LAWFUEL – The most dramatic exchanges in the Phil Spector murder trial Thursday occurred away from the jury, as defense lawyers pushed to allow jurors to hear statements Spector made to police after his arrest, as well as what was written on Lana Clarkson’s computer suggesting she was despondent shortly before her death, the LA […]
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Environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) Canada launched a lawsuit earlier this week against the country’s Conservative Government for its failure to meet international commitments under the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “Because climate change is the most urgent crisis ever facing the planet, Friends of the Earth is resorting to the
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LAWFUEL’s lead story, from the New York times, reports that a top woman lawyer hit GE’s glass ceiling and has landed her former employer with a lawsuit accusing the company of systematically discriminating against women in both pay and promotions. Yesterday Ms. Schaefer, 43, filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Connecticut, accusing G.E.
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Lorene F. Schaefer says she moved steadily up General Electric’s in-house legal ladder for 13 years, getting praise and stock grants each step along the way. She made it as far as general counsel for GE Transportation. But this year, she said in an interview, “I bumped up against an absolute glass ceiling into the
Conrad Black’s long-time secretary testified on Thursday that the former media kingpin did not even look inside a number of boxes she had packed and he later removed from their Canadian office in what prosecutors have depicted as a move by Black to hide important evidence, Reuters report. Joan Maida, Black’s secretary since 1994, was
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Profit per equity partner (PEP) at Clifford Chance has smashed through the £1 million mark for the first time as the world’s biggest law firm saw revenues climb 16 per cent to £1.2 billion. Clifford Chance’s PEP – a popular measure of law firm profitability calculated by dividing total profits by the number of partners
LAWFUEL – Law Jobs News Wire – Law firm Chapman Tripp has promoted six new principals; Jackie Floyd (Auckland), Nick Lough (Wellington), Clare Sinnott (Wellington), Catherine Somerville (Auckland), Tim Tubman (Auckland) and Jeff Walters (Wellington). Floyd specialises in corporate and commercial law and has extensive experience in the energy industry, Lough specialises in corporate and
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LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – A consortium of UK Law Firms have today launched a national free insurance policy for road users which aims to challenge the murkier practices of the insurance industry and motoring organisation which routinely sell on personal injury claims to the highest bidding claims-handling solicitor £700+. The new policy,
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LAWFUEL – The Legal News Wire – Sullivan & Cromwell LLP today announced that litigation partner Samuel W. Seymour will be the recipient of the 2007 John J. McCloy Award, which recognizes lawyers who have made outstanding contributions to improving the administration of justice in New York State. The award was announced by Victor A.
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TYLER, TEX. (May 25, 2007) – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – A team of Morrison & Foerster attorneys and their co-counsel have won dismissal of a patent infringement case brought against client EchoStar Communication Corp. after a Texas jury took just over an hour to find the plaintiff’s patent invalid. It was
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