LOS ANGELES– LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire –Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Pink Sheets:VTSS) today announced it has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court for the County of Los Angeles against auditing firm KPMG, LLP alleging KPMG failed to properly provide auditing and other services to Vitesse during the time period 1994 to 2000. By way […]

CHICAGO– LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire –Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP has announced that Michael R. Hassan has joined the firm as a partner. For more than 30 years, Mr. Hassan practiced law with Lord, Bissell & Brook. At Butler Rubin, Mr. Hassan will be part of the business litigation group which serves

Sycamore Networks Wins Dismissal of Stock Options Backdating (June 2007) LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Lawsuit Skadden attorneys won dismissal of a shareholder derivative lawsuit alleging stock options backdating for client Sycamore Networks, Inc., in the Delaware Court of Chancery. The potentially pivotal decision, issued on June 7, is one of the first court

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – The operators of an X-rated Paris Hilton web site exposed the credit card numbers and identities of about 750 subscribers who signed up after the site recently returned online in the face of a federal court injunction, The Smoking Gun website reports. LawFuel.com is the

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Lawfuel’s lead story, from ‘The Times’, reports that the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has the butchers of Darfur in his sights. The Darfur investigation could lead to the first prosecution by the court since it was set up in 2002, involving a member of an African

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The informant who helped bust the JFK airport terrorism case was involved with a violent drug gang and co-operated with investigators after NYPD detectives charged him over $2million in cocaine, according to the Smoking Gun website. Additionally, the informant, Stevie “Toro” Francis, was previously convicted on felony charges for

Chicago – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit in Champaign County Circuit Court against Carle Clinic Association, P.C. of Urbana and Christie Clinic, P.C. of Champaign, alleging that the clinics violated the Illinois Antitrust Act by illegally agreeing to stop accepting new Medicaid-eligible patients seeking primary medical

LAWFUEL – First With Law News – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BELLE SIX, a former employee of Ernst & Young (“E&Y”), pleaded guilty earlier today to a one-count Information charging her with conspiracy to commit tax fraud. According to the Information filed in Manhattan

Directors of Publicly Traded Companies Cites Firms with Corporate Expertise BOSTON– LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire –Corporate Board Member magazine has named Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. among the best corporate law firms in Boston, based on the results of the publication’s seventh annual Legal Industry Research Survey. According to the directors