LAWFUEL – The NZ Legal Newswire – The Commerce Commission has received an application from DFS Group Limited (DFS) seeking clearance to acquire 100 % of the shares in The Nuance Group (Nuance). DFS is a Hong Kong based company that operates on-site and off-site airport duty free stores in Auckland and Christchurch. DFS is […]
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LAWFUEL – US Legal News – Skadden Arps recently won a major victory for Metropolitan Life Insurance in a putative nationwide class action by securing a dismissal of the plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims. The lawsuit, Beavers v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, claimed that allocation of income from Met Life’s real estate investments from the
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NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Abraham, Fruchter & Twersky, LLP commenced a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Case No. 07-10524) on behalf of a class (the “Class”) of all persons who purchased or acquired securities of Pzena Asset Management, Inc. (“Pzena” or
Even lawyers need a hug. When workdays stretch into worknights and the pressure to meet the quota for billable hours grows, lawyers and staff members at the firm of Perkins Coie can often expect a little bonus. In Perkins Coie’s Chicago office, members of the firm’s “happiness committee” recently left candied apples on everyone’s desks.
LAWFUEL – Legal newswire 1. FBI Releases 2006 Hate Crime Statistics The FBI’s 2006 Hate Crime Statistics, released on November 19, 2007, includes data from hate crime reports submitted by law enforcement agencies from across the country. Full Story 2. FBI Laboratory to Increase Outreach in Bullet Lead Cases The FBI Laboratory has undertaken an
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LAWFUEL – The Australia Legal Jobs & Newswire – Mr Dennis Hood, member of the Legislative Council, has criticised Judge Marie Shaw of the District Court for suspending the prison sentence of Christopher Niehus following his conviction for admitted sex offences. The Law Society expresses great concern that a member of parliament would suggest that
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LAWFUEL – The NZ Legal Jobs & Newswire – Police have laid the informations to proceed with a prosecution of Taito Phillip Field. He is charged with 15 counts of bribery and 25 counts of attempting to pervert justice. He is due to appear in the Manukau District Court at 10am on Monday 26 November
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Auckland – LAWFUEL – The NZ Law Newswire -Simpson Grierson Partners Willy Akel and Tracey Walker represented Television New Zealand Ltd in the landmark Supreme Court decision to allow the broadcast of a confession by Noel Clements Rogers. The footage became part of a unique case in New Zealand media law when it was ruled
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A class action law firm is claiming almost $700 million in legal fees for its work helping investors to recoup losses from the collapse of Enron. If approved, it would be the largest legal pay day in history. Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins said that it had helped claimants to recover almost $7.3 billion,
LAWFUEL – UK Legal News – Two men have been sentenced today (22/11/07) at Wood Green Crown Court, who are the final defendants involved in the Metropolitan Police’s largest crackdown on counterfeit passport factories to date. Rodrigo Goncalves [10/07/77 – 30 ys] pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of apparatus used to manufacture false
