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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – An official Iraqi investigation into a deadly shooting involving Blackwater USA security guards concluded 17 Iraqis were killed and found the gunfire was unwarranted, the government said Sunday. It also said the shootings amounted to a deliberate crime and recommended those involved face trial. The Blackwater guards are accused

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – They are the supremes when it comes to TV judges, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. While Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown may not have lifetime reigns like their real-life colleagues on the U.S. Supreme Court, they make a lot more money, and millions know their names and watch them

Transition to Take Effect in 2009 LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Blank Rome is pleased to name new officers to its leadership team. Effective January 1, 2009, Alan J. Hoffman and Thomas M. (Mike) Dyer will become co-chairmen of Blank Rome LLP. David F. Girard-diCarlo will resign his term as chairman, concurrently. In

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Mr Tony D’Aloisio, Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), today welcomed the Treasurer’s announcement of the proposed appointment of Ms Belinda Gibson as an ASIC Commissioner from 5 November 2007. ‘Ms Gibson is a very experienced and highly-regarded lawyer in mergers and acquisitions and in corporate

LAWFUEL – The UK Legal Newswire – A criminal network that included a drug dealer and his partner who hid a suitcase of heroin under a child’s cot, have been sentenced to a total of 32 years. Spencer Wellington and Dominic Degannes, both 27yrs, were sentenced today at Blackfriars CC, following an investigation by the

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Sidley Austin, Chicago’s second-largest law firm, agreed to pay $27.5 million to 32 lawyers allegedly fired or demoted to make way for younger lawyers, the Chigago Sun-Times reports. The firm issued a statement saying it admits no wrongdoing with this consent decree, which it agreed to merely to

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – A name partner and an attorney at one of the West Coast’s largest immigration law firms have pleaded guilty to charges related to the filing of fraudulent employment visa applications on behalf of foreign nationals, including some of the law firm’s own workers. Steven James Rodriguez, 40, a

WASHINGTON- LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire –The Law Firm of Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C. (http://www.cmht.com) announced today that it filed a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of Semtech Corporation (the “Semtech” or the

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.– LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire –Merck & Co., Inc. said today that the jury in the product liability case of Kozic v. Merck found in favor of Merck, rejecting a claim that the Company was liable for plaintiff Refik Kozic’s heart attack. Mr. Kozic alleged that he used VIOXX® for approximately nine weeks

Only Boston-based Firm Ranked on List; Yale Honor Follows Recent Recognition by Working Mother Magazine as Best Law Firm for Women BOSTON– LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire –Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. has been named to Yale Law Women’s second annual list of the top ten family-friendly law firms, an honor