ATLANTA, June 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Earnhart A. Spencer, Jr., an attorney with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, recently returned from a three week educational trip to Ghana. Mr. Spencer was selected to lead a group of nine Roanoke College students on a study trip to this West African nation. In addition to […]

San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Darren S. Weingard has joined Reed Smith LLP as Of Counsel in the Market Trial Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office, effective immediately. The 1990 graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law has been a Senior Attorney in the Commercial Litigation Department of

PHOENIX, June 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – With multinational companies facing delays and other problems in securing U.S. visas for foreign workers, the immigration law firm of Littler Mendelson Bacon & Dear is launching the legal industry’s first centralized service specializing in importing and exporting workers worldwide. LMB&D is a Phoenix-based affiliate of Littler Mendelson,

WASHINGTON, June 30, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Greenfield/Belser Ltd, the premier brand-design firm for the nation’s legal industry, announces the release of its new book, 25 Years of Legal Branding. The book memorializes the 25th anniversary of the 1977 landmark US Supreme Court decision Bates v. Arizona, which declared the prohibition of law firm advertising

29 June, 2004 – LAWFUEL – In a much publicized death penalty case, the United States Supreme Court this afternoon granted a stay of execution in the case of Texas inmate Mauro Barraza who was sentenced to death for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. Jenner & Block Partner Scott T.

HARTFORD, Conn., June 29, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The law firm of Schatz & Nobel, P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York on behalf of

New York, NY, June 28, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP today announced that it has signed a lease for 138,000 square feet of space in the new Times Square Tower, located at 7 Times Square. The move is expected take place in early 2005. Heller Ehrman’s New York office, which

Washington, D.C., June 29, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today a settled enforcement action against Banc One Investment Advisors Corporation (BOIA), a registered investment adviser based in Columbus, Ohio, and Mark A. Beeson, age 46, of Westerville, Ohio, former President and CEO of One Group Mutual Funds (One Group) and

June 29, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; and Jesus Torres (Miami) and Roberto G. Medina (Puerto Rico), Special Agents in Charge, of the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, announced today that defendant, David Tomkins, has pleaded guilty to an Indictment

SAN FRANCISCO and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 29, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Fenwick & West LLP represented its client Cisco Systems, Inc. in its announced acquisition of Actona Technologies, Inc., a developer of wide-area file service software. Actona’s technology will expand the functionality of Cisco’s network solutions for distributed enterprises. Cisco will pay approximately $82