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.

OAKLAND – LAWFUEL – Crime News, Law Jobs – Larry Gene Elmore, 50, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of transporting child pornography, United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced. According to court documents, Mr. Elmore chatted in an Internet chat room frequented by persons interested in

NASHVILLE, Tenn.– LAWFUEL – US litigation –Direct General Corporation (Nasdaq: DRCT) today announced that it entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with other defendants and the plaintiffs to settle a consolidated class action pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division, entitled In re Direct General Corporation Sec.

HOUSTON, March, 2007 LAWFUEL – Energy Business + Law – King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, represented Ashmore Energy International (AEI) in an agreement to sell its 51 percent indirect stake in Bahía Las Minas Corp. (BLM), a Panamanian generation company, to France’s Suez Energy International. As part of the transaction, Suez is

LAWFUEL – US Business + Law – Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Oracle Corporation on its acquisition of Hyperion Solutions Corporation. Hyperion is a leading global provider of performance management software solutions. Oracle is the world’s largest enterprise software company. According to the terms of the transaction, Oracle will acquire Hyperion through a cash

The Anna Nicole Legal Roadshow To Hit The Road Soon At A Town Near You LawFuel.com – See ‘Hot Gossip’ – The Anna Nicole Legal Roadshow will be hitting the road again shortly, according to insiders who report that former Anna Nicole lover Larry Birkhead is getting tired of being strong armed by also-former Anna

The Online Marketplace Where Owners of Intellectual Property Can Buy, Sell and Build Interest for Their Inventions and Patents PALO ALTO, Calif.–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –LegalForce (www.legalforce.com), a Palo Alto based startup, today launched the web’s largest IP marketplace. The user-friendly site showcases a powerful set of features, offering a single online destination

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.–LAWFUEL – Litigation News, Law Jobs –Following the first phase of a two-plaintiff, two-phased trial that the Court itself described as “something new,” a state court jury in Atlantic City, N.J., today found that Merck & Co., Inc. did not fail to provide an adequate warning to prescribing physicians about an increased risk