WASHINGTON, DC (March 5) – LAWFUEL – Law Firm – Government Relations + Law – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today the addition of three high-profile professionals to its fast-growing Government Relations Practice. Arch Galloway, Michael Rishling and Tara Chapman have joined the firm’s Washington, DC office. “Arch, Michael and Tara bring over 60 years of defense, […]

LAWFUEL – UK Law News – The Cambridge office opens its doors 18 months after Charles Russell opened its Oxford office, making it the only legal practice in the country with offices in both Oxford and Cambridge, two university cities renowned as centres of excellence in both business and research. The primary focus of the

Lawfuel – Law Deals – Law Jobs – Lovells acted for Mizuho and UBS in financing a partnership investment by global private equity firms Vestar Capital Partners and The Carlyle Group in AZ Electronic Materials. Subject to regulatory approvals, the acquisition is expected to close by the end of March. AZ was previously acquired by

LawFuel.com – See ‘Hot Gossip’ on LawFuel.com The Washington Post’s profile – if that’s not too fine a word – of Howard K Stern, the lover/lawyer to Anna Nicole Smith paints the picture of a none-too-compelling figure who landed a major role in the abbreviated life of his client/lover. Probing the condundrum of Howard K

KANSAS CITY, Mo.–LAWFUEL – Law News –Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy (NYSE: GXP), announced yesterday that it filed in Federal District Court in Kansas City, Mo. for a declaratory judgment that the operation of KCP&L’s Iatan 1 power plant has been in compliance with the Federal Clean Air

Monday 5 March 2007 LAWFUEL – Australia Law – Mr David Christopher Novak, also known as David Jovcevski, of Richmond, NSW, was convicted and sentenced in the Sydney Central Local Court on Wednesday 28 February 2007 to nine months imprisonment for his failure to comply with the conditions of a recognizance order following a conviction

LawFuel.com lead story from ‘The Times’ – Britain’s highest-paid woman, who paid herself £15.9 million in 2004, is embroiled in a bitter legal battle with two former workers that threatens to lay bare the secretive world of hedge funds.

LawJobsCenter.Blog – Law Jobs, Legal Careers – LawJobsCenter.blog reports: The moves by Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw to purge 45 partners demonstrates the new urgency and economics in running a profitable law practice. The purge of almost 10 per cent of the Chicago partners – almost Stalinist in scope – is unprecedented, particularly given the

LawFuel.com – Lead Story – The arrest of a prominent Greenwich attorney on charges of destroying evidence in a child pornography investigation is raising alarm bells that a law targeting corporate accounting schemes could be used to prosecute lawyers over work done on their clients’ behalf.