LAWFUEL- The Law Firm News Wire – Clyde & Co, a leading international law firm in the Middle East, has been recognised as the top ranking commercial law firm in the UAE by the highly respected Legal 500 law directory (Europe, Middle East & Africa edition). For the third consecutive year, Clyde & Co has […]

Melbourne lawyers Slater and Gordon made legal and corporate history on Monday as the first law firm in the world to list on a stock exchange. As the personal injury specialists listed on the Australian stock exchange, managing director Andrew Grech revealed the firm already had an appetite to grow bigger. Mr Grech told reporters

A substantial vote of no confidence could lead to the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, according to reports. CNN report that a leading Republican senator predicted Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales would quit before facing a “substantial” no-confidence vote, but the White House said such a vote would have no effect on the

COLCHESTER, Conn., May 17, 2007 LAWFUEL- The Law News Wire — On May 16, 2007, Scott+Scott, LLP, filed a class action against Yahoo! Inc. (“Yahoo!” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq:YHOO) and certain of its officers and directors in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The action is on behalf of Yahoo! publicly

WELLINGTON, LawFuel® the legal news and law jobs website new report “The Big LLB’OE” (www.LawFuel.com) outlines some of the threats and opportunities facing both law firms and law graduates as they enter the New Zealand law workforce. The report outlines what law firms are having to do in the face of a highly competitive law

New York, May 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Dewey Ballantine LLP, a leading international law firm, announced today that Hugh T. Scogin, Jr. has joined the firm’s Corporate Department resident in the Beijing office. Scogin, formerly a partner in the China practice group of Coudert Brothers, has more than 20

LAWFUEL- The Law Firm News Wire – Litigation partners Michael Bennett and Joost Verlinden have been named as the new national heads of Linklaters’ litigation and arbitration practice in the UK and Belgium respectively. Michael Bennett has been with the firm for 18 years, becoming a partner in 1998. He has significant experience in commercial

Robert De Niro has filed an appeal against a lawsuit filed against him by insurers and relating to his prostate cancer diagnosis. The actor was sued by Fireman’s Fund Insurance in 2006 after he was diagnosed with the cancer, which lead to his inability to complete shooting the Film Hide and Seek, as scheduled. The

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm News Wire – Skadden acted as U.S. and Hong Kong counsel to China CITIC Bank Corporation Limited in its US$5.4 billion dual-listed initial public offering, the world’s largest IPO to date this year. The IPO consisted of an offering of 4.9 billion H shares (listed on the Hong Kong Stock