LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Reed Smith, a top 15 international law firm, has awarded its annual Reed Smith Fellowship in Pittsburgh to University of Pittsburgh Law School student Robert D. Leonhard at a ceremony today at the firm’s Pittsburgh office. Established in 2002, the Reed Smith Fellowship Award is given annually to a […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – ~ Policies limiting occupancy may violate Fair Housing Act ~ TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that his office has issued a series of civil rights subpoenas to the Cornerstone Group and several of its apartment complexes in South Florida, seeking to determine if the company

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Lovells have been ranked at the top of Infrastructure Journal’s PPP Legal Adviser table, having closed the most PPP deals in the first half of this year. Infrastructure Journal reports that Lovells has advised on seven PPP deals with a combined value of US$3.2 billion (7.31% of market share)

LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – We have been shortlisted for the M&A Team of the Year Award in the 2007 Financial News Legal Awards. The winners, which will be chosen by the readers of Financial News magazine, will be announced on 8 November. Lovells was nominated for work advising US pharmaceuticals group Schering-Plough on

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Amid the storm of controversy and impeachment talk regarding embattled Department of Justice chief Alberto Gonzales, Vice President Dick Cheney continues to support the Attorney General. The Vice President also said that he disagreed with the jury’s verdict in the trial of his former chief of staff,I Lewis “Scooter”

The Executive Order from the White House made on July 17 has attracted huge interest on DIGG, the news aggregator: Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq White House News Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International Emergency Economic Powers Act By the authority vested in

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The first of the lawsuits relating to the Brazilian airline TAM’s air crash in Sao Paulo has been filed in the Southern District of Florida in relation to the family of a Miami resident killed in the disaster. Reuters report that the complaint also names European jet manufacturer Airbus,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Highlighting the power of a partnership between federal and local law enforcement authorities, 43 gang members and associates of “East Side Pain” who operated in the troubled “Ghost Town” section of South Los Angeles have been arrested on narcotics and weapons charges, and prosecutors have moved to forfeit and

NEW YORK, NY – July 31, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP announces the formation of an interdisciplinary Subprime Mortgage Practice Team focused on assisting clients with the significant fallout from recent events in that market. The team works with clients to analyze and evaluate the risks

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The lawyer for Mohammed Haneef, the doctor accused and then released from Australian custody on terrorism-related charges, says the Australian Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews is damaging Australian interests and using “smoke and mirrors” in his statements about his client. Peter Russo, who accompanied Doctor Haneef to his home in