CHARLOTTE (July 20) – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that it is adding 10 new attorneys to its Charlotte office representing five primary areas of practice– Taxation (Corporate); Employee Benefits; Finance; Intellectual Property; and Litigation. Five of the additions, including three partners, are permanently transferring from the firm’s other offices; two attorneys, including one counsel, are […]

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Mort Zuckerman, billionaire, publisher, real estate developer, financier and lawyer (yes, he’s got two law degrees) has never practised but had some interesting things to say in the New Yorker profile. He often says that the law is the opposite of sex: “Even when it’s good, it’s lousy.” The

London & Warsaw -LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Allen & Overy LLP has advised PKO Bank Polski, Poland’s leading retail bank, on its cooperation with NatWest, a member of the Royal Bank of Scotland group, in the British market. The cooperation agreement with NatWest is aimed at developing modern and customer-friendly products and financial

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Arthur Blank, the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, who has had a close relationship with quarterback Michael Vick, said he was “saddened and distressed” by Vick’s federal indictment on charges relating to dogfighting, the New York Times reports. Blank, who made his first comments yesterday after returning from an

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 19, 2007 — LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Joyce L. Bartoo has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as of counsel. Bartoo focuses her practice on antitrust, litigation and administrative/regulatory matters. For the past 13 years, Bartoo served as a trial attorney for

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JULIE MYERS, the Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”), DARRYL W. JACKSON, the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement of the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security

July 18, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Compagnie de Saint-Gobain on its acquisition of Owens Corning’s Siding Solutions business. Based in Ohio, Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions. Based in France, Saint-Gobain is a leading producer of flat

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – While Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco offer the marquee examples of CFOs brought down in the past five years of legal action against accounting abuses, a report issued by the President Bush’s Corporate Fraud Task Force calculates that at least 53 finance chiefs have been convicted since 2002. Lead story

— Clinic Files Amicus Brief for Human Rights Watch — STANFORD, Calif.– LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire –Stanford Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic (IRC) has filed an amicus brief on behalf of the organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) arguing that the U.S. immigration policy mandating deportation of legal immigrants convicted of a crime violates international