Mallesons Stephen Jaques has announced the appointment of Kathleen Harris as special counsel, to the firm’s national competition practice. Ms Harris has recently returned from the United States where she was the Deputy Bureau Chief of the New York Antitrust Bureau. During her tenure at the Antitrust Bureau, Ms Harris headed several price fixing cartel […]

eLaw, LLC (www.elaw.com) announced this morning that it will soon be releasing the remaining 49 counties in New York to join the original 13 county docket tracking website. Now, regardless of the venue, eLaw.com will provide case searching, docket tracking, calendaring, synchronizing, copying and appearing services for the entire State of New York. “We’ve attracted

Remember you heard it here first. You can buy it here too. Click the link (right) Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, today announced the publication of a new book, Electronic Discovery: Law and Practice, by Adam I. Cohen and David J. Lender, partners in the firm’s Litigation practice.

An Orange County man has been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison for operating a fraud scheme that swindled small businesses across the country by falsely promising to secure low-interest equipment lease financing and charging victims thousands of dollars in advance fees. Richard Allen La Bianco, 34, of Laguna Beach, was sentenced late Monday

Greenberg Traurig LLP announced today that Ian S. Marx joined the firm as of counsel in the New Jersey office. Mr. Marx has varied and extensive experience in the area of complex commercial litigation and provides the firm’s clients with representation and advice concerning disputes. His abundant courtroom experience includes appearances before numerous state and

Global law firm Clifford Chance has advised Man Group plc on its £105m acquisition of a 25% stake in hedge fund manager BlueCrest Capital Management in a deal announced yesterday. Approximately 5 million new shares will be issued to finance the deal, with £33.3m of cash coming from Man Group. Through RMF, a subsidiary, Man

Skadden is representing E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. in its $4.4 billion sale of INVISTA Inc., a textile manufacturer, to Koch Industries, Inc. INVISTA was formerly known as DuPont Textiles & Interiors. Koch is the second-largest private U.S. company and has extensive holdings in oil and gas, chemicals, minerals, ranching, and securities.

Litigation attorneys Leora Ben-Ami, head of the Intellectual Property Group in the Americas for Clifford Chance LLP, Thomas F. Fleming and Patricia A. Carson have joined Kaye Scholer LLP as partners. They will join the firm’s highly-regarded Patent Litigation Group in early December, it was announced today. Ben-Ami, best known for her representation of chemical

Coudert Brothers international law firm represented NEC Corporation in establishing a joint venture with Shanghai SVA (Group) Co., Ltd . over a TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor- Liquid Crystal Display) panels and modules manufacturing plant with design function in Shanghai, including negotiation and documentation; then represented the joint venture on its finance matters. The total investment

A team of O’Melveny & Myers LLP attorneys led by Newport Beach partner Tom Leary represented Red Robin Gourmet Burgers in its announced secondary offering. Additional O’Melveny & Myers team members included Newport Beach Transactions counsel Brandi Steege and associate Kirsten Foos, Century City Tax partner Robert Blashek, Los Angeles Tax counsel Luc Moritz, Tokyo