BOCA RATON, FL—November 1, 2006— LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Al Arent, Arent Fox’s guiding force for many years, passed away peacefully in his sleep October 31, 2006, with his children at his side. “There is no way to adequately describe Al or to fully describe the debt that we all owe him,” […]

LawFuel.com – Legal News and Legal Jobs – Malta’s Independent newspaper reports that Adriano Padula, who will be 73 in January, and who has been a senior magistrate in Cremona since 2003 and before that was a magistrate in Parma, has been transferred and has lost six months of his seniority after, among other things,

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Davis Polk & Wardwell is advising Morgan Stanley on its acquisition of a 19% stake in Lansdowne Partners, a London-based hedge fund. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Lansdowne, founded by Paul Ruddock and Steven Heinz in 1998, has over $12 billion in assets under management

LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs – The Firm represented J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in connection with a $2.187 billion equity backstop commitment for Owens Corning provided by J.P. Morgan and a syndicate of investors. The commitment backstopped a rights offering conducted during Owens Corning’s chapter 11 case and enabled Owens Corning to emerge from

Monday 06 November 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Home loan lenders One Direct and MyRate have revised their advertising for variable home loan rates after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) raised concerns that their promotional material may have been misleading. Between July and September 2006, One Direct and MyRate advertised

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Leading international specialist supplier to the construction and building industry, SIG plc, has been advised by Pinsent Masons on its acquisition of new corporate headquarters at Sheffield Business Park. The new building will comprise approximately 20,110 square feet of space, with completion of construction due to take

Intellectual property has long referred to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets, but the term is used more expansively today to include industrial designs, product packaging, integrated circuit mask works, “know-how,” domain names, rights of publicity, biological materials, databases, moral rights — and the list keeps growing. Every business owns some intellectual property. A company’s

By Nick Beckett Law-Now, CMS Camerson McKenna LAWFUEL – Law News Network – On Friday, 27 October 2006 the Court of Appeal delivered its eagerly anticipated judgment in the Aerotel and Macrossan cases. These cases centred upon the patentability of business methods and computer programs. The Court of Appeal held that the correct approach to

Friday 03 November 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Mr Paul Drakos, of the Central Coast in New South Wales, was today jailed following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into the former financial planner. The District Court of New South Wales imposed a eight year sentence on Mr Drakos with a

The goal of the “What About Clients?” 12 rules is outrageous client service–but the 12 Rules’ way of getting there is to align the interests of clients/customers and service providers. They were derived from the “How To Practice Law” section of our firm’s Practice Guide, written for associates and paralegals in 2000. The rules, like