LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Jobs, Legal News – Former Murchison dairy king Avon Gillespie has been sentenced to a further 2½ years in jail for fraud totalling $2.5 million. Gillespie is serving 4½ for drugs, firearms and assault charges. His appearance yesterday in the Nelson District Court before Judge Tony Zohrab involved six counts of
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NEW YORK–LAWFUEL- The Law Firm Newswire – Labaton Sucharow LLP announced that it has reached a $117.5 million settlement in principle on behalf of its client the Mercury Pension Fund Group in the securities class action titled In re: Mercury Interactive Corp. Securities Litigation. This settlement is the largest in any stock options backdating case
LAWFUEL – The Litigation Newswire – Nortel Networks Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million and consent to quarterly oversight to settle a fraud-related investigation by U.S. regulators, the company said Monday. The settlement stems from a 2004 accounting scandal in which former Nortel executives concealed the company’s deteriorating financial condition and inflated reported results.
SEATTLE– LAWFUEL – The US Litigation Newswire –An E. coli lawsuit was filed today in Minnesota against Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, the meat company whose frozen ground beef products were identified as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in September and October. The lawsuit was filed in Dakota County District Court on behalf
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Paul Hastings Represents Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc. in Merger with Management Consulting Group Atlanta, GA (October 15, 2007) – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that the firm represented Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc. (KSA), a leading global management consulting firm, in its
LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – The Times reports – The figures are sobering. According to Thomson Financial’s third-quarter survey of global mergers and acquisitions activity, released last week, the summer’s turmoil in the financial markets brought a record year (value of total deals announced worldwide: $3.6 trillion) clattering to a halt. In Europe, the
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Monday 15 October 2007 LAWFUEL – NZ & Australian Legal News & Jobs – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has disqualified another six directors from managing corporations, bringing the total to 19 for the first three months of the 07/08 financial year. These most recent disqualifications, which took effect in September 2007, reflect
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Beresfords, a tiny firm of solicitors in Doncaster, has received £123m from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims on behalf of coal miners for work-related diseases, new government figures show. The head of the firm, Jim Beresford, had a personal salary of £16.7m in 2006 and two partners – one of whom was his daughter
LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Announcements, Law Jobs – Early this morning specialist armed Police carried out search warrants at locations throughout New Zealand in relation to firearms offences. Commissioner Howard Broad said that police were acting on information that over 2006/2007 a number of people had been conducting and participating in training camps in the
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LAWFUEL – The NZ Law Jobs & Newswire – The High Court has hinted that the removal of barristerial immunity should lead to a review of the prohibition on barristers suing for their fees. The Supreme Court in the 2006 case of Lai v Chamberlains upheld the removal of barristerial immunity by the Court of
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