Team Adds Experience in Middle East, Africa Transactions New York, December 11, 2007 — LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Jon Nash, Sohail Barkatali and Agnieszka Klich are joining the Firm’s London office as partners and members of the project finance practice. The […]
Moves to reduce drastically the fees that barristers earn in long, complex cases will put at risk 14 terrorism trials due to start next year, the new head of the Bar will say today. Tim Dutton, QC, said that the reforms — intended to replace the present rates, which have led to some barristers earning
LAWFUEL – NZ Legal Jobs & Newswire – The Commerce Commission says real estate agents need to heed the warning contained in a recent court case relating to pricing practices to avoid breaching the Fair Trading Act. Wellington real estate agent Tim Whitehead was sentenced in the Hastings District Court yesterday on three charges of
New Zealand Legal Jobs Survey – LawFuel.co.nz – A survey of law firm solicitors in New Zealand, conducted by www.LawFuel.co.nz, will show the level of contentment staff lawyers have with their jobs, the legal jobs website announced today. The survey, focused on larger law firms, asks staff lawyers to rate a number of factors relating
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Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2007 – US Business & Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today asked for public comment on possible revisions to disclosure requirements for oil and gas reserves given the extent and nature of changes that have occurred in the oil and gas industry in the nearly three decades since
Los Angeles personal injury attorneys report that Ray Liotta pleaded no contest to alcohol and/or drug-related reckless driving. The facts show that he had been involved in a hit and run with two parked cars. Liotta, a member of the Goodfellas cast, is now sentenced to three years’ probation, must attend AA meetings and drug
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CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S, announced that the United States Supreme Court has denied the Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the case of Miller v. Brand and Capital Machine, in effect concluding the case in favor
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LAWFUEL – UK Legal News – The Lawyer reports that Herbert Smith has ploughed ahead with third-party litigation funding, putting on hold its working group on the matter, as it assesses the flood of new entrants to the market. The country’s leading litigation firm is the first firm to directly instruct a broker to find
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TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that CVS Pharmacy has agreed to change its business practices in Florida, protecting consumers from potentially misleading advertisements. The agreement calls for the Rhode Island-based company to modify its advertising practices and other aspects of the Extra Care Rewards program so
LAWFUEL – The US Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HARRY WILLNER, a former Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) Revenue Agent, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to carrying out a scheme to obstruct the IRS by fraudulently attempting to sell to
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