LOS ANGELES, September 8 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for attorney news, law firms, law news, legal news Piper Rudnick LLP partner Jane Barrett has been appointed to the new committee of the American Bar Association’s Center for Racial and Ethnic Diversity. She was appointed to the committee by Robert Grey, Jr., the new president of […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for attorney news, law firms, legal news, entertainment law, M&A law Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that corporate lawyer Ruth Fisher has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as a partner. Formerly with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Fisher focuses her practice on

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 12 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for Law news, Attorney & Lawyer news, Law firm news, Bankrupcy, Tax & legal news US Airways Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: UAIR) today announced that the Company and certain of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The Company said

CHICAGO, September 10, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, law, law firm management, legal news Winston & Strawn LLP (Winston) delivers again on its promise to increase its West Coast operations with David M. Hickey, who joined the firm from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP (Skadden). Hickey joins Winston’s growing Los Angeles

SAN FRANCISCO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — September 11, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, mergers & acquisitions, legal news, law research Fenwick & West LLP represented its client Cisco Systems, Inc. in its proposed acquisition of NetSolve, Incorporated, announced today. NetSolve, based in Austin, Texas and traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market, is

FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Sept. 11 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, class actions, legal news, law, legal research Shepherd, Finkelman, Miller & Shah, LLC (http://www.classactioncounsel.com; e-mail: sshepherd@classactioncounsel.com), a law firm with offices in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States

NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, legal news, law, politics, legal research According to Bush campaign documents obtained by Newsweek, the campaign is recruiting Christian evangelical pastors to preach about the virtues of Bush to their flocks. In one appeal sent out this summer, the campaign instructed volunteers to distribute

PALO ALTO, CA (August 9, 2004) LAWFUEL – Best for law news, law, legal news, law jobs – Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the premier provider of legal services to technology and growth enterprises worldwide, today announced that it has expanded its litigation practice with the addition of a new partner, Terry Kearney. Kearney, who

September 11, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, law, legal news, banking law news The Firm recently represented The Bank of Yokohama and The Resolution and Collection Corporation of Japan (RCC), a subsidiary of The Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and a government agency, in its sale of 138,225,000 shares of common stock of

Tokyo, September 10, 2004 LAWFUEL – Best for law news, law, legal news, securities law, law research With hedge fund investment in Asia poised for a renewed surge, White & Case LLP today announced the formation of its Asia Investment and Hedge Funds Support Group (AIHFSG) to assist clients in the set-up and operation of