LAWFUEL – Law News Network – International law firm Eversheds has been granted a licence to open a new office in Shanghai. The announcement marks a new phase in the firm’s expansion into the Chinese market. The new office will be based in the central business district of Puxi, Shanghai. In a major recruitment coup, […]

BOSTON- LAWFUEL – Legal News Daily –Sept. 8, 2006–O’Brien & Levine Court Reporting today announced that it has acquired Liberty Legal Resources, based in Springfield, Mass., broadening its coverage throughout New England and offering attorneys a neutral setting for depositions in the region. The office will take the O’Brien & Levine name. Former owner Jennifer

Washington, D.C., Sept. 8, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Economic Analysis today announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer Marietta-Westberg as a Visiting Academic Scholar for a term ending in August 2007. Before joining the Commission, Dr. Marietta-Westberg served on the faculty of Michigan State University.

PHOENIX – Edward James Driving Hawk, Sr., 71, of Chandler, Arizona, pleaded guilty on September 6, 2006 to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, in federal district court in Phoenix. Driving Hawk had been charged based on his role in a ponzi scheme operated through his company, U.S. Reservation Bank and Trust (“USRBT”). USRBT

LawFuel.com’s lead story from the New York Times reports on a federal judge ordered the former chief executive of WorldCom, Bernie Ebbers, who was convicted of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud, to report to federal prison on Sept. 26 to begin his 25-year sentence. About LawFuel.com LawFuel.com is one of the Net’s largest pure-law

LONDON – LAWFUEL – UK Law & Business – Allen & Overy advised Cable and Wireless plc on its estimated £250 million contract to supply Pipex with access to its unbundled local loop (LLU) network capability. Allen & Overy also advised on the simultaneous disposal of Bulldog’s residential and small business broadband customer base to

LawFuel Class Action News – Plaintiffs From Seven States Bring Suits in New York Alleging Pfizer Failed to Adequately Warn Physicians and Patients About Serious Health Risks Tied to Lipitor; Claimants Include Pharmaceutical Rep, Long-Haul Truck Driver and Former New York State Supreme Court Clerk; Plaintiffs Attribute Peripheral Neuropathy and Memory Loss Among Other Impairments

ATLANTA (SEPTEMBER 8) – Eighty-seven Kilpatrick Stockton attorneys have recently been honored by their peers in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007. Kilpatrick Stockton ranks #5 among all AmLaw 100 firms in the percentage (nearly 20%) of attorneys named Best Lawyers, and is ranked 26th in the nation for all law firms in the overall

Boston, MA, September 5, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Fish & Richardson P.C. has announced that 23 of its attorneys have been named to the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. The Best Lawyers guide is based on a peer-review survey in which thousands of leading attorneys throughout the country

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The ECJ will deliver its judgment on Tuesday 12 September on the validity of the UK’s Controlled Foreign Companies’ (“CFC”) tax rules. These rules impose tax on a UK parent company which has set up a subsidiary in a jurisdiction with a lower rate of tax (less than 75