LOS ANGELES, June 6 LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire — On May 31, 2007, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP filed an ERISA class action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Fremont General Corporation (“Fremont”). The lawsuit seeks class action status on behalf of participants in two of Fremont’s […]

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Two law firms are heading a $600-million class action lawsuit against CIBC, alleging the bank has failed to pay front-line employees for extra work, CTV.ca reports. The Canadian firms, Roy Elliott Kim O’Connor LLP and Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, announced the lawsuit today, saying the action covers thousands of

LAWFUEL – The Business Law Newswire – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Deutsche Bank, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Morgan Stanley and one other bank, acting as joint global coordinators and bookrunners, in connection with European real estate company IMMOEAST AG’s capital increase worth €2.835bn. This marks the largest equity capital markets transaction carried out by a

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Jones Day has just assisted SAP, the world’s leading provider of business software, in acquiring OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation software targeted at CFOs. SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration,

Orlando, FL/ June 4, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Littler Mendelson P.C., the nation’s largest employment and labor law firm, is pleased to announce the opening of its forty-third office and the addition of six new attorneys. “With this new location, we can now provide Orlando employers with practical solutions to their

Washington, D.C., June 5, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – Leading mutual fund lawyer Thomas R. Smith, Jr. has joined the SEC’s Division of Investment Management as a Senior Advisor to Division Director Andrew J. Donohue. “Tom Smith is a senior statesman of the federal securities bar with significant experience in the Investment Company

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Effective July 16, 2007, there will be several major changes to the program of labor certification for the permanent employment of aliens in the United States, the first part of the process for most employer-sponsored permanent resident cases. Under the program, the Department of Labor certifies to the

LAWFUEL – The UK Law Newswire – London-based law firms Allen & Overy (A&O), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have won places on the UK Government’s new Catalist super panel, the replacement for L-Cat, ‘The Lawyer’ reports. The firms were lured by Catalist’s new high-paying £100m-plus ‘major projects’ sub-panel, known as Lot 8, having previously

Washington, D.C., June 5, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The US Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today a settled enforcement action against International Business Machines Corporation for making materially misleading statements in a chart concerning the impact that the company’s decision to expense employee stock options would have on its first quarter

A senior Justice Department official on Tuesday defended his decision to bring a Missouri voter fraud case just days before the 2006 election, despite guidelines discouraging such cases because of the potential to influence voting. Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pointed to the case as another example of the department acting out of partisan