LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Julie Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced today’s conviction of defendant Kurt D. Anderson following a four-day trial in Fort Pierce on armed robbery, carjacking and firearms charges. Co-defendant […]

A federal appeals court removed a serious legal challenge to the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program yesterday, overruling the only judge who held that a controversial surveillance effort by the National Security Agency was unconstitutional, the Washington Post reports. Two members of a three-judge panel of the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Shopping for law firms to obtain better value is something Honeywell International Inc’s Peter Kreindler, the top lawyer at Honeywell, does very well. Bloomberg’s report. Kreindler said he hopes to trim work from hundreds of law firms in Europe this year to gain volume discounts. In the U.S.,

NEW YORK, July 6, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — The Brualdi Law Firm announces that a securities class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Threshold”) (Nasdaq:THLD) common stock during the period between February

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Reuters reports that New Jersey became on Friday the first U.S. state to mandate sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 to help fight climate change. The law, signed by Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, makes New Jersey the latest state to bypass the Bush administration by setting mandatory regulations

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – London law firms dominate global legal markets, according to a survey of legal firms published in the UK yesterday, reported in The Times. Partners are regularly earning in excess of £1 million a year with profits per partner up by 12 per cent, the data from Legal Business magazine

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire Service – The White House yesterday ridiculed Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton for complaining about President Bush’s decision to keep former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr. out of jail, saying their criticism smacks of hypocrisy, the Washington Post reports. “I don’t know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but

LONDON and NEW YORK, July 5 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire Service — Incisive Media, a leading business information provider, and ALM, a leading integrated media company, today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Incisive Media will acquire ALM from U.S. Equity Partners, L.P. for a total value of approximately $630

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Incisive Media, a British provider of business news, said yesterday that it would pay about $630 million to buy the publisher of The American Lawyer and other publications as it seeks to increase its product range and strengthen its business in North America, the New York Times reports. Incisive’s