TOPEKA, Kan., March 31 LAWFUEL – Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. today is issuing this press release directly to veterinarians and pet owners to clarify a potentially confusing headline in a press release issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on March 30, 2007. To ensure complete understanding by consumers and veterinary professionals, Hill’s is […]

Larry Birkhead’s fired lawyer, Debri Opri, has alleged billed her former client over $620,000 for services in the Anna Nicole Smith legal wrangles. The TMZ.com website reported that Opri billed her services out at $475 an hour over 112 pages, including: – A total of three $1,500 monthly charges for Luck Media & Marketing, Opri’s

LawFuel – US Legal News – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kimberly McKinley, Special Agent in Charge, Office of Personnel Management – Office of Inspector General, announced today that defendant Enrique A. Pollack, a/k/a Henry A.

DLA Piper has advised HSBC Bank Plc on its provision of $267 million of senior facilities which were utilised in part to fund the acquisition of V.Holdings Limited by V.Group Acquisitions Limited, both of which are Isle of Man incorporated companies. V.Group Acquisitions Limited was backed by the private equity house, Exponent Private Equity LLP.

LawFuel – Hong Kong: Clifford Chance’s award-winning private equity team has advised special purpose vehicles established by funds advised by CVC Asia Pacific (“CVC”) on the largest announced investment by a private equity fund in a PRC listed company, and separately, on CVC’s first investment in Malaysia. Our Hong Kong and China-based teams advised CVC

Friday 30 March 2007 07-81 Under embargo until 12.01am, Sunday 1 April 2007 LAWFUEL – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a fake investment website on April Fools’ Day to alert investors about the dangers of investment opportunities on the Internet. The site – located at www.electroharvest.com – mirrors the tactics of

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – Patent Law News –The intellectual property law firm Kenyon and Kenyon LLP announced today that its client, Punchgini, Inc., the proprietor of the BUKHARA GRILL restaurant chain, had prevailed on all federal claims at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a major decision regarding the “Famous Marks

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs–Castle, Petersen & Krause, LLP announced today that the City of San Diego, at a March 27, 2007 status conference, requested additional time to prepare to respond to the Plaintiffs’ recently-filed summary judgment motion in the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) lawsuit Abbe, et al. v. City of

A senior Iranian diplomat said legal proceedings had begun against the sailors and Marines for illegally entering Iranian waters but denied reports of a trial. “British leaders should avoid media storms and politicisation to prevent a further complication of the affair,” Iranian media quoted Mottaki as saying. Iran’s ambassador to Moscow, Gholamreza Ansari, told a