TALLAHASSEE – LAWFUEL – Attorney General Bill McCollum was sworn into office today as Florida’s 36th Attorney General. McCollum, a native Floridian, joined Governor Charlie Crist, Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Commissioner of Agriculture Charles Bronson at today’s inaugural ceremony in Tallahassee, where the members of the new state Cabinet assumed the responsibilities of […]

Former Assistant U. S. Attorney’s Trial, Investigation, and Auditing Experience Adds Depth to Firm’s Litigation Practices LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Jaime Guerrero has joined its Los Angeles office as senior counsel and a member of the Litigation Department and the White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance Practice.

Former Hogan & Hartson Partner to lead McGuireWoods’ Japan Practice LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – McGuireWoods LLP continues to grow its Los Angeles presence through the addition of lawyers from the Los Angeles and Pasadena office of Jenkens & Gilchrist and a partner from Hogan & Hartson. Jenkens & Gilchrist’s Los Angeles and Pasadena offices’

NORTH CAROLINA (January 2) – LAWFUEL – Kilpatrick Stockton LLP continues its leadership in the legal arena with 22 attorneys earning recognition as Business North Carolina’s “Legal Elite.” To determine the winners, ballots were sent to more than 18,000 lawyers from the North Carolina State Bar to nominate the best lawyers in 14 practice specialties.

LAWFUEL.COM – Saddam Hanging Video Scandal – It appears the Iraqi regime is none-too-happy with the way their former dictator met his maker. Reports indicate that the government has launched an enquiry into how guards were able to film and taunt Saddam Hussein at the gallows, thus turning the private party into an event leading

Lawfuel.com’s lead story reports on Chief Justice John Roberts’ claims that the US Supreme Court is in a state of constitutional crisis over judicial pay rates.

Lawfuel – US Law, Legal Jobs – The 54th Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer, was sworn in midnight taking over for George Pataki. The ceremony was private and took place inside the govenor’s mansion. A public ceremony is scheduled for the afternoon of January 1, 2007. Eliot Laurence Spitzer ( born June 10, 1959

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs — Donovan Searles, LLC announces that the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has confirmed a jury’s verdict against Kia Motors America, Inc. in the amount of $5,641,200 on behalf of a class of 9,402 Pennsylvania consumers. The verdict was rendered in May 2005 following a two-week

Lawfuel.com’s lead story carried the American Lawyer’s top young litigators, with biographies of the group of high-impact young lawyers.