Paris, 9th November – LAWFUEL – Law firm, law, legal, attorney news – The partners of Baker & Mckenzie SCP (Paris) have elected Laurent Epstein as the new Managing Partner of the Paris office. He succeeds Eric Lasry who has held this position since the 1st July 2003 and was elected, last month to the […]

Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2004 LAWFUEL – SEC, law, legal, law firm news – The Securities and Exchange Commission at an open meeting today voted to propose new rules and amend existing rules and forms under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 relating to the governance, transparency, oversight, and ownership of self-regulatory organizations (SROs), and

9 November 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, criminal law news Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and Rear Admiral D. Brian Peterman, Commander – 7th Coast Guard District, United States Coast Guard, announced today an Indictment returned on

DALLAS 9 November 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, law firm news – Doug Lukasik, an associate in the trial section at Dallas’ Gardere Wynne Sewell, earned the highest score of the 2,293 attorneys who took the July 2004 Texas Bar Exam. Mr. Lukasik scored an 852 out of a possible 1,000. His results included

NEW YORK, Nov. 8, 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, class action, litigation, legal news — Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow LLP filed a class action lawsuit on November 8, 2004 in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, on behalf of persons who purchased or otherwise acquired publicly traded securities of MedQuist

London, 9 November, 2004 LAWFUEL – MBO, Banking, securities, legal news — White & Case acted for the management, led by industry legend Harry Rawlinson, in the £82.5m Management Buy Out of the showers division of Baxi Holdings plc. The purchase consisted of two elements: firstly the share acquisition of Aqualisa Products Limited; and secondly

9 November 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, securities law, legal, attorney, law firm news Clifford Chance has assisted MBNA Europe Bank Limited in structuring and executing the first reverse enquiry driven trade through the newly established de-linked securitisation platform. This trade confirmed two key features of the new de-linked structure: • The issue was a single

8 November 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, crime, legal, attorney, law firm news An East Los Angeles man was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison for transporting more than 28,000 pounds of explosive fireworks without warning placards (signs) from Nevada to Los Angeles in June 2004. Joe Eduardo Gonzales Avila, 40, was sentenced this

8 November 2004 LAWFUEL – Crime, law, lawyer, attorney, legal news Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Robert J. Joura, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced today that defendant, Ze’ev Rosenstein, was arrested in Tel Aviv, Israel this morning based on a criminal complaint

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Nov. 8, 2004 LAWFUEL – Law technology, law, legal, law firm news— Open Source Risk Management (OSRM), the only vendor-neutral provider of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) risk mitigation and management solutions, today announced the launching of a study designed to assess whether current European laws regarding technology patents achieve their stated