NEW YORK – LAWFUEL – US Business and Antitrust Law – Veronica Kayne of the Haynes and Boone, LLP Washington, D.C. office will address the Practising Law Institute’s 46th Annual Advanced Antitrust Seminar Feb. 1 on a potential U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could overturn more than 100 years of antitrust legal precedent. Ms. Kayne […]

ATLANTA (January 18) – LAWFUEL – US Business Law – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today the addition of Bruce Douglas to the firm’s Capital Markets Team. Mr. Douglas is joining the firm’s Atlanta office as Counsel in the Financial Transactions, Real Estate and Restructuring Department. Mr. Douglas brings a wide range of experience in commercial finance

CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – US Legal News Network – Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States, is pleased to announce that 27 of its Chicago attorneys have been named “Illinois Super Lawyers” for 2007 in a survey conducted by Law & Politics magazine. Additionally, Gary

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – US Legal News –The American Civil Liberties Union today announced its support for an effort by AT&T shareholders to force the company to disclose more about its role in the recent National Security Agency (NSA) illegal spying scandal and to tighten its policies to better protect customer privacy. “In an era when

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – American Law News –ALM’s Law Technology News® today announced law firm and in-house law department winners in its fourth annual Law Technology News Awards program. The awards recognize the best technology use – and users – in the legal profession. Awardees in the five law firm categories are: Oz Benamram, Jo Haraf

Lawfuel.com – Saddam Hanging – Video Hanging – The furore over the hanging of Saddam Hussein and his two aides continues in Bagdad as lawyers and human rights groups continue to criticize the bungled executions. Some legal experts are hanging to legal threads themselves in their attacks upon the legality of the executions, recalling the

LAWFUEL – UK Business + Law News – HFW’s Senior Partner, Roderic O’Sullivan, will retire on 30 April 2007, after 36 years as a partner in the firm. Richard Crump will join HFW’s Managing Partner, Greg Gray, and Deputy/International Partner, Marcus Bowman, who have both been re-elected, unopposed, for further terms in office. Roderic has

Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2007 – LAWFUEL – US Business & Law – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Fred Alger Management, Inc. (Alger Management) and Fred Alger & Company, Incorporated (Alger Inc.) will pay $40 million to settle the Commission’s charges that the companies allowed market timing and late trading in the

First Formal Report on NY Judicial Selection by a Minority Bar Group (New York, NY – January 18, 2006) LAWFUEL – The New York Hispanic Bar Task Force on Judicial Selection (the “Task Force”) today issued a report calling on the State of New York to make the existing judicial nominating convention system for the