If Daniel Hurstel’s schedule on Thursday, March 27, was anything to go by, the Paris legal market is in decent health. The head of Willkie Farr & Gallagher’s office there, Hurstel was frantically attempting to juggle two deals while explaining parts of the U.S. firm’s strategy in London to a visitor. The Paris mood is […]
Local Attorney Named to Largest Southern California Defense Organization LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements–Randall J. Dean, a partner at Los Angeles-based law firm Chapman, Glucksman, Dean, Roeb & Barger, is announced as the incoming president of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC), the nation’s largest state civil defense organization. Dean’s one-year term officially
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HOUSTON – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – Ricardo Garcia-Moreno, an experienced corporate practitioner, has joined the Houston office of Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. “Ricardo possesses substantial legal skills and a breadth of corporate practice experience,” said Ken Broughton, the Houston administrative partner. “Haynes and
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NEW YORK March 25, 2008 – Lawfuel – Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. as part of an investment group which also includes Goldman Sachs in a comprehensive recapitalization of MoneyGram International, Inc. (NYSE: MGI), it was announced today. The transaction, comprised of several different types of financing, including preferred
HARTFORD, Conn., March 28, 2008 LAWFUEL — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas on behalf of all persons
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LawFuel – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SAMUEL A. FISHMAN, a former partner at a major United States law firm (the “Firm”), pleaded guilty earlier today before United States District Judge VICTOR MARRERO to a mail fraud charge arising out of
A federal judge has handed the White House a legal victory in battle with the Democratic National Committee over e-mails related to U.S. attorney firings. District Judge Ellen Huvelle of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Thursday that the DNC does not have a right under the Freedom of Information
Poison drummer Rikki Rockett has been arrested on a Mississippi rape warrant following his return from a New Zealand band reunion concert. Rockett, a former hairdresser who formed part of the famous “hair band” was arrested by the LAPD as he went through customs. Rockett and singer Bret Michaels founded Poison together. He was in
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More Expansion in Latin America Being Considered NEW YORK, March 26, 2008 LAWFUEL – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that it has opened an office in Mexico City as part of the expansion of its Latin American practice. Attorneys in the office will advise clients in Latin America and
Xerox Corp., the world’s largest maker of high-speed color printers, said it received preliminary court approval to settle an eight-year-old investor lawsuit for $670 million. Xerox will take a $491 million first-quarter charge to cover the settlement and other cases, the Norwalk, Connecticut-based company said today in a statement. Xerox will pay the settlement into
