RICHMOND, Va. – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Chambers & Partners has recognized 24 partners in McGuireWoods’ Richmond office as leading lawyers in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Chambers, which annually publishes a client guide to leading lawyers, interviewed clients and conducted independent peer reviews to highlight the top […]

Wednesday 6 September 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Australia Legal News – Former company secretary of HIH Insurance Limited (HIH), Mr Frederick Lo, has appeared in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney, New South Wales, on four charges arising from an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation. Mr Lo is charged with: •

London, 4 September 2006 – LAWFUEL – London Law News – Fried Frank announced today that Edward Kim has joined the firm as an M&A and securities partner in the London office. Edward specialises in US and non-US M&A transactions (both public and private), corporate restructurings, public offerings, private placements and joint ventures. He joins

TORONTO and OTTAWA (September 5, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Canada Law News – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading full-service business law firms, today announced that Andrée Wylie will be returning to the Blakes Ottawa office in the Firm’s Communications Group. “Andrée has spent her entire professional career in the telecommunications

DALLAS – LAWFUEL – Law Firm News – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP announces that Kenneth Orgeron has joined as the first Chief Information Officer at the firm. He is responsible for all aspects of information resource management and technology in each of the firm’s four offices. Mr. Orgeron joins the firm from Jones Walker LLP,

Team of Attorneys Strengthens Firm’s National Focus on Life Sciences & High-Tech Industries CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today the addition of five attorneys to the Intellectual Property (IP) Department in the Chicago office. The new attorneys are Steve Z. Szczepanski, Mary Jo Boldingh, Katherine L. Tabor,

DALLAS – LAWFUEL – US Legal News – Fish & Richards P.C. has announced that three lawyers from its Dallas office and one from its Austin office have been named to the 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Selected to the from the Dallas office were Paul E. Coggins, Commercial Litigation and White-Collar

LAWFUEL – Australian Law News – The High Court of Australia yesterday dismissed proceedings commenced by former officers of CTC Resources NL (CTC), Mr William Forge, Mr Jozsef Endresz, Mr Allan Endresz and Ms Dawn Endresz. This decision upholds findings in August 2002 that the officers had contravened the directors’ duties and related party provisions

LAWFUEL – Computer Law News – A San Diego man pleaded guilty this afternoon to hacking into a computer system at the University of Southern California and accessing confidential information submitted by students applying to the school. Eric McCarty, 24, pleaded guilty to the felony count in United States District Court in Los Angeles. By

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board (CALDB) has cancelled the registration of Mr Yu Xiong Shang as an auditor, commencing 23 August 2006, following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Shang, formerly of Murrumbeena, Victoria, had his registration cancelled by the CALDB after