LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The Parrish Law Firm, Northern Virginia’s premier boutique trial law firm, announced today the launch of a new website for the Firm’s Personal Injury Division. The new site provides information on the Firm’s expertise related to personal injury cases such as serious and catastrophic personal injuries, automobile and […]

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – The actress Keira Knightley accepted £3,000 libel damages yesterday over a newspaper article suggesting she was losing too much weight and could be anorexic. The 22-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star believes the Daily Mail article in January was “deeply offensive and embarrassing” and had suggested she had

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney’s unremorseful former top aide should be sentenced to 2 1/2 to 3 years in prison for perjury and obstruction of justice in a case linked to the Bush administration’s handling of the Iraq war, the special prosecutor in the case said on Friday,

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Fred Thompson, a potential Republican presidential candidate, suggested on Thursday that the 1986 immigration measure that President Ronald Reagan signed into law is to blame for illegal immigrants, the NY Times reports. “Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners announced on May 20 an agreement to acquire Alltel Corp. for $71.50 in cash per share, or approximately $27.5 billion (including debt), which represents a 23% premium over Alltel’s closing share price prior to December 2006 media reports of the potential deal.

23 May 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – The Homeland Security and Defense Business Council (the “Council”) has appointed Raj De to the Council’s Board of Advisors. A lawyer in the Washington, DC office of the international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, De will bring an impressive range of

LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Henry Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service, announced that defendants James Settembrino, Lee Samuel, Bernardo Susi, Charles Bohn and Benjamin Goss were sentenced today for conspiracy to commit mail fraud in

LAWFUEL – The SEC prevailed in the first case to go to trial involving the abuse of so-called finite insurance to commit securities fraud. The case involved a round-trip insurance transaction between Brightpoint and AIG that was designed to enable Brightpoint, an Indiana company, to conceal a substantial loss and inflate its net income. The

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – The Class Actions Lawsuit –Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/optionable/) today announced that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Optionable Inc. (“Optionable” or the “Company”) (OTCBB: OPBL)