LAWFUEL.com – Wellington – 15 March 2007 A number of law firms in the Wellington regions have landed significant payments from the legal aid system, notwithstanding claims that funding of legal aid is insufficient and people are being left unrepresented in Court. By region, Wellington was the biggest-charging region, dominating seven of the top seven […]

LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ Law Scandal – Morrison & Foerster attorney James Brosnahan is cock-a-hoop at the dismissal of charges against the lady from Hewlett Packard. But, the WSJ Law Blog points out, was it all due to his own legal tactics and argument. No, says WSJ Law Blog, it’s ‘the ring’. Let them explain: While

LawFuel.com – See LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ file – If it’s not our favourite comb-over, making a guest appearance evidently at the trial-of-this-part-of-the-century, the Conrad Black show in Chicago. The Don himself is scheduled to give evidence at the trial of the former Daily Telegraph chairman, who renounced his Canadian citizenship so he could enter the

FOSTER CITY, Calif. FOSTER CITY, Calif.–LAWFUEL – Patent Law News –Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (NASDAQ:EFII) the world leader in color digital print servers, superwide format printers and inks, and print management solutions, and its superwide format printer unit VUTEk, recently obtained a sweeping victory in its defense of a patent lawsuit filed by Leggett &

LawFuel.com lead story – The corporate spying case against former Hewlett Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn was dismissed by a California judge today. Former HP ethics chief Kevin Hunsaker and two private investigators will also avoid jail time after their lawyers entered no contest pleas to misdemeanor charges in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Wednesday.

LawFuel.com – Secret hearings at Guantanamo Bay at the weekend resulted in a confession from one of the brains behind the 9/11 terror attacks. The hearings were held as the US military determined whether 14 of the prison’s highest profile inmates should be prosecuted. A transcript released by the Pentagon of the hearing showed that

Lawfuel.com – See LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Files’ – Russian Multi-Billionaire Roman Abramovich’s wife Irina appears to have made a legally-disastrous strategic mistake, by divorcing her husband in the wrong jurisdiction. Honestly, where do these billionaires get their legal advice, anyway? Irina, pissed at having Roman strolling hand-in-hand with 25 year old beauties is now doubly annoyed

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