DALLAS/HOUSTON – LAWFUEL – American Lawyer News – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP announces the promotion of nine new partners in the firm’s Dallas and Houston offices, effective April 1, 2007. The new partners are R. Craig Baker, Steven S. Camp, Michael P. Cooley, John A. Eliason, Brett D. Lamb, Colin Martin, Robert T. Slovak, Jeannette […]

Lawfuel.com – The paternity battle over Anna Nicole Smith’s baby daughter has resulted in one mouth swab test taken, but an appeal from Howard Stern, who is disapproves of the judge’s direction for a DNA swab test on baby Daniellyn. Court TV reported the mouth swab test had already been done and would be sent

Summer Internship Candidates from Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia and Virginia Are First to Benefit from Bain’s 3D Virtual Recruiting Center in Second Life® NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – Law Jobs News –Embarking on a “3D virtual world” pilot project which could foreshadow major changes in corporate recruiting practices at colleges and universities, Bain & Company this

In less than two weeks, 2008 H-1B filing will begin; VISANOW provides top 5 insights for successfully filing H-1B visa applications CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – Immigration Law – With the start date looming for filing fiscal year (FY) 2008 H-1B visa petitions, many companies are racing to accurately prepare the paperwork and gather the complete

WASHINGTON–LAWFUEL – Securities Law –Securities class action settlements in 2006 have exceeded, by a landslide, all totals from previous years according to a report released today by Cornerstone Research. The $6.6 billion partial settlement in the Enron matter approved in 2006 brought the total Enron settlement fund to $7.1 billion, making it the largest securities

TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced his office has reached an agreement with Tampa-based Jim Walter Homes, Inc. addressing misleading representations about the length of the construction process for new homes and the builder’s unresponsiveness to several consumer complaints. The company, a leading builder of new homes, agreed to modify

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Eight federal regulators today released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) requesting comment on a model privacy form that financial institutions can use for their privacy notices to consumers required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act). The privacy notices must describe an institution’s information sharing practices, and, for certain

Washington, D.C., March 21, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the distribution of approximately $38 million in Fair Funds to approximately 810 mutual funds that were victims of fraudulent market timing and late trading by the Veras hedge funds. The funds distributed reflect the entirety of the disgorgement and civil

David J. Cohen, new SMBB Class Action Partner. (PRNewsFoto/Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky, PC) Class action perfect complement to current focus and client base PHILADELPHIA, March 21 LAWFUEL – Class Action Law News — Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky, PC, will begin an aggressive expansion into the field of class action litigation, starting with the

Lawfuel.com – A House Judiciary subcommittee today authorized subpoenas for Karl Rove, President Bush’s political adviser, and other senior White House officials in the investigation into the firing of eight United States attorneys. Lawfuel.com – The Net’s law news network