BALTIMORE August 5, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Health systems and hospitals should take comfort in a recent court decision in a damages action brought by a surgeon against the two Western Maryland Health System hospitals located in Cumberland, Maryland. In Isaac Isaiah M.D. v. WMHS Braddock Hospital Corporation et al, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz […]
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August 5, 2008 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by Los Angeles personal injury lawyers, a Sig Alert was enacted following a motorcycle accident on the 91 Freeway. It is reported that the accident occurred in the Anaheim area in the vicinity of Lemon Street and East Street and the SigAlert was called at approximately
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Team of Attorneys Joins From Wierzbowski Eversheds NEW YORK — August 5, 2008 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Center – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today it has hired a team of four attorneys to strengthen its practices in infrastructure, public-private partnerships (PPP), M&A and real estate in Poland.
Los Angeles, California – LAWFUEL – Law Announcements – An Arcadia man faces up to 63 years in federal prison and fines totaling $1 million after pleading guilty to tax and mail fraud charges related to a scheme in which he sold sub-standard computer systems as “new” to the public in 2003 and 2004. As
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NEW YORK, August 5, 2008 – LawFuel – Legal Announcements – Kaye Scholer LLP announced that Madeleine M. L. Tan has joined the firm’s Corporate & Finance Department as a Partner in its New York office, effective August 1, 2008. Ms. Tan has extensive experience advising equity investors, lenders, project developers, alternative investment funds, special
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Most midlevel associates surveyed by the American Lawyer plan to be on the job for the short-term, but few plan to stay for the long-term. The finding is one of the ironies of the survey, the Am Law Daily reports. Asked to rate the likelihood of being at their firm in two years on a
A federal judge in Manhattan has allowed sex discrimination claims to proceed against an intellectual property law firm that fired an associate two days after she complained in an e-mail to partners that the firm’s women lawyers were being “relegated to non-partnership track support roles.” In a 53-page opinion issued last week, Southern District of
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has paid $9.5 million to Brocade Communications Systems to release itself — as well its chairman and former Brocade board member, Larry Sonsini — from civil claims stemming from the backdating disaster at the firm’s longtime client. News of Wilson’s payment was tucked into a footnote in court filings Friday
LawFuel – Legal Newswire – The establishment of Afghanistan’s first ever bar association, the Independent Afghan Bar Association (IABA), came to fruition on Wednesday, 30 July 2008 at 1800hrs (Kabul time) at a General Assembly in Kabul attended by more than 400 leaders and lawyers representing all parts of Afghanistan. This was achieved after five
US President George W Bush has signed into law legislation paving the way for Libya to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate US victims of bombing attacks that Washington blames on Tripoli. The Libyan Claims Resolution Act clears the way to resolve all outstanding US claims related to what Washington regards as Libyan
