Frankfurt, June 1, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw is advising the Ludwigshafen based company BASF AG and its subsidiary Wintershall AG regarding a dispute with Moncrief Oil International Inc. Moncrief Oil International Inc. claims it was excluded from the exploitation of the Jushno-Russkoye gas field in […]

New York/Washington, June 1, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – Dewey Ballantine LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that Todd McArthur has joined the firm’s Tax Department as a partner resident in the Washington, D.C. office. Mr. McArthur joins the firm from the tax practice of KPMG LLP where

Provides a “How-To” Publication for the Appointment of State Court Judges NEW YORK, NY, June 1, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Fordham Law School is pleased to announce the Fordham Urban Law Journal’s presentation of 20 articles from experts throughout the country studying the critical question of judicial selection and offering

MINNEAPOLIS, June 1, 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire — Earlier this week, Lockridge Grindal Nauen P.L.L.P. filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Fremont General Corporation (“Fremont”) (NYSE:FMT) for violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) from January 1,

LAWFUEL- The Law News Wire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Robert Parker, Chief, Miami-Dade Police Department, Amos Rojas Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Julie Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, announced the May 30, 3007

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

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

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.

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