U.S. District Court Awards $20 Million for Illegal Creation and Sales of Unauthorized Star Wars Products SAN FRANCISCO- LAWFUEL – Law News Network –The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has awarded Lucasfilm Ltd. $20 million in damages in a copyright infringement and unfair competition case against the British firm Shepperton Design […]

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. & NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa.–LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Are law firms starting to get it when it comes to managing client relationships? Yes, according to the 2006 Chief Legal Officer Survey. The annual survey conducted by Altman Weil, Inc. and LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell® reports a dramatic decrease in Chief Legal Officer (CLO)

LAWFUEL – US Law News – Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and the Attorneys General of 38 states have entered into a settlement that ends the sale of candy, fruit and alcohol flavored cigarettes manufactured and sold by the company. Under the settlement, Reynolds agreed to a ban in

Largest exchangeable or convertible issue out of Asia ex-Japan this year Singapore – The Singapore office of international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Khazanah Nasional Berhad (“Khazanah”) as obligor, and the special purpose issuer Rafflesia Capital Limited on the groundbreaking issue of US$750 million of Shariah-compliant exchangeable trust certificates (sukuk). Khazanah is the investment

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Pirelli & C. Real Estate SpA on its acquisition of the DGAG Deutsche Grundvermögen AG property company for approximately €440m from HSH N Real Estate AG and majority shareholder B&L Immobilien AG. DGAG’s property assets of over 20,000 residential properties and stakes in commercial

LAWFUEL – US Law & Law Jobs News – Troy A. Eid, United States Attorney for the District of Colorado, Richard C. Powers, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Denver Office, and Gerald Whitman, Chief of the Denver Police Department, announced that JOSEPH MARTIN RAEL, age 53, of Littleton, Colorado, was

Anna Nicole Smith’s lead attorney in the Bahamas said Wednesday he has withdrawn as counsel for the reality TV star, citing disagreements on matters of strategy and concerns about her conduct, reported in USA Today and in LawFuel.com’s Hot Files column.

9 October 2006 – LAWFUEL – US Law News – The attorneys and staff at Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP offer our best wishes to Chicago Partner Javier Rubinstein as he begins his new position as Global General Counsel of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Rubinstein began his career with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in 1989

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in San Diego sentenced Susan E. O’Brien, a professional tax preparer who operated The O’Brien Group, to 10 years and five months in prison. As part of the sentence, she will also serve a three-year term of supervised release and pay restitution in the amount of $113,179. Judge M. James

New award for Lovells’ Anchovy online brand protection service 11 October 2006 UK For further information Alex Caish Contact LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Lovells’ innovative use of technology has been recognised with a major professional services award for the firm’s global online brand management and protection service, Anchovy. The Managing Partners’ Forum