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WASHINGTON–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire James S. Brady Briefing Room 11:21 A.M. EDT SECRETARY LEAVITT: Good morning. The President has asked that I respond to any questions that you have with respect to S-CHIP. Yes, ma’am. Q While Congress was out the administration directed states to meet federal requirements before they could expand the scope

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Senator Hillary Clinton is caught in a campaign finance fraud debacle as Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu was charged on Thursday with fraud and campaign finance violations. Reuters report that the case that has prompted presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in contributions. U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia unsealed

LAWFUEL – Altered instructions from the judge in the Phil Spector murder trial threw a life preserver to prosecutors by agreeing to revoke an instruction that deadlocked jurors had said they found confusing, legal experts said. The LA Times reports that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler’s decision came during a remarkable

Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 4:02 pm Press Release: NZ Supreme Court BAKER V R SC 51/2007 [19 September 2007] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW ZEALAND SC 51/2007 [2007] NZSC 76 GEORGE CHARLIE BAKER v THE QUEEN Court: Blanchard, Tipping and McGrath JJ Counsel: C Wilkinson-Smith for Applicant M D Downs for Crown Judgment: 19

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Clifford Chance advises National Australia Bank Ltd on acquisition of a stake in a Chinese trust company Shanghai: Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised a major foreign enterprise seeking to acquire a strategic stake in a leading Chinese trust company. The firm has acted for National Australia Bank

LAWJOBSPIPELINE.com – Legal jobs blog – Good old Sullivan & Cromwell – the big money law firm has sent out a two page memo under the hand of chairman H. Rodgen Cohen outlining something they call the ‘Senior Associate Supplemental Compensation Plan’. (The memo can be read at AbovetheLaw here). What that means in money-speak

Queens Counsel Peter Williams has criticised the police delay in locating the body of An An Liu, putting the delay down to incompetence, saying the car was an obvious place to search. Williams says on the facts available it took 45 hours from the time police first went into the street before they opened the

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned Mr Martin Colebrook, of Canterbury, New South Wales, from providing financial services for two years. Mr Colebrook was the manager of the Government and Infrastructure Division of Heath Lambert Group in New South Wales between 2001 and 2004. During this

HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 19, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on

US Law Firm Newswire NEW YORK, September 19, 2007 – Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today that John W. Weiss has joined the New York office as a shareholder in the Business Reorganization and Bankruptcy Practice. He will focus on representing debtors, official and unofficial committees, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, lessors and lessees of both real