COLCHESTER, Conn., Aug. 16, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — On August 14, 2007, Scott+Scott, LLP, announced that it had filed a class action against Countrywide Financial Corp. (“Countrywide Financial” or the “Company”) (NYSE:CFC) and certain officers and directors in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. The action is on […]

LAWFUEL – See Hot Gossip – No one but lawyers like legal fees, but new standards are being set over in the David Hasselhoff divorce mess. First up, the Hoff’s lawyers say their client is on the hook for legal fees he has to poay for his wife – all $565,000 of them – and

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – “The Law Commission has been asked by the Government to look at practical difficulties arising with application for the writ of habeas corpus,” Sir Geoffrey Palmer said today. “We have produced a study paper on these technical legal issues and we are calling for submissions on them by 17

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Auckland barristers Ailsa Duffy QC and Peter Woodhouse QC have been appointed judges of the High Court and will both sit in Auckland. Justice Duffy graduated LLM (Hons) from Auckland University and practised predominantly as a barrister from 1980-1988 when she joined the Crown Law Office. Justice Duffy returned to

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Record companies are unhappy with the acquittal of the former boss of a music download site who was acquitted by a Russian court on charges of breaching copyright. The Russian court found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright on Wednesday in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The National Law Enforcement Museum isn’t scheduled to open for another four years. But it doesn’t need a bricks-and-mortar building to provide access to interviews of FBI agents about big cases on which they’ve worked. Surprisingly candid interview transcripts will be posted by the end of 2008 on the

LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – Three summers ago, my wife and I were driving my two older kids to the airport. The academic year was about to resume. The younger child, my son, was returning to college; the older, my daughter, to law school. “Say,” I heard my son ask his sister in the backseat,

SEATTLE, Aug. 16, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — Today Keller Rohrback L.L.P. (www.seattleclassaction.com) filed a nationwide class action lawsuit in Federal District Court in the Central District of California against Mattel, Inc. (“Mattel” or the “Company”) (NYSE:MAT), the parent company of Fisher-Price, on behalf of purchasers of toys recalled because they were manufactured

Friday, 17 August 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Commerce Commission has reached a settlement with Espresso Engineers Limited and Valente Coffee Machinery Limited after they breached the Commerce Act by preventing a reseller from advertising their coffee machines for sale below a specified minimum price. Under the settlement, both Espresso Engineers

NEW YORK, August 16, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Loeb & Loeb LLP announced today that four attorneys have joined the firm’s Advertising and Promotions Practice Group in the New York office. Rose Meade Hart and Pam Benjamin join as Senior Counsel and Drew Weinstein and John Um join as associates.