The Law Firms of Brown & Crouppen and Richard Schwartz & Associates Respond to the Joint FDA-CDC Statement on the Investigation of Cronobacter Bacteria Illness in Babies

ST. LOUIS, Jan 01, 2012 LawFuel.com — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control have announced the preliminary laboratory test results of baby formula involved in a recent case where a Cronobacter bacterial infection resulted in the death of Avery Cornett, a 10-day-old baby in Missouri. Three other infants are […]

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Former Justice Minister Simon Power Announced as Lawfuel’s Lawyer of the Year

Lawfuel.com – Former National Party Justice Minister Simon Power has been announced as New Zealand “Lawyer of the Year” by LawFuel.co.nz, the NZ law and legal news site. Power, who resigned from Parliament at this year’s election, won by the National Party, has been involved in widespread legal reform in New Zealand in everything from

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The lawyers and the lobbyists – How to the two combine effectively?

Lawfuel.net – Combining lawyers and lobbyists in one firm has been an issue for law firms for some time but now it seems that forming separate business units is one way forward. The Washington Post’s “Capital Business” reports that Bracewell & Giuliani and Duane Morris, who are forming new business units involving both lawyers and

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Davis Polk Advises Banco de Bogotá on Its $500 Million Term Loan Credit Facility

12/22/2011 Davis Polk advised Banco de Bogotá, S.A., a part of the Grupo Aval Acciones Y Valores S.A. banking group, with respect to a US$500 million senior unsecured term loan credit facility. The proceeds of the loans will be used first, to repay amounts outstanding under its $1 billion senior unsecured bridge loan facility, and,

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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REACHES $335 MILLION SETTLEMENT TO RESOLVE ALLEGATIONS OF LENDING DISCRIMINATION BY COUNTRYWIDE FINANCIAL CORPORATION

More than 200,000 African-American and Hispanic Borrowers who Qualified for Loans were Charged Higher Fees or Placed into Subprime Loans WASHINGTON – 21 December 2011 – The Department of Justice today filed its largest residential fair lending settlement in history to resolve allegations that Countrywide Financial Corporation and its subsidiaries engaged in a widespread pattern

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Fortune Magazine Ranks Adams and Reese Among Top Law Firms in Southeast Region

22 December 2011 – Adams and Reese is listed on the “2012 Top Ranked Law Firms” list among the top Southeast Region law firms the December 2011 edition of Fortune Investor’s Guide 2012 magazine in which LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® and Fortune Magazine listed law firms in the United States, as determined by the firm’s percentage of

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DLA PIPER WINS THREE M&A ATLAS AWARDS INCLUDING M&A LAWYER OF THE YEAR

19 December 2011 – Hong Kong – DLA Piper won three trophies at the 2011 M&A Atlas Awards – Asia Pacific Middle Markets. The firm’s Asia Head of Corporate, Mabel Lui, was named “M&A Lawyer of the Year”; H.J. Heinz Company ‘s acquisition of Foodstar from Transpac Industrial Holdings Ltd (Transpac) was named the “Cross

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IP litigation may be his main bag of tricks, but for Cravath Swaine litigator David Herrington, saving a man from Tennessee’s death row has become something the fifth year Big Law associate has become passionate about. And he’s just achieved another step towards moving his client off death row.

Cleary deathrow

In a pro bono victory for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers, a Tennessee appeals court has vacated the 1985 felony murder conviction of former death row inmate Erskine Johnson and remanded his case for a new trial. The decision—issued on December 9 by the Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court in Jackson—was in large part the

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