New York, June 8, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Dechert LLP today announced that Steven J. Molitor, former chair of Morgan Lewis & Bockius’ securitization practice, has joined the firm along with seven former Morgan Lewis securitization lawyers including counsel Joseph V. Gatti and Eric P. Iversen, and five associates. Molitor, who is resident in the […]

DECATUR, Ill., June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Archer Daniels Midland Company announced that it reached a settlement today with the plaintiff class in the federal anti-trust civil suit regarding high fructose corn syrup. Under the terms of the settlement, ADM agreed to pay $400 million to the plaintiff class which is comprised of customers

June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Skadden was ranked as the top corporate law firm in America in Corporate Board Member’s fourth annual survey of “America’s Best Corporate Lawyers,” in which approximately 2,152 directors were polled (July/August 2004). Skadden also ranked first in a separate Corporate Board Member survey in which general counsel chose the

LANSING, Mich., June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Ten Michigan parents owing more than $270,000 in unpaid child support received an unwelcome surprise when they were arrested Tuesday for felony unpaid child support, Attorney General Mike Cox announced today. “Parents have an ultimate responsibility to support their children, especially when they have the means to

LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – A Los Angeles County company that made PVC has agreed to plead guilty to a series of federal felony charges and to pay more than $4 million in civil and criminal penalties and restitution for discharging pollutants from its Saugus manufacturing facility, as well as lying to

NEW YORK, June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL -The law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP announces that a class action lawsuit was filed on June 16, 2004 on behalf of purchasers of the securities of The Shaw Group, Inc. (“Shaw” or the “Company”) (NYSE: SGR) between October 19, 2000 and June 10, 2004,

New York – June 17, 2003 – LAWFUEL – Barry Slotnick, a partner in the New York office of Loeb & Loeb LLP, has been elected President of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (2004-2006). Mr. Slotnick is a litigator who handles significant transactional matters in intellectual property. He has litigated numerous copyright infringement, trademark

BOSTON, June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan today announced that HARVARD UNIVERSITY and BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER (“BIDMC”) have agreed to pay $2,404,270 to settle allegations that false claims were made to the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) in connection with four federal grants. Today’s settlement is in

ST. LOUIS, June 17, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Energizer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ENR) announced that yesterday, June 16, a German Patent Court indicated that it was prepared to deny Gillette’s motion for preliminary injunction against the manufacture and sale of Schick Wilkinson Sword’s (SWS) Quattro(R) and Intuition(R) razors in Germany, based upon the merits of

CHICAGO, June 16, 2004 – LAWFUEL – On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, a Cook County jury returned a verdict of $2,081,600.00 against Defendant James Elliott, a former CEO of a telecommunications company. The Plaintiff, Jerry Slovinski of Naperville, was the CFO of Elliott’s company. At a meeting in July of 1996, Elliott told financial executives