Seattle, Wash., May 23, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, (WDTL) the leading Pacific Northwest defense bar association, announced the appointment of Kristin Baldwin to the position of Executive Director. Baldwin comes with over 16 years of experience in non-profit management, specifically in the legal community and has worked for the King County […]

May 23, 2004 – London – LAWFUEL – ContractStore.com has become the first legal services firm in the UK to advertise on London taxis. A fleet of black cabs have had ContractStore.com adverts painted on their sides and will be seen on the streets of the Capital from the end of the week. The adverts,

San Francisco – May 22 – LAWFUEL – The president, CEO and founder of the San Francisco-based LegalMatch.Com was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana for illegally listening to and deleting his competitor’s voice mails and then making false statements to the FBI about his illegal conduct. Dmitri Shubov, 31, of

May 22, 2004 – London – LAWFUEL -The Court of Appeal today gave a unanimous judgment allowing the appeal of Staines publican Bernie Crehan in his epic ‘ David and Goliath ‘ battle against Inntrepreneur Pub Company (CPC) and awarded him substantial damages for loss suffered from a breach of the EU competition rules. This

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2004 – LAWFUEL – The Department of Justice announced today that Mariusz Chomicz, the President of a caviar company in Poland, pled guilty and was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in a caviar smuggling conspiracy. The conspiracy ring used paid couriers to smuggle suitcases filled with caviar

May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy is advising Celltech Group plc, the leading UK-based biotechnology company, on the £1.53 billion recommended offer by Belgian company UCB S.A., announced today. The 550 pence per share cash deal will create a bio-pharmaceutical leader in Europe, and one of the largest biopharmaceutical companies in the

Top lawyers from four jurisdictions make world top-ranking list Lawyers who made the “Law Star” list for 2004 have been named by online publisher, LawFuel. Among the 15 nominees announced by the law news website are New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and sacked Michael Jackson attorney Mark Geragos. The LawFuel list of legal stars

TORONTO – May 19, 2004- LAWFUEL – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading full-service business law firms, today announced that John Orange and Santosh Chari will be joining the Blakes Intellectual Property Group in Toronto. “John and Santosh are very well-known in the intellectual property field,” said Jim Christie, the Firm’s

May 18, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Stikeman Elliott LLP is pleased to announce that Donald H. Bunker has joined the firm’s Montreal office as Counsel. Recognized as an international aircraft finance and aviation lawyer with experience acting for financiers, lessors and purchasers of aircraft around the world, Don joins the firm from Dubai, where he

May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donald J. Balberchak, Special Agent in Charge of the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, and Jesus Torres, Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today that a federal grand jury