LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Cravath has been ranked in the first tier in securities litigation by The Legal 500 US. The publication also ranked Cravath Presiding Partner Evan R. Chesler as one of the ten leading trial lawyers in the United States. The Legal 500 states that the Firm’s litigators are “described by […]

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The New York Times reported that a judge today ordered a tearful Paris Hilton back to jail, reversing a decision by the Los Angeles County sheriff to release her and keep her under house arrest after she had served only five days of a 45-day sentence. Superior Court Judge

Friday 8 June 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reissued its Policy Statement 184 Superannuation: Delivery of product disclosure strategies (PS 184) which deals with how superannuation trustees (trustees) can comply with section 1012IA of the Corporations Act (the Act) and deliver product disclosure information about

London – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – DLA Piper has advised Bank of Scotland Corporate on the sale of its 49% share in Red Funnel Group, the Isle of Wight ferry operator, to Infracapital Partners LP, the infrastructure fund of the Prudential Group. DLA Piper originally acted for the Bank of Scotland Corporate in

TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A Palm Beach County man is in custody today after investigators with Attorney General Bill McCollum’s Child Predator CyberCrime Unit discovered his online distribution of child pornography. Chad Langston, 24, was arrested by authorities with the CyberCrime Unit. Langston is the third arrest made by the

SACRAMENTO- LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire -United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that DARRYL SCOTT POLL, age 44, of Moorpark, California was sentenced late yesterday by United States District Judge David F. Levi to five years of prison for his participation in a nationwide and international cable piracy scheme that resulted in the

SANTA MONICA, Calif.–LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – This afternoon, a Santa Monica Superior Court jury awarded $13,820,000 in damages to Joseph L. Garcia in his negligence case against the MTA (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority). Mr. Garcia was a passenger in an MTA bus which hit a parked vehicle, causing him to

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Serious constitutional issues are raised by the conviction of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby according to a dozen prominent legal scholars, as Jurist reports. A dozen prominent legal scholars submitted an amicus curiae brief on behalf of former vice-presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Thursday, arguing that Libby’s conviction could

Washington, D.C., June 8, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Securities Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the final agenda and participants for the upcoming roundtable on mutual recognition scheduled for June 12, 2007. The roundtable will examine how retail and institutional investors, U.S. and non-U.S. exchanges, global and regional broker-dealers, and