LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Along with Conrad Black, two lawyers from Hollingers were convicted on fraud charges, the Wall Street Journal reports. The WSJ Law Blog provided potted profiles: Peter Atkinson: When Conrad Black began to empire-build in the 1970s, he retained Peter Atkinson, then a litigator at Toronto’s Aird & Berlis. Atkinson […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to take control of Dow JOnes & Co Inc has been obstructed by a shareholder in the company in a last ditch effort to prevent the News Corp purchase. Christopher Bancroft, a member of the family that controls Dow Jones & Co Inc, is trying to

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Beijing is the world capital of malware-infected computers, with nearly five per cent of the world’s total. By cybercrime is spreading across t he globe, a new report shows. Lead story from Forbes on LawFuel.com Lawfuel – The World’s law newswire

SUGAR LAND, TX (July 16, 2007) – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire Advologix.comTM today announced the first web-based legal practice management solution, AdvologixPMTM now provides anywhere, anytime support with the Apple® iPhone™. The AdvologixPM Summer ’07 release is now available to new subscribers who can enjoy global access to all aspects of their legal practice

TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today recognized Deputy Michael Cohen of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office as the 2007 School Resource Officer (SRO) of the Year. The Attorney General’s Office presented the award this morning at the annual conference of the Florida Association of School Resource Officers in St. Pete Beach. The conference

WHO: Benita Lee Prol WHEN: June 27, 2007 WHERE: The Austin office of Winstead PC PRACTICE GROUP/SECTION: Public Finance – Associate EDUCATION: J.D., Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, New York, 1999

Boston — July 16, 2007 — LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, a national leader in representing technology and life sciences companies and litigating high-stakes commercial and intellectual property disputes, announced today it has opened an office in Boston. With the arrival of 10 Boston-based partners from several national firms

London – LAWFUEL – The Law Business News Wire – Allen & Overy LLP has advised Marfin Investment Group Holding S.A. (MIG), the Greek investment company, on its EUR5.19 billion global share offering. The transaction represents the largest public capital raising by an investment company in history, the largest rights issue ever in Greece and

13 July 2007 LAWFUEL – The Europe Law Newswire – International law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. (“Generali”) on its joint venture (“JV”) with PPF Group N.V. (“PPF”), which combines their Central and Eastern European businesses in twelve countries to create one of the region’s leading insurers. The new joint venture,