WASHINGTON, DC (December 4) — Kilpatrick Stockton announced today the addition of John Howell as Deputy Director for Government Affairs within the Government Relations practice group. Mr. Howell brings nearly two decades of government experience to the firm’s Washington, DC office. “John represents the firm’s dedication to continuing to build its expertise and ability to […]

TORONTO, Dec. 3 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Thomson Financial data today accredits McCarthy Tétrault with 101 announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A)deals – 28 more than the firm’s closest competitor. This is the first time that a law firm has been given credit for over 100 announced Canadian M&A deals in one

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce members of the firm’s Securities Litigation Practice Group authored Practicing Law Institute’s (PLI) new Securities Litigation: A Practitioner’s Guide. The entire book was written by the firm’s securities litigation attorneys and thoroughly examines every aspect of securities class action

Friday 1 December 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Mr Jeffrey Lucy, Chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), announced that Mr Antony (Tony) Boulden, a former Financial Controller of the Corporate and Professional Insurance Division of FAI General Insurance Company Limited (FAIG), was today sentenced to imprisonment for a term

Monday 4 December 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained injunctions in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to stop a managed investment scheme involving approximately $11 million. The action against New Zealand company, Risqy Limited, and its Queensland based directors, Messrs Leslie George Whitford

Is it a coup already? That’s one question posed by action already taken by Fiji’s military and comments made in a TV interview by Commander Frank Bainimarama that the Army should “find ways” to make the Prime Minister resign. Read LawFuel.com’s lead story from Fiji and other law news.

LAWFUEL.com’s Hot Files – Telling all about J Lo is bound to be a bodice- and bottom-ripping yarn and it’s already something that has the actress/songster’s latin blood boiling. Her first husband, the waiter Ojani Noa, told a judge last week that he’s going to fight her attempts to stop publication, notwithstanding his June agreement

ATLANTA–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network –Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP announces the opening of the new Elbert P. Tuttle Courtroom, located in the firm’s Atlanta office. The state-of-the-art courtroom, complete with a jury box, judges’ chambers and jury rooms, will give Sutherland’s lawyers and clients a competitive edge, including the opportunity to refine