LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has entered into a definitive agreement to be purchased by News Corporation for approximately $5.6 billion. Skadden Arps is representing News Corporation. After weeks of negotiations, members of the Bancroft family, who represent 37 percent of the voting shares […]

LAWFUEL – Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, died yesterday at his home in Richmond. He was 100. In 1954, Mr. Hill was part of a series of lawsuits against racially segregated public schools that became the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson Jr. became the poster boy for frivolous lawsuits with his unsuccessful $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaner over a lost pair of pants. But questions about his temperament and demeanor as an administrative law judge had surfaced long before a media firestorm engulfed

LawJobsPipeline – The Legal Career Blog – If you believe The Secret then focusing on what you don’t want can actually lead you to it by default – a kind of reverse-psychology effect. And so we don’t like harping on about stress issues, but to be aware is to be forewarned and, we hope, can

Clifford Chance today announced audited financial results for the financial year ended 30 April 2007. Revenues increased by 16%* to £1,194 million (2005/06: £1,029 million), and average profit per partner increased by 26% to £1,023,000 (2005/06: £814,000). When the preliminary figures were announced on 29 May 2007, managing partner David Childs commented: “We have achieved

LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – The Times’ Lawyer of the Week is Sandhya Drew, the barrister who represented John Reaney in his successful claim of discrimination against the Church of England Sandhya Drew, a barrister at Tooks Chambers, represented John Reaney in his successful claim against the Hereford Diocese of the Church of England

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A US soldier found guility of the gange rape and murder of an Iraqi girl received a 110 year jail sentence today, although the victim’s family hoped for the death penalty. The family of a teenage Iraqi girl gang raped and murdered by U.S. troops said on Sunday they

LAWFUEL – A Portugese newspaper has reported that Madeleine McCann, the four-year-old British girl abducted last May, may have been murdered in her bedroom. Correio da Manha said British and Portugese police had begun a search of the house and the grounds. The house is owed by Robert Murat, 33, and was searched days after

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – LawFuel’s lead story, from The Washington Post, reports that the Bush Administration has obtained enhanced ability to intercept electronic communications without Court orders in its terrorist surveillance program, despite some stringent objections. The Democratic-controlled House has approved and sent to President Bush for his signature legislation written by his