LawFuel.com – Latest Legal News – No one is safe it appears, as lawyers at Pinsent Masons discovered yesterday. The firm’s managing partner David Ryan used the dreaded ‘R’ word for the first time, after avoiding making any formal job cuts up to now. After weekly, sometimes even daily, announcements about lay offs over the […]

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced his office has reached an agreement with Albertsons LLC over allegations several of the company’s stores refused to honor sales prices printed in the company’s weekly flyers. The agreement calls for $200,000 for consumer restitution, fees and costs and the Attorney General will hold the entire

LawFuel.com – Jeffrey Thrope Brings Deep Health Care Provider Experience New York – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Jeffrey C. Thrope has joined the firm as a partner in the New York office, working in the Health Care Industry Team. Prior to joining Foley, Thrope practiced at Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. Often

June 11, 2009 Audit the Fed Bill Reaches Crucial Benchmark Washington, D.C. – Congressman Ron Paul’s Federal Reserve Transparency Act, HR 1207, has reached and surpassed the level of 218 cosponsors in the House of Representatives, which means it is now cosponsored by a majority of the members. The 218th cosponsor was Dennis Kucinich (OH-10),

LawFuel.com – Corporate Legal Newswire Service – (New York, New York) – Andrew Hulsh has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York as a partner in the firm’s corporate practice, the firm announced today. Kerry E. Berchem, a co-manager of Akin Gump’s corporate practice, said, “As a transactional lawyer with significant

Lawfuel.com – Legal Announcements – Russian Federation Practice Nears 20th Year Serving the Region New York, June 11, 2009 — The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Dmitry Gubarev, Olga Koniuhova and Julia Romanova have been named international partners in connection with the firm’s practice in the Russian Federation. “These

LawFuel.com – DENVER – Yong Gates, age 71, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 3 years probation, with the first 6 months on home detention, for structuring prostitution proceeds, Acting U.S. Attorney David Gaouette, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge

On 26 May 2009, Ofcom announced in a statement on the Regulation of Transactional TV Gambling Channels that all transactional TV gambling services or transactional gambling “windows” on TV that invite viewers to pay money to take part in gaming (such as roulette or bingo) or to place bets (for example, on virtual horse or

LawFuel.com – International Law News – International law firm Eversheds has been appointed by Smiths Group as one of its preferred law firms for EMEA in the fields of Commercial, Litigation, Employment, Real Estate and Company Secretarial Advice. Smiths Group is a global technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange. A world leader in

LOS ANGELES, June 01, 2009—Online shoppers worldwide can now take advantage of the deep discounts that American consumers have been enjoying for almost a year, compliments of Twift. The online merchant offers extreme wholesale values of up to 80 percent off regular prices by shipping direct to customer and grouping orders to cut out shipping