Washington, D.C., Aug. 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against Michael J. Byrd, a former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., alleging that he disregarded indications that other senior corporate executives were improperly backdating stock option grants […]

LAWFUEL – Britney Spears’ matrimonial issues have become more acrimonious with a tearful meeting after the 25-year-old singer left her lawyers’ office yesterday. The Daily Telegraph reports that her ex-husband Kevin Federline, 29, has served legal papers on some of her closest friends and associates in an attempt to win sole custody of the couple’s

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Brooke Astor, who died this week at 105, left her 83-year-old son a who’s who guest list for her funeral — and a will that pits him against other mourners who have accused him of going for her money while she lived in squalor. The Park Avenue doyenne of

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — IBM Corporation and PriceWaterhouseCoopers have both agreed to pay the United States more than $5.2 million to settle allegations that the companies solicited an provided improper payments and other things of value on technology contracts with government agencies, the Justice Department announced today. IBM has agreed

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Falcons quarterback Michael Vick faces a deadline today to accept what may be the best possible deal from federal prosecutors in his dogfighting conspiracy case, but no matter what he decides, his NFL future is very much in doubt and in the hands of commissioner Roger Goodell. Vick and

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The turmoil in stock and mortgage markets may have traders, investors and home-owners worried, but for lawyers there are plenty of opportunities for new business, as Reuters report. Traders are grappling with falling stock prices, bankers are reeling from a slowdown in deals and corporate leaders are bracing for

MIAMI – August 16, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Marilyn Holifield, a litigation partner in the Miami office of Holland & Knight, has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) to serve as Secretary. Holifield has been actively involved in HAA activities for a number of years.

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – See the law jobs blog – LawJobsPipeline.com The US News top law school rankings’ top 10 – 1. Yale 2. Harvard 3. Stanford 4. New York University 5. Columbia 6. University of Chicago 7. University of Pennsylvania 8. University of California-Berkeley 8. University of Michigan 10.Duke 10. University of

LAWFUEL – The US News rankings are achieved by assigning schools to their peers, based on the basic categories developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 2006. Those in the National Universities group are the 262 American universities (164 public and 98 private) that offer a wide range of undergraduate majors

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The US News & World Report rankings go online today – but the list is producing a growing backlash, with critics questioning the methodology amid the huge influence the list has among schools. It was 1983, and lists — of books, movies, anything — were the rage. U.S. News