LAWFUEL – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – The WSJ Law Blog reports on The White House guest list for Her Majesty’s President Bush-hosted dinner, asking which of the following lawyers will be slurping spring pea soup with fernleaf lavender tonight? (a) Jane Sullivan Roberts, partner, Pillsbury Winthrop (b) Philip Perry, partner, Latham & Watkins (c) Fred […]

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a settled administrative proceeding against Zurich Capital Markets Inc. (ZCM) for its role in providing financing to hedge fund clients that engaged in market timing of mutual funds and facilitating the hedge funds’ deceptive trading tactics.

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – New York – May 7, 2007 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising Liberty Mutual Group in its proposed acquisition of Ohio Casualty Corporation. The transaction, which was announced today, is valued at approximately $2.7 billion. Liberty Mutual Group is a diversified global insurer and sixth largest property and

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007 – The Investor and Capital Markets Fee Relief Act requires that the Commission make annual adjustments to the rates for fees paid under Section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 13(e), 14(g), and 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007 – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today announced the appointment of Katherine Addleman as the Regional Director of the Atlanta Regional Office. Ms. Addleman, who is currently the Associate Regional Director for Enforcement in the Fort Worth Regional Office, will assume her

BOSTON–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A conference of corporate general counsel and defense attorneys, sponsored jointly by the Boston law firm of Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP and the Association of Corporate Counsel-Northeast Chapter (ACC), found that corporate in-house counsel are increasingly being subjected to government criminal investigations and that fundamental protections of attorney-client

BlackBerry ISV Alliance Member and WES 2007 Silver Sponsor PaperIQ marks the start of the biggest BlackBerry event of the year with the launch of their Enterprise Digital Dictation for BlackBerry application in partnership with BigHand3, the market-leading Digital Dictation Workflow system for professional services organizations. LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – May 7, 2007

Paris Hilton’s publicist, Elliot Mintz, blamed for creating Hilton’s misunderstanding of the original court ruling leading to her prison sentence,issued the following statement to website TMZ.com: “The day after the hearing, I sent an e-mail expressing my sadness over the ruling of the judge and the irrational sentence he imposed. In that e-mail I also

HOUSTON–LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – SigniaDocs, Inc., a service provider of solutions for mortgage document preparation, guarantees compliance for all mortgage loan documents by partnering with an experienced real estate-focused law firm, Shanks Darby, P.C. The attorneys have close to 30 years of experience working with real estate regulations and the mortgage industry. The

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – A Morrison & Foerster trial team has won complete acquittal for a former biotechnology sales executive accused of conspiracy and two other counts under the federal Anti-Kickback law. Following a two-week trial before Judge Joseph Tauro in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in Boston, a 12-person