24 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Freehills announced today the appointment of seven new partners, effective from 1 July 2005. In making the announcement, Freehills Chief Executive Officer, Gavin Bell, said he was pleased and proud to welcome a group of fine men and women to the firms partnership. At Freehills, […]

24 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The United States Attorney’s Office announced that a federal grand jury in San Jose today indicted Emmett Jones, 35, of Falls Church, Virginia, and Carr Johnson, 35, of Woodbridge, Virginia in connection with a scheme to steal computer servers from a Virginia-based Verisign Inc. warehouse

SAN FRANCISCO – 23 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that yesterday, federal agents with assistance from local law enforcement conducted searches of over 25 locations and made 15 arrests1 in connection with an indictment returned last week and unsealed today. The indictment charges 19 individuals

(Angleton, Texas) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Six days after the Indianapolis-based Guidant Corporation recalled 29,000 defibrillators under pressure from the federal Food and Drug Administration, a Plano, Texas, man is suing the company. 58-year-old Larry Hardin claims Guidant sold the older version even though the company had fixed the problem in

MIAMI, June 24 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network — The Supreme Court of the United States, in an opinion authored by Justice Kennedy, affirmed the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in the Exxon dealer “Discount for Cash” class action, Allapattah Servs. Inc. et al. v. Exxon, Case No. 04-70. The Court found

23 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Eversheds has announced its association with leading German firm HEISSE KURSAWE. The agreement is a major step in the continuing development of Eversheds’ international capability and establishes the firm in the key market of Germany. The firm will continue to be named HEISSE KURSAWE, but

Minneapolis, MN (June 2, 2005)—LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Dorsey & Whitney LLP is the top corporate law firm in Minneapolis for 2005, according to Corporate Board Member magazine. This is the fourth consecutive year that Dorsey has been the top vote-getter in the magazine’s annual Legal Industry Research Study. The survey polled

23 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Keith Perniciaro, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced today that defendant, Suresh Bobby Gopaul, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Kenneth A. Marra

WASHINGTON, D.C. – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today awarded more than $13 million in grants to fund Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task forces nationwide. The ICAC program encourages communities to develop regional, state or multi-state, jurisdictional, and agency responses to technology-facilitated sexual

23 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has advised ING Group, the global financial institution of Dutch origin, in relation to the sale of the wealth business of ING Securities Bank (France), consisting of ING Ferri and ING Private Banking, to Barclays Bank PLC. ING Group went public on the agreement