STAMFORD, Conn.- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –U.S. tort costs totaled $261 billion in 2005, which is approximately $880 per person and $4 less per person than in 2004, according to the 2006 Update on U.S. Tort Cost Trends from the Tillinghast business of Towers Perrin. The growth rate of tort costs in 2005 was

AKRON, Ohio– LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –The regional accounting firm of Bober, Markey, Fedorovich & Company has hired Leif Erickson, CPA, MT, as Tax Manager. Erickson joins BMF&C with more than six years of experience with public accounting and financial services firms. His experience includes review and compliance of federal, state and local

TUCSON, Ariz. – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Rodolfo Alonso Cano, aka SAM, 33, of Chihuahua, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins on December 12, 2006, to 180 months imprisonment for his plea of guilty to Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine, Cocaine, and Marijuana, and

NEW YORK– 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., is pleased to announce that the firm served as special bond counsel to the New York Yankees in connection with a stadium financing transaction that

(December 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.) – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Steptoe & Johnson LLP, a top tier international law firm, announces the addition of The Scott Group to its Washington, D.C., office, effective immediately. This premiere group includes eight accomplished attorneys and professionals with extensive experience working with clients on legislative and regulatory

Holland & Knight announced today that 27 of the firm’s lawyers in the Boston office have been selected as Massachusetts Super Lawyers for 2006. Super Lawyers names Massachusett’s top lawyers as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics magazine. The list of 2006 Massachusetts Super Lawyers is based on

DALLAS – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – David Epstein, a bankruptcy law professor at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as Of Counsel and will be working out of the Dallas office one day a week. Mr. Epstein is a recognized authority on bankruptcy who has written

Wednesday 13 December 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has intervened in an application brought by Sovereign Capital Limited (Sovereign) to wind up the Sovereign Prudential Fund. Sovereign brought an urgent application to obtain orders from the Supreme Court of Queensland to allow Sovereign to wind up

SAN FRANCISCO- LAWFUEL – Legal News Network –The Honorable David W. Abbott of the Sacramento Superior Court granted final approval today to a class action settlement resolving claims regarding pricing and collection practices for uninsured patients at all of Sutter Health’s affiliate hospitals. As part of the settlement, Class members will be entitled to make