LAWFUEL – Sports Law News Wire – Faced with the opposition of Stanford and Cal, the NFL has changed courses on its efforts to trademark the phrase “The Big Game.” It has decided to punt, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. On Friday it abandoned its applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to register […]

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – United States appeals court rejected on Friday an attempt by disappointed Formula One fans to get their money back for having to watch the 2005 US Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Reuters report. The seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, in a 3-0 decision, upheld a

LAWFUEL – Law News Wire – British prosecutors could charge Andrei Lugovoi’s friend and business partner Dmitry Kovtun of involvement in the murder of former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Litvinenko, Interfax reports. According to the materials of the criminal case, Kovtun is thought to be his accomplice, well-informed sources in

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Clifford Chance announces its financial results for the year ended 30 April 2007 Clifford Chance today announced that revenues increased by 16% to £1,194 million (2006: £1,029 million) for the financial year ended 30 April 2007. Excluding the effect of exchange rate changes, underlying growth was 18%. Average

SEATTLE, May 25 LAWFUEL – Law Jobs & Law News Wire — The board and staff of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle send our condolences to King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng’s family, friends and staff on Mr. Maleng’s sudden death. Mr. Maleng’s ongoing commitment to justice over his accomplished career made our King County

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Amid signs that Portugese police are making little effort in tracking the abductor of four-year-old Madeleine McCann, a team of British specialists has arrived in Portugal to attempt to trace the offender by following a trail left by mobile phone signals around the Algarve resort where Madeleine was

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Defence lawyers at the Conrad Black fraud trial will likely begin their case this week by telling jurors that the embattled media mogul behaved like any other media executive when he took disputed payments and is in no way the criminal prosecutors have depicted, the Montreal Gazette reports.

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Air France-KLM ran up US legal costs of €10m ($13.4m) in the past financial year fighting class-action suits against the group for its role in alleged price-fixing of freight rates in its air cargo operations but has yet to make any provision for these costs in its accounts,

LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Recently-floated Australian law firm Slater & Gordon will use its booming share price and $2.3 million in debt to buy a small Queensland law firm that specialises in military compensation claims. The deal was unveiled yesterday, one week after Slaters became the first law firm to list its shares

LAWFUEL – USA Today reports that the owners of dead or injured animals are expressing anger and frustration at getting repeated telephone calls that a federal judge has called “abusive and harassing” from the company at the heart of the contaminated pet food scandal. Claire Moonjian of Georgetown, S.C., lost her dog, Sophie, to kidney