LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Judge in the Conrad Black fraud case sided with Federal prosecutors summing up their fraud case by agreeing to give the jurors the so-called “ostrich instruction”. The prosecutors can offer the jury two theories to convict the former press baron, Reuters reports: that he conceived and led a […]

Washington, D.C., June 13, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs & Legal Newswire -Baker & McKenzie LLP recently announced its annual North American Summer Associate Event will take place in Washington, D.C. at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on June 22-23. More than 70 summer associates from the Firm’s Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New York, San Diego,

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Socialite Paris Hilton has moved again, as reports from the Los Angeles Times show she has spent more time in jail than most people for similar probation offences. The newspaper’s findings came as detractors accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of giving preferential treatment to Hilton, who has

A US District Judge has recommended that prominent Mississippi trial lawyer Richard ‘Dickie’ Scruggs and his firm should be prosecuted on criminal contempt charges involving Hurricane Katrina damage documents taken from a Birmingham company. U.S. District Judge William Acker is requesting that federal prosecutors in north Alabama prosecute both Scruggs and the Scruggs Law Firm

Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2007 –(PR.com)– The Big Book of Legal Vendors, a comprehensive resource guide to thousands of vendors servicing the legal field is due out at the end of July. The book lists companies such as court reporters, litigation support, e-discovery, consultants, office suppliers, photocopying, imaging and scanning, coding, couriers, process servers,

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Bloombergs report that BAE Systems Plc appointed Harry Woolf, former chief judge of England and Wales, to lead a panel that will investigate the company’s ethical standards after allegations of secret payments to Saudi officials. Woolf’s group will examine “policies and processes,” BAE Chairman Dick Olver said today at

The prosecutor who pressed a false accusation of sexual assault against three former Duke University lacrosse players was disbarred with accusations of “dishonesty, fraud, deceipt or misrepresentation.” But the ruling was almost an anticlimax to the case because in the penalty phase of the five-day ethics hearing, David Freedman, one of Mr. Nifong’s lawyers, told

Detailed information regarding The Computer Forensics Show, February 5-6, 2008, at the Washington, DC Convention Center. A number of organizations have already responded regarding speaking and exhibiting opportunities at The Computer Forensics Show, including: FTI Consulting, Symantec, Getdata, Access Data, KPMG, United Forensics, Basis Technology Corp., The Norcross Group, ETG, Inc., ManTech Security and Mission

New York – June 15, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Business & Newswire – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Babcock & Brown in its definitive merger agreement to acquire 100% of the issued capital of Coinmach Service Corp., a leading supplier of outsourced laundry equipment services for multi-family housing properties in North America, for