Conrad Black, the Canadian newspaper and British Lord goes on trial in Chicago this coming week on fraud and racketeering charges. While similar cases in recent years make the storyline — alleged financial chicanery by a highly placed corporate executive — a familiar one for American audiences, this trial promises to be a dramatic spectacle […]

LAWFUEL – Business & Law – MACH, the leading global clearing and settlement partner for mobile based transactions, has announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire CB Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Cibernet, a leading mobile roaming, clearing and business solutions provider. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval

LawFuel.com – LawFuel’s lead story reports that sex allegations and New Zealand policemen just don’t seem to go away, as the New Zealand Herald reports on new allegations against an Assistant Police Commissioner who has just been discharged on rape allegations. Lawfuel.com – The Net’s best law news network

LawFuel.com – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – Paris Hilton Lawsuit – Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton, has won round two in his court battle with a major Hollywood photo agency that wanted his website PerezHilton.com closed, when a judge ruled that the ‘Gossip Gangstar’ can continue to run his website while the $7.5 million case is

March 9, 2007 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA) – LAWFUEL – Corporate Law – Law Jobs – Kevin Muck, co-chair of Fenwick & West’s Securities Litigation Group, was recently quoted in a Compliance Week story entitled, “Court Rulings Set Stage For Backdating Suits.” The Delaware Chancery Court issued two rulings earlier this month that

LawFuel.com – Google Law Issues – A Microsoft lawyer this week accused Google of “systematically violating copyright” with its plans to scan millions of books and journals from libraries around the world and make them available online. But Google argues its plans are legal. See: LawFuel.com’s lead story

The Federal Government has recently issued three discussion papers on corporate law reform, covering the insider trading laws, the sanctions regime for Corporations Act breaches and ASIC infringement notices for continuous disclosure contraventions. Senior Associate Matthew McLennan and Partners John Warde and Richard Spurio highlight the main issues in each paper. Corporate law reform three

LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ Files – Judge Charged With Flashing On Train – How could he? Could he? Well, one won’t know until all the facts are out, but of this we are certain – Lord Justice Richards, one of Britain’s most senior judges, has absolutely pleaded not guilty to flashing commuters on his rail commute