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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The top 100 legal firms in Britain collected more than £12bn in fees over the last year and the best-paid partners netted more than £2m each from their share of profits, it was disclosed yesterday, the Telegraph reports. Profits jumped 19pc to £4.19bn on the back of a legal

SAN DIEGO–LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch (BSKB), a leading international intellectual property law firm, will be hosting an interactive seminar on September 6 for in-house patent practitioners involved with biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device and chemical patent applications. This exclusive two-hour seminar, one morning and one evening session, will

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Four U.S. toy companies recalled more than 340,000 products made in China including spinning Curious George tops and SpongeBob SquarePants journals because of lead-content levels that can be toxic for young children. The paint on bindings of SpongeBob journals and address books can contain more lead than is safe,

There are many firsts that the modern lawyer has chalked up – the blackberry drafting, the class action fee-hauls – but now there’s a new frontier, financial of course . . the $1000-an-hour fee. The WSJ reports. The hourly rates of the country’s top lawyers are increasingly coming with something new — a comma. A

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Paris Hilton has put not only her short-term jail stay behind her, but also Aa $10-million defamation suit filed in Santa Monica against her by a woman who claimed Hilton lied to the press about a run-in the two had over a man at a London nightclub has been

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP today filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, District of New Mexico, on behalf of all persons who purchased the common stock of Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (“TMI” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TMA) between October 6, 2005 and

CLEVELAND– LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – For the third year in a row, Thompson Hine LLP has been ranked among the top 40 firms nationally in The American Lawyer’s annual job satisfaction survey of midlevel associates. Among the Am Law Second Hundred Firms, Thompson Hine ranks 16th nationally. In the market-by-market analysis, the

LAWFUEL – See Hot Files – It’s A-List profiling gone mad. Oprah Winfrey, Condi Rice, and Colin Powell are among a host of A-list celebs who were just subpoenaed in a racial profiling case in a Michigan Federal Court. TMZ report on the court’s “command” that a spectacular list of celebrities appear for depositions in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – American Home Mortgage Holdings Inc. has “started to get bombarded” with demands from its lenders that it hand over home loans it’s servicing, an attorney for the company said Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports. Meanwhile, Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation’s largest mortgage lender, sought to reassure customers that the