NEW YORK, April 4, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Morrison & Foerster LLP is pleased to announce that the firm was honored with two awards at the International Financial Law Review annual Americas Awards. Morrison & Foerster was awarded for its work in the “Securitization Deal of the Year.” The award honors the firm for its […]
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Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party is to contest the results of the Zimbabwe election with its poliburo endorsing Mugabe’s fight against Morgan Tsvangirai in a presidential run-off. Although opposition officials say they believe Tsvangirai won the election, they say they will participate in a runoff if official results indicate he received less than the required 50%
LAWFUEL – On April 1, Skadden celebrated its 60th anniversary and on April 2, named 25 new partners based in 11 different offices.
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Los Angeles – LAWFUEL – This morning a federal jury in Los Angeles convicted the owner/operator of several home healthcare service providers of tax fraud charges related to the defendant’s participation in a scheme to divert income form the business she and a co-defendant controlled to their personal benefit. Maria Cecilia Sy Chico, also known
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A New York state judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought against Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld by a legal recruiter who claimed the law firm stiffed him on a partner placement commission. In a suit filed in October 2006, New York headhunter Eric Sivin of Sivin-Tobin Associates claimed he was entitled to a
CAMDEN, N.J.–LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire –Plaintiff’s counsel announced today that a personal injury lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare for a near fatal adverse reaction from its contaminated prescription drug Heparin was filed in federal court in New Jersey, where Baxter Healthcare, a division of Baxter International, manufactured and marketed Heparin. The claimant seeks damages for physical
LONDON–LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements –Sidley Austin LLP announced today that Bruce Gardner has joined the firm’s London office as a partner in the Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives group. Gardner will continue to focus on hedge funds, alternative asset management and related matters as he has for the last ten years. Gardner advises on all
HOUSTON–LAWFUEL – Legal News –Attorney Brent Coon, of Brent Coon & Associates, will depose Lord John Browne, the former CEO of British Petroleum (NYSE:BP), on Friday, April 4, beginning at approximately 10:00 AM CDT. Plaintiffs in the Texas City Explosion litigation initially sought to depose Lord Browne in the summer of 2006. In October of
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Noting that the deals market has experienced “something of a ‘death rattle,’” MergerMarket reports that the volume of global M&A work has dropped substantially at the largest global firms. Data released Thursday shows that U.K. and U.S. firms touched a third fewer M&A deals in the first quarter of 2008 than a year earlier. At
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael Fithen, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service, Miami Field Office, and Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, announce today’s sentencing by United States District Court Judge Kenneth Ryskamp of defendant Reginald Deriphonse. Deriphonse was sentenced
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