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BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 29, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that it is investigating claims against Sciele Pharma, Inc. (“Sciele Pharma” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:SCRX) (formerly, “First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corporation”) concerning whether the Company’s 401(k) Plan (the “Plan”) imprudently invested in Sciele Pharma stock and whether Plan

BENSALEM, Pa., Aug. 29, 2007 LAWFUEL – Law Newswire — Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that it is investigating claims against Countrywide Financial Corp. (“Countrywide” or the “Company”) (NYSE:CFC) concerning whether the Countrywide Financial Corp. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan (the “Plan”) imprudently invested in Countrywide stock and whether Plan administrators breached their

ATLANTA (August 29) — Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that Partner Lorraine M. Brennan will be a featured speaker at the Second Annual International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Conference, which is being held September 24, at the Hilton in New York City. The conference will bring together current members of the ICC International Court of Arbitration,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The NSW Law Society president who tried to stop a pre-election advertising campaign because of concern that it could antagonise the state Government was yesterday appointed a NSW magistrate, The Australian reports. Geoff Dunlevy, 34, tried last year to prevent the society spending $300,000 on a campaign against the

APWG releases new online tools to deter, detect and defend against identity theft LOS ALTOS, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In an effort to reduce the incidence of identity theft, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is joining the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) nationwide “AvoID Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend” campaign to educate

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Munich prosecutors said Wednesday they have met with investigators from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to discuss possible legal assistance in an ongoing probes into bribery at Siemens AG. SEC representatives, as well as investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and officials from the Department Of Justice

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The New York Times reports that Senator Larry E. Craig said Tuesday that he regretted his guilty plea in connection with an airport restroom incident, and he accused an Idaho newspaper of hounding him in recent months. “I am not gay; I never have been gay,” Mr. Craig, an

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Mr Trevor Christian Lam, of Hunters Hill in New South Wales, yesterday pleaded guilty in the Downing Centre Local Court to a charge of dishonestly using his position as an employee of Macquarie Bank Limited (Macquarie) with the intention of gaining an advantage for another person. The charge follows

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy–a BitTorrent search engine–that accused the movie studios’ trade group of intercepting the company’s private e-mails, was tossed out of court last week. But while a U.S. District judge found that the Motion Picture Association of America had not violated the federal Wiretap

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – LawFuel’s lead story – Leading class action litigator Bill Lerach leaves his firm amid a criminal probe that has surrounded him and his firm, Milberg Weiss, the powerhouse litigation operation he co-founded. See: http://www.lawfuel.com/show-article.asp?ID=83892324