BriefcaseNotes.Wordpress.com – Briefcase Blog – John Bowie – Judging the Judges The verdict is in, but can it be sustained? The “Independent’s” bar have cast judgment upon the country’s judges, which is interesting in the same way cocktail tittle tattle can be intriguing despite its often scandalous, unproven content. But, irony of ironies, the “top […]

LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire Service – New York, May 26, 2009 – Morrison & Foerster LLP announced today that Sheila Bair, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), will receive the first annual Regulatory Innovation Award. Morrison & Foerster established this award through the Burton Foundation to honor an academic or non-elected public official

May 26, 2009 – NEW YORK – LAWFUEL.com – Legal Newswire – Loeb & Loeb Real Estate Department Chair Raymond Sanseverino recently received the 2009 Alumni Citation from his alma mater Franklin & Marshall College of Lancaster, PA. The Franklin & Marshall Alumni Citation is presented annually to an alumna or alumnus who is distinguished

LawFuel.com – Legal Announcements – NEW YORK, May 26, 2009 — Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP announced today that Christine Chung will join the firm’s New York office as a partner. From 1991 to 2003, Ms. Chung served at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and subsequently as

LAWFUEL.COM – EG&G Technical Services, Inc., a national defense contractor based in Germantown, Maryland, has paid the United States $1,765,164.46 to settle allegations that it defrauded the United States Air Force. EG&G, which is a subsidiary of URS Corporation, an international engineering design service firm headquartered in San Francisco, was accused in a “whistleblower” lawsuit

May 26, 2009 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by cruise ship accident attorneys, an 18 year old has fallen overboard from the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy. The man has been identified as Bruce O’Krepki and is on of the 69 new graduates of the St. Thomas Aquinas high school in Hammond Louisiana. O’Krepki, his

LawFuel.com – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that BERNARD KERIK, a former New York City Police Commissioner and Commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the District of Columbia on charges of

ACT to Submit Recommendations at June Meeting WASHINGTON — LawFuel.com – The Internal Revenue Service’s Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) will hold a public meeting on June 10, when the panel will submit its latest round of recommendations to senior IRS executives. Ten newly named members of the panel (listed below)

May 26, 2009 (Mountain View, CA) – LawFuel.com – Fenwick & West LLP represented Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) in its recently announced acquisition by NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP), creator of innovative storage and data management solutions. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.5 billion, net of Data Domain’s cash. Data Domain, based in Santa

DALLAS – LawFuel.com – Michael D. Richardson, a partner in Dallas’ Rose•Walker, L.L.P., is featured in the May 22 edition of the Dallas Business Journal as one of North Texas’ top business defense attorneys. Mr. Richardson is one of only 15 attorneys named to the Dallas Business Journal’s prestigious 2009 listing of “The Defenders.” He