LAWFUEL – Bangkok: A rural school in Thailand’s Lopburi province has a renovated library and new equipment today, thanks to the efforts of Clifford Chance’s Bangkok office. Baan Nhong Plong School at Lopburi Province appealed on television for assistance last year, a plea spotted by Clifford Chance office manager Chiraprabha Tantikul. Since then, the firm

LAWFUEL – An article titled “Buchanan Ingersoll Revenue Up 4 Percent, Profits Per Equity Partner 9 Percent” was published in the February 21, 2008, edition of The Legal Intelligencer. The article notes that, after two years of large-scale mergers, Buchanan focused on integration, cost savings and creating the right practice mix in 2007. The firm’s

LawFuel – English football hero Paul Gascoigne has been arrested in the UK and ‘sectioned’ under the British Mental Health Act, the Police report. Police were reportedly called to a hotel in Gascoigne’s home town, Gateshead, where the former footballer, who has a history of emotional instability, was detained. There were no injuries reported. Gascoigne

MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the filing of a thirty-five count superseding Indictment charging twenty-two members of the Dekalb Avenue Crew — a violent street gang that operated in the vicinity of 213th Street and DeKalb Avenue in the Bronx — with murder, racketeering,

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Julie Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Christina Pharo, United States Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service, Amos Rojas Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Robert Parker, Director, Miami-Dade Police

Legal Aid may be for the little guy lawyers, but it was a Big Law firm that has taken the largest slice of legal aid monies over the past 18 months, figures obtained by legal news and law job site www.LawFuel.co.nz reveal. Kensington Swan has been paid over $3.6 million in the past 18 months,

Levinson, Stepanov Bring Extensive Experience to Firm’s Moscow Office MOSCOW, February, 20, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Maxim Levinson and Sergei Stepanov, who have extensive experience in international finance, M&A and corporate legal issues, have joined Baker Botts L.L.P. as a partner and special counsel, respectively, in the firm’s Moscow office. The

ATLANTA (February 20) – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that attorneys Jeffrey Skinner and Sarah Lowe will be faculty members at the 2008 Hedge Fund Operational Risk Management Summit, which is being held February 25-26, in New York City. The 2008 Summit focuses on strategies for identifying and mitigating the most

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Five individuals who defrauded hedge fund investors of more than $200 million dollars have been indicted on charges of conspiracy and wire fraud, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced today. Defendants named in