WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 28, 2006) LAWFUEL – Law News Network — McDermott Will & Emery is pleased to announce the arrival of Michael P. Socarras. Mr. Socarras joins the Firm’s Trial Department and will be based in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice is focused on U.S. and international litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution. “Mike […]

FORT WORTH, Texas- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Aug. 29, 2006–Cano Petroleum, Inc. (Amex:CFW) (“Cano”) today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements with institutional investors, in a private equity transaction, to sell approximately 49,116 shares of convertible preferred stock at a price of $1,000.00 per share and approximately 6,584,247 shares of common

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Aug. 29 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network — R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is pleased that a Federal District Court in Massachusetts has dismissed a lawsuit brought against the company and other tobacco manufacturers by United Seniors Association, Inc. (United Seniors). This is the fourth federal court to dismiss claims against the tobacco industry

AMSTERDAM – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Allen & Overy has advised TNT on the divestiture sale of its TNT Logistics division to affiliates of Apollo Management. The deal is valued at approximately EUR 1.5 billion. TNT Logistics is one of the largest logistics companies in the world and employs approximately 36,000 employees, making

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – An Orange County man who was one of the ringleaders of a large-scale durable medical equipment (“DME”) scheme that defrauded Medicare out of millions of dollars was sentenced yesterday to ten years in prison. Phu Luong, 51, of Huntington Beach, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cormac J.

KENILWORTH, N.J., Aug. 29 LAWFUEL – Law News Network — Schering-Plough Corporation (NYSE: SGP) has reached an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts and the U.S. Department of Justice to settle the previously disclosed investigation involving the company’s sales, marketing and clinical trial practices and programs. The agreement reached today

August 28, 2006 – (New York, NY)- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 650 lawyers in the United States and Europe, is pleased to announce that Paul Salvatore and Lawrence R. Sandak, partners in the firm’s Labor and Employment Law Department, were inducted into the

Monday August 28, 8:00 am ET ALVISO, Calif., Aug. 28 LAWFUEL – Legal News Network — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO – News), the creator of and the leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today offered the following statement on the court stay of EchoStar Technology Corporation’s lawsuit against TiVo and Humax USA.

Merger Will Create Preeminent National Firm with Powerful New York Presence Palo Alto, Calif. and New York, New York — August, 2006 — LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Cooley Godward LLP, a national leader in representing technology and life sciences companies and litigating high-stakes commercial and intellectual property disputes, announced today that it will

Milbank, Tweed Advises American SI Group in Financing MUNICH, August 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – American SI Group has sold their affiliate Chemtec Leuna Gesell-schaft für Chemie und Technologie mbH to Minafin S.A., France. The international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP acted as the advisor to American SI Group,