London, Dubai – DLA Piper has appointed Al-Harith Sinclair to head its regional financial regulatory practice based in Dubai. Al joins DLA Piper from Pinsent Masons’ London office where has was also a partner. Al has relocated to the Dubai office in order to build the regulatory practice as part of the firm’s ongoing expansion […]

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – Law News Network –Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP (“Lerach Coughlin”) (http://www.lerachlaw.com/cases/toa/) today announced that a class action lawsuit has been commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida on behalf of purchasers of Technical Olympic USA, Inc. (“Technical Olympic” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TOA) common

BOSTON– LAWFUEL – Law News Network –Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., a full-service, 450-lawyer AmLaw 100 firm with offices throughout the U.S. and in the U.K., announced that it represented CVS Corporation (NYSE: CVS), the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, in an historic $1.3 billion sale leaseback transaction – the largest retail sale

Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Commission is adopting an extension proposed in August to further postpone the date by which smaller public companies must comply with the internal control reporting requirements mandated by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Previously, non-accelerated filers (companies that do

PARIS – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Hervé Kensicher, a leading global finance and real estate attorney, has joined Orrick as a partner in the firm’s Global Real Estate practice in Paris. Kensicher joins Orrick from Freshfields, where he was a partner. “Real estate

BOSTON, Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following are the prepared remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the District of Massachusetts’ Annual Project Safe Neighborhood Conference (1 of 2): Thank you, Mike Sullivan, and good morning everyone. It’s always a pleasure to come back to Boston, an area I knew as home when

STANFORD, Calif.- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –Remember when, in the second half of 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court was the subject of intense media scrutiny surrounding the impending retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist? Journalists and political analysts alike debated the impact that these two vacancies

DUBLIN, Ireland- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47124) has announced the addition of Laws Practical Wisdom to their offering. This book develops a sociological understanding of law making in the European Union. In particular, the book focuses on the social function of law in new governance structures promoting decentralized and flexible procedures

Friday 15 December 2006 LAWFUEL – Australia Legal News, Law Jobs – Victoria Police have executed warrants obtained by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for the arrest of two former Melbourne-based directors previously banned by the Supreme Court of Victoria for misappropriating client funds. Shaun and Nicole White of Eltham,Victoria, face charges relating