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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Hilton Hotels Corporation (NYSE:HLT) today announced that a special meeting of stockholders has been set for Tuesday, September 18, 2007, at 9:00 a.m. local time. The special meeting will be held at the Beverly Hilton, 9876 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California 90210. At the special meeting, Hilton’s

LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – As part of his ongoing “battle” against landlords who continue to operate multi-family residential facilities that fail to provide their residents with a clean, healthy and safe living environment, Attorney Eric E. Castelblanco today filed two “slum housing” lawsuits in Los Angeles Superior Court against Frank McHugh on

Partners of Growing Eden Prairie Law Firm Again Recognized Among Top 5% in State EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Eden Prairie law firm of Hellmuth & Johnson, PLLC announced today that firm partners Chad A. Johnson, David G. Hellmuth and Blake R. Nelson have again been named Minnesota Super Lawyers® by

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 6, 2007 – O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Martin P. Dunn, Deputy Director, and former Acting Director, of the Division of Corporation Finance at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will join the Firm in September as a partner and will be resident in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr.

LAWFUEL – Contact: Susan Bass, Holland & Knight LLP susan.bass@hklaw.com or (813) 769-4326 Holland & Knight Partner Greg Baldwin to Speak at Asia-Pacific Financial Crime Conference & Exhibition MIAMI – July 30, 2007 – Greg Baldwin, a partner in the Miami office of Holland & Knight and a member of the firm’s national Anti-Money Laundering

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has entered into a definitive agreement to be purchased by News Corporation for approximately $5.6 billion. Skadden Arps is representing News Corporation. After weeks of negotiations, members of the Bancroft family, who represent 37 percent of the voting shares

LAWFUEL – Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died yesterday at his home in Richmond. He was 100. In 1954, Mr. Hill was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson Jr. became the poster boy for frivolous lawsuits with his unsuccessful $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a lost pair of pants. But questions about his temperament and demeanor as an administrative law judge had surfaced long before a media firestorm engulfed

LawJobsPipeline – The Legal Career Blog – If you believe The Secret then focusing on what you don’t want can actually lead you to it by default – a kind of reverse-psychology effect. And so we don’t like harping on about stress issues, but to be aware is to be forewarned and, we hope, can

Clifford Chance today announced audited financial results for the financial year ended 30 April 2007. Revenues increased by 16%* to £1,194 million (2005/06: £1,029 million), and average profit per partner increased by 26% to £1,023,000 (2005/06: £814,000). When the preliminary figures were announced on 29 May 2007, managing partner David Childs commented: “We have achieved