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HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 30, 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 Southern District of Ohio on […]

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – The US Lawyer Newswire – The American Lawyer has announced the recipients of its fourth annual Lifetime Achievement Awards. This year’s award honorees are: James Baker III, Baker Botts, Houston; Thomas Gottschalk, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C.; Shirley Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster, Los Angeles; Nathaniel Jones, Blank Rome, Cincinnati; Ira Millstein, Weil,

Boston Scientific Corp. said it will pay almost $17 million to settle investigations by 35 states and the District of Columbia into the marketing of defective cardiac defibrillators by its Guidant Corp. unit. The settlement resolves state probes into whether Guidant officials hid defects in the implantable devices, which are designed to help users with

IRVINE, Calif., August 30, 2007 – Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP today announced the opening of its first office in Orange County. The firm’s growing real estate practice and increased clientele in the Orange County area prompted Luce Forward to open its sixth office location. The new office is located in Irvine, Calif. Luce

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – It was intended to be Madeleine McCann’s first day at school. But after 119 days with no news of her whereabouts and growing fears that she is dead, life is starting to carry on without her. Head teacher Gail Neill will say a prayer later today during a special

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A leading Brisbane barrister who has helped improve Zimbabwe’s legal system has been appointed to the Queensland Supreme Court. Former Australian Bar Association president Glenn Martin SC was admitted as a barrister in 1979 and appointed senior counsel in 1998. The 51-year-old was one of the inaugural chairs of

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Tasmanian Premier Paul Lennon is to seek urgent clarification about just what Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has done in delaying his approval of the Gunns pulp mill. Mr Lennon said the Tasmanian parliament was likely to vote overwhelmingly in favour of the $2 billion pulp mill plan when it

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – California plaintiff’s lawyer William S. Lerach yesterday told his partners that he would resign this week to resolve a long-running criminal investigation into his tactics and business practices. With Lerach’s departure, his name will be stripped from Lerach Coughlin, the 180-lawyer San Diego firm he founded three years

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The gunman responsible for the April massacre at Virginia Tech was a sickly child – shy, frail and leery of physical contact by the time he was 3, the Washington Post reports. His teachers said he began showing suicidal and homicidal tendencies by the eighth grade. A new report

Wellington, NZ – 30 August 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Wellington company director is to be dishcharged without conviction on tax charges, following the decision of District Court Judge John Walker yesterday, who said the consequences of a conviction on the charges would be out of all proportion to the gravity of