BALTIMORE 17 October 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, law firm news – Ava E. Lias-Booker has joined the Baltimore office of McGuireWoods LLP as partner and head of the Baltimore office’s Commercial Litigation Department. She will focus her practice on complex and general business and financial disputes in both state and federal courts. Prior […]

16 October 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, attorney, legal, law firm newsDLA has appointed Simmons & Simmons’ former Director of Finance, Paul Edwards, as Chief Financial Officer. Paul takes over from David Liddle, who has been DLA’s Director of Finance since 1990. Paul Edwards spent seven years at Simmons & Simmons (having joined in 1996) and

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Oct. 17 2004 LAWFUEL – Lawsuit, law, legal, attorney, law firm news Popular, Inc., the 31st largest bank holding company in the U.S, and Banco Popular, Puerto Rico’s largest banking institution, were recently sued in The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico for multiple banking and antitrust

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 15 2004 LAWFUEL – Lawsuit, law, legal, attorney, law firm news A jury in Federal Court – North District of Illinois today unanimously ruled in favor of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in an antitrust suit brought against the company by Cigarettes Cheaper, a retailer headquartered in Benicia, Calif. “We are pleased with

16 October 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, crime, legal, attorney, law firm newsMarcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael S. Clemens, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Stephen M. Cutler, Director, Division of Enforcement, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.; Dave Nelson, Regional Director, Securities and

LAWFUEL – Law, legal, attorney, law firm newsDLA has advised Catalyst Healthcare, a PFI hospital consortium comprising the Bank of Scotland and Bovis Land Lease in a groundbreaking credit guarantee finance scheme (CGF) deal, the first of its kind in the UK. The £220m PFI healthcare investment is the first scheme to be part funded

LawTunes announces the release of “Legal Holidaze,” the follow-up to the groundbreaking debut, “The Lawyer’s Holiday Humor Album.” Composed, performed, and produced by litigation attorney Lawrence Savell, the CD contains ten rockin’ holiday tunes taking on such subjects as lawyer marketing, continuing legal education, document review and production, expert witnesses, and bar exams. October 15,

Washington , D.C. , Oct. 15, 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, legal, SEC, attorney, law firm news- Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman William H. Donaldson today announced the selection of Julie A. Erhardt to serve as Deputy Chief Accountant for the Commission. As Deputy Chief Accountant, Erhardt will report to Donald T. Nicolaisen, Chief Accountant. She

NEW YORK, Oct. 15 2004 LAWFUEL – Class action, legal, attorney, law firm news Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of all persons who purchased or acquired the securities of IAC/INTERACTIVECORP (“IAC” or the

BOSTON, Oct. 15 2004 LAWFUEL – Law, crime, legal, attorney, law firm news — The former Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Deposition Technologies, Inc. was sentenced late yesterday in federal court on charges that he falsely inflated corporate sales figures in order to obtain additional funds from the company’s bank. United States Attorney Michael J.