Milberg Weiss ex-partner David Bershad agreed to plead guilty to charges related to a scheme to pay illegal kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities lawsuits, federal prosecutors said. Bershad, 67, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said today. He’ll forfeit $7.75 million, pay a $250,000 fine and […]

Legal action to secure equal pay for women in the public sector is being launched by Wales’ largest trade union. Unison, which represents more than 95,000 members in Wales, 65% of them female, said its campaign was on behalf of thousands of underpaid women. It said local councils had not stuck to the April 2007

ATLANTA (July 9) – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that it received a Beacon of Justice Award from the National Legal Aid & Defender Association (NLADA). Kilpatrick Stockton received this recognition, along with 58 other select law firms across the country, for its commitment to ensuring access to justice

DUBLIN, Ireland–LAWFUEL – The Business Law Newswire – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c61959) has announced the addition of “Seminar Archive: Software M&A Annual Review 2006, and How to Maximize Your Company’s Value in 2007” to their offering. 2006 was quite a year for M&A. Overall deals were up 30% worldwide. Deal volume in software sectors increased

SAN DIEGO–LAWFUEL – US Law Newswire –Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/midwaygames/) today announced that a class action has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of purchasers of Midway Games Inc. (“Midway”) (NYSE:MWY) common stock during the period between August

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Times reports that one of the London legal world’s most eagerly awaited spectacles for years is to start at an employment tribunal today when a senior City lawyer accuses his former partners of age discrimination. Peter Bloxham, the 54-year-old former head of restructuring for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, will

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Guardian reports that Jack Straw will face his first court challenge as lord chancellor next week when the Law Society, the Commission for Racial Equality and ethnic minority lawyers go to the high court to try to halt the government’s controversial shake-up of legal aid. They argue that

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – LawFuel’s lead story, from the Chicago Tribune, reports that while the Conrad Black trial jury finish their sixth day of deliberations without reaching a verdict, the question over what assets Black would get to retain, such as his Palm Beach mansion, is also yet to be decided. Bookmark LawFuel.com

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Australia’s Attorney General has announced that the five doctors questioned by federal police have been released on the basis that they will be available for further questioning. Philip Ruddock said that Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef was still being detained by authorities because he had attempted to leave the country