Relief Includes Officer-and-Director Bar and Over $3 Million in Civil Penalties, Disgorgement, and Prejudgment Interest Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission today settled civil fraud charges against the former General Counsel of Comverse Technology, Inc., William F. Sorin, under an agreement which provides for the payment of over […]

International law firm receives platform to support future development of voice and video services New York, 10 January 2007 – LAWFUEL – Legal Technology & Management News – Lovells, one of the world’s truly few international business law firms, has selected Vanco, the global Virtual Network Operator (VNO) to design, implement and manage its global

TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the arrest of a Duval County man on multiple charges of producing child pornography. Acting on a tip from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), investigators with the Attorney General’s Child Predator CyberCrime Unit discovered James Walker McSpadden’s production of homemade pornographic images of a

Philadelphia, Pa. – January 10, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that Amy B. Ginensky, a leading First Amendment lawyer who also handles class action and commercial litigation matters, will join the firm as a partner in the Philadelphia office on January 16, 2007. “Amy is the preeminent First Amendment lawyer in the

Alliance Dedicated to Recovering Securities Losses of Italian Institutional Investors NEW YORK & VERONA, Italy–LAWFUEL –Labaton Sucharow & Rudoff LLP and leading Italian law firm, Studio Legale Adami, announced today a joint alliance, dedicated to assisting Italian institutional investors to fulfill their fiduciary duties in recovering portfolio losses due to issuer fraud and mismanagement. The

OAKLAND – LAWFUEL – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced today that Jack Easterday, of Alameda, was charged in a superseding information with 62 additional counts, for a total of 109 counts of willful failure to truthfully account for and pay over payroll taxes owed to the government. Mr. Easterday is the owner of

CHICAGO – Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the United States, is pleased to announce that Eric D. Cohen has joined the firm as counsel. Mr. Cohen will focus his intellectual property practice on patent prosecution in the electrical arts, as well as in the areas of

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LawFuel.com lead story: It was a law firm merger that was to never be. The planned merger between Dewey Ballantine and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has been abandoned amid wrangling over management control, ending one of the most anticipated combinations of the year. The firms’ London offices were putting on brave faces in the wake