8 June 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Gide Loyrette Nouel advises GL Events in Hungary in connection with the privatisation of the Budapest Exhibition Centre: Gide Loyrette Nouel has just finished advising GL Events, a company based in Lyon, specialised in event organisation and logistics, in connection with the privatisation of […]

8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – LawFuel.com’s lead story from Fortune Magazine concerns the asbestos litigation industry that has turned justice on its head.

8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – SJ Berwin is pleased to announce the recruitment of leading mediator Phillip Howell-Richardson from Morgan Cole. Phillip joins the firm as a Consultant on 1 August 2005. He has over 15 years experience as a top mediator and has had extensive involvement with the development

RIVERSIDE, CA – 8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – An Inland Empire man who ran a bogus “high-yield investment program” that was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme that allowed him to collect more than $26 million from victims around the world has been sentenced to 168 months in federal prison.

8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and James K. Belz, Inspector-in-Charge, Miami Division, United States Postal Inspection Service, announced today that defendant, Gregory Swarn, a former resident of Miami Beach, Florida, together with defendants, Craig Moncrieffe and John Eckhardt,

ORLANDO, Fla. – JUNE 8, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Holland & Knight LLP announced today that the firm received the No. 1 ranking in Florida in Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers for the following four practice areas: Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Finance, Construction and Tax. Chambers USA

8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Two New Jersey residents who operated a $2.7 million “bust-out” scheme in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles have been convicted on a host of federal fraud charges and today a jury determined that two luxury homes they purchased with their ill-gotten gains should be

MIAMI, June 8, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The international law firm of Steel Hector & Davis LLP, and four of its practice groups, have been selected by Chambers and Partners USA as leading U.S. attorneys and firm. The selection, published in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Business Lawyers Directory, is based

8 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has elected Sebastián Albella as a partner in its growing Madrid office. His appointment represents a key step in the Madrid office’s ability to meet client demand in Spain, as well as international work flowing in and out of the region. Sebastián joins Linklaters

PHILADELPHIA, June 8 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — Lawrence J. Fox, a partner in the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, has been selected to receive the American Bar Association’s 2005 Pro Bono Publico Award. The national Pro Bono Publico Awards, created in 1984, recognize individual lawyers for extraordinary contributions