CHICAGO – 16 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Ian S. Kopelman, chair of the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice group of DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US, will become the new legal counsel of the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America, the PSCA has announced. “We are very pleased that […]

17 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced that the former Information Technology Manager of Creative Explosions, Inc., a Silicon Valley software firm, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges that he gained unauthorized access to the

16 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Ten people involved in a scheme that led to the theft of approximately 6,700 tax-refund checks worth about $18 million were arrested this morning on federal conspiracy charges. The 10 arrested this morning are among 20 defendants who were indicted last Wednesday by a

Washington, DC – 16 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Deborah Greenspan and Fredric (Rick) Brooks joined Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group on January 3, 2005. Ms. Greenspan, Partner, and Mr. Brooks, Counsel, previously practiced at The Feinberg Group, LLP, in Washington, DC and New

16 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy is advising Future plc (“Future”), the international publisher of special-interest consumer magazines, on its recommended offer for Highbury House Communications plc (“Highbury”). The offer is a share offer with a partial cash alternative. The partial cash alternative will be funded from

Washington, DC – 15 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Corporate & Finance attorneys Andrew J. Sherman and Alan J. Schaeffer joined the Washington, DC office of Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP as Partners on February 1, 2005. The two Partners enhance Dickstein Shapiro’s Corporate & Finance Group by adding

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — NASD has charged American Funds Distributors, Inc. (AFD) with violating NASD’s Anti-Reciprocal Rule by directing approximately $100 million in brokerage commissions over a three- year period to about 50 brokerage firms that were the top sellers of American Funds. The payments were made

Boston, MA – February 16, 2005 – DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, today announced that four senior lawyers have joined its Boston office from Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault. Michael Collins, Kimberley J. Kaplan-Gross and Howard S. Rosenblum have become partners in the Corporate and Securities group;

RADNOR, Pa., Feb. 15 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — The following statement was issued today by the law firm of Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP: Notice is hereby given that a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of

On 15 February 2005, the European Court of Justice dismissed the European Commission’s appeal against the annulment of its prohibition of the Tetra Laval/Sidel merger. The Commission prohibition decision On 30 October 2001, the Commission prohibited the merger between Swiss-based Tetra Laval and French company Sidel. Tetra’s activities include liquid food carton packaging, for which