DALLAS – Andrews Kurth lawyer Mark Solomon has been appointed as Managing Partner of the firm’s Dallas office. He will also serve as a member of the newly formed Executive Committee which was created in conjunction with the election of a new firm-wide Managing Partner. “I am both honored and humbled by this incredible opportunity,” […]

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The Wall Street Journal – When President Bush issued an executive order in May barring federal agencies from hiring private lawyers on a contingency fee basis, the press corps yawned. But Mr. Bush was getting out ahead of one of the bigger legal battles now raging across the country: prosecutorial

SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, the national law and consulting firm, announced today that it has signed a lease for new office space at 111 Sutter Street in San Francisco’s financial district. Manatt will occupy two floors with office space

SAN FRANCISCO and WASHINGTON, July 2 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire — Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, an intellectual property law firm of more than 200 attorneys and patent professionals, announced today the opening of its eighth office, in Washington, DC. Townsend’s newest office is the firm’s first office on the U.S. East Coast

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – While Conrad Black waits to receive his jury’s verdict – which could mean jail for the rest of his life – another important trial starts in the same court building – four former Mafia bosses, the oldest being Joey Lombardo, accused of a lifetime in organized crime.

LAWFUEL – The New York Times’ Adam Liptak reports that in commuting I. Lewis Libby Jr.’s 30-month prison sentence on Monday, President Bush drew on the same array of arguments about the federal sentencing system often made by defense lawyers — and routinely and strenuously opposed by his own Justice Department. Critics of the federal

LAWFUEL – See ‘Hot Files’ on LawFuel.com – Nobody does it like Bruce Wasserstein, but now the lawyer-turned-banker-turned magnate is one less investment, but $600 million more in the account. Wasserstein’s sale of ALM Media, publisher of the American Lawyer et al, to Incisive Media, revealed a $400 million rise in value since he bought

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire –Wasserstein & Co., LP today announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the sale of ALM, a leading media company serving legal and business professionals, to Incisive Media, headquartered in London, for $630 million. The transaction is expected to close in the 3rd quarter of 2007. ALM

New York, NY, July 5, 2007 LAWFUEL – Class Action Litigation Newswire – Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (“SRZ”) is pleased to announce that the International Trade Commission (“ITC”) has agreed to review a final initial determination by an administrative law judge in the Seiko Epson ink cartridge investigation. SRZ had requested, on behalf of