Hong Kong – April 29 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Clifford Chance has once again been named “Best Funds Law Firm” at the FinanceAsia / AsianInvestor Magazine 2005 Achievement Awards. The prestigious award reflects the firm’s outstanding reputation and expertise in this sector. Now in its [fourth] year, the award seeks to […]

29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties will receive a total of $1.42 million from the Department of Justice to help solve “cold” cases and to identify missing persons through the use of DNA evidence. The three grants are part of $14.2 million in grants that

Palo Alto, CA—29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham (K&LNG) is pleased to announce the May 2, 2005 opening of its newest office in Palo Alto, California. With existing offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, K&LNG’s Palo Alto office strengthens the firm’s presence in California and

29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Two former top officials, including the ex-CEO, of Homestore.com, Inc. have been charged in both criminal and civil cases that allege they directed and participated in a scheme to inflate the company’s on-line advertising revenues through a series of fraudulent transactions in 2001. Stuart Wolff,

29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – LawFuel.com’s lead story from the American Lawyer looks at who are America’s biggest, deal-making law firms.

CHICAGO – 29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Twenty-eight McGuireWoods partners have been named Illinois Super Lawyers in a recent study by Law & Politics magazine. The findings were published in the May 2005 edition of Chicago magazine. 40% of McGuireWoods partners in its Chicago office were included in the results.

29 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Five men who participated in an insider trading ring that used non-public information obtained from two investment banking firms to trade stocks and collectively earn profits of more than $970,000 have been charged with conspiring with each other to commit fraud. The cases filed in

Philadelphia, Pa. – April 28, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that M. Kelly Tillery, a national authority in intellectual property and anti-counterfeiting protection, will join the firm on May 1 as a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in Philadelphia. “Kelly focuses his practice on IP

28 April – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – LawFuel.com’s lead story from the New York Times concerns Eliot Spitzer’s latest lawsuit, an attack upon an Internet marketing company and its spy software programs.

NEW YORK, April 29 – LAWFUEL – Aniello A. Bianco, managing director of the international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP, was honored by Pace University at the 2005 Leaders in Management Award Dinner on April 27 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City. Pace announced that the dinner took in nearly $500,000, the