Rosanna from a friend’s house in West London

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 24, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — Kahn Gauthier Swick, LLC (“KGS”), the law firm that has filed a securities fraud class action lawsuit against WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (“WellCare” or the “Company”) (NYSE:WCG) on behalf of shareholders who purchased the common stock of the Company between May 8, 2006 and

LAWFUEL – The Legal newswire – Chessmaster Garry Kasparov has been beaten and imprisoned by Russian police after helping lead a protest in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. He was charged with organizing an unsanctioned protest and resisting arrest. The arrest comes a week before Russia’s parliamentary election and has seen Kasparov jailed

LAWFUEL – A federal judge has overturned a decision that doubled damages in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Broadcom Corp against Qualcomm Inc. A judge awarded Broadcom nearly $40 million in August, following a finding that the patent infringements were wilful. Broadcom has reportedly chosen to accept $19.6 million in patent infringement damages and

LawJobsPipeline.com – The Lawjobspipeline.blog has two new postings relating to the tight New Zealand legal market and the growing trend of inhouse lawyers to both grow their own legal departments and do deals on legal fees See: LawJobsPipeline.com

LAWFUEL – Law Firm Announcements – Lovells have received the WORLDleaders International Trademark Excellence award for our work representing the Swedish retailing giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) in a dispute against a Russian holder of the H&M trademark in Russia. The award was announced at a ceremony in London on 15 November. The WORLDleaders awards,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Lovells has further expanded its international IPMT practice and entered the Japanese domestic market with the recruitment of bengoshi partner Eiichiro Kubota and his seven-strong team to the firm’s Tokyo office. Kubota is currently the head and founding partner of Kubota Law & Patent office. Kubota is Lovells’ 23rd

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Presidential candidate Ron Paul, 72, is expecting to raise more than his $12 million goal for the fourth quarter, with upbeat predictions from the candidate himself. Paul is competing in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada, and said he expects to have money to campaign through Super Tuesday,