San Diego, May 20, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Three of San Diego’s leading trial lawyers are joining Morrison & Foerster as partners in the Firm’s San Diego office. Each has over 20 years’ experience in civil litigation, with extensive trial histories that include work on high-profile tort claims, business litigation and real estate disputes in […]

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announced today that 12 of the law firm’s practice areas and 37 of its attorneys are listed among the annual Chambers & Partners guide to America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Independent research conducted by Chambers & Partners recognizes various practice groups and attorneys of the firm for representing a national client-base on critical

Hong Kong – May 19, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Clifford Chance has been named “Best Law Firm” at the FinanceAsia / AsianInvestor Magazine 2004 Achievement Awards ceremony in May at the Island Shangri La Hotel, Hong Kong, an annual event for the Asian funds industry. The award reflects the firm’s outstanding reputation and expertise in

17 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A pharmacist who owned and operated the San Jacinto Pharmacy in San Jacinto has been convicted of distribution of pseudoephedrine with the knowledge or reasonable cause to believe that it would be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Following a three-week trial in United States District Court in Riverside, Jae Gab

May 21, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy is pleased to announce that one of its leading partners, David Mackie CBE QC, has been appointed as a judge. From 30 June 2004, Mackie will serve as a Specialist Mercantile Circuit Judge at the Central London Civil Justice Centre. He has been a partner with

May 11, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Allen & Overy has advised the mandated lead arrangers ABN AMRO Bank N.V. and BNP Paribas S.A. on the provision of a US$300 million borrowing base acquisition facility to Tullow Oil plc to part finance its acquisition of Energy Africa Limited. Energy Africa Limited is quoted on the South

May 21, 2004, San Francisco, CA- LAWFUEL -Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (K&L) is pleased to announce that Christopher O.B. Wright has joined as a partner in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Intellectual Property practice groups. Wright was a partner at Cooley Godward LLP in Palo Alto, California from 1997 to 2004. His prior experience includes

20 May 2004 – LAWFUEL – A man currently serving a 12½-year sentence for impersonating a physician was sentenced this morning to an additional 120 months in federal prison for posing as a doctor after escaping from prison in 2000. Gerald Barnes, 70, was sentenced on his fifth conviction of impersonating a doctor. The 10-year

May 20, 2004 – LAWFUEL – Stikeman Elliott LLP, which has a thriving cross-border practice, is the only Canadian law firm recognized in American Lawyer’s newly-released 2003 Mergers & Acquisitions rankings. Stikeman Elliott LLP claimed its position as the only recognized law firm in Canada listed among the United States’ leading M&A law firms by

ATLANTA (May 18) — Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announced today that the 2004-2005 edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers, was named “Leading Georgia Firm for Intellectual Property.” Kilpatrick Stockton is referred to as “at the top of the game” with its “strong caliber” of attorneys who have established an “uncommonly large and sophisticated” practice.