LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Socialite Paris Hilton has moved again, as reports from the Los Angeles Times show she has spent more time in jail than most people for similar probation offences. The newspaper’s findings came as detractors accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of giving preferential treatment to Hilton, who has […]

A US District Judge has recommended that prominent Mississippi trial lawyer Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs and his firm should be prosecuted on criminal contempt charges involving Hurricane Katrina damage documents taken from a Birmingham company. U.S. District Judge William Acker is requesting that federal prosecutors in north Alabama prosecute both Scruggs and the Scruggs Law Firm

Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2007 –(PR.com)– The Big Book of Legal Vendors, a comprehensive resource guide to thousands of vendors servicing the legal field is due out at the end of July. The book lists companies such as court reporters, litigation support, e-discovery, consultants, office suppliers, photocopying, imaging and scanning, coding, couriers, process servers,

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Bloombergs report that BAE Systems Plc appointed Harry Woolf, former chief judge of England and Wales, to lead a panel that will investigate the company’s ethical standards after allegations of secret payments to Saudi officials. Woolf’s group will examine “policies and processes,” BAE Chairman Dick Olver said today at

The prosecutor who pressed a false accusation of sexual assault against three former Duke University lacrosse players was disbarred with accusations of “dishonesty, fraud, deceipt or misrepresentation.” But the ruling was almost an anticlimax to the case because in the penalty phase of the five-day ethics hearing, David Freedman, one of Mr. Nifong’s lawyers, told

Detailed information regarding The Computer Forensics Show, February 5-6, 2008, at the Washington, DC Convention Center. A number of organizations have already responded regarding speaking and exhibiting opportunities at The Computer Forensics Show, including: FTI Consulting, Symantec, Getdata, Access Data, KPMG, United Forensics, Basis Technology Corp., The Norcross Group, ETG, Inc., ManTech Security and Mission

New York – June 15, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Business & Newswire – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Babcock & Brown in its definitive merger agreement to acquire 100% of the issued capital of Coinmach Service Corp., a leading supplier of outsourced laundry equipment services for multi-family housing properties in North America, for

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Chadbourne & Parke is in preliminary merger discussions with the London-based firm Watson, Farley & Williams, Chadbourne’s managing partner Charlie O’Neill confirmed Friday, American Lawyer reports. If Chadbourne’s merger with Watson succeeds, the combined firm would have more than 600 lawyers and combined revenues of more than $350 million.

LAWFUEL – Law Jobs & Law Newswire – The battle between US and UK law firms in London appears to be won by the home team. A survey by UK legal magazine ‘The Lawyer’ shows that the battle for talent may be won by UK law firms, with only 7 per cent of associates finding