Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announces a new signature project in conjunction with BellSouth, Atlanta Legal Aid and Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF): The Security Deposit Project. In this program, lawyers will represent low income tenants in seeking the return of deposits unlawfully withheld by landlords. “Low income tenants, many of whom scrape together a month’s worth […]

Financial News Awards for Corporate Excellence Europe 2004 Sullivan + Cromwell LLP represents the underwriters. “Vivendi Universal’s $1.3bn (€1bn) dual currency bond was hailed as the deal that kick-started the European high-yield debt market in 2003. . . . The French media and entertainment group’s deal, which comprised dollar and euro tranches, marked its first

Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP successfully represented Earth Resource Mapping, Inc., an Australian company, in a patent dispute against LizardTech, Inc. before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The firm received the order on Thursday, March 18. Chief Judge Coughenour granted Earth Resource Mapping’s motions for summary judgment of invalidity

Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $22.5 million to resolve allegations that one of its facilities improperly billed Medicare for millions of dollars for referrals provided by doctors with whom the hospital had prohibited financial arrangements, the Justice Department announced today. The settlement also resolves the government’s allegations that the North

Baker & McKenzie’s Hong Kong office, in conjunction with more than 10 other Asian, European and US Baker & McKenzie offices, recently advised Macquarie Bank Limited (“Macquarie”) on its acquisition of Asian equities business of the ING Group (“ING”). A sale and purchase agreement was entered into between Macquarie and ING on 8 March 2004.

The Converging Technologies Bar Association (CTBA), the first bar association in the world that addresses the legal, policy, regulatory and societal impact of converging technologies in the 21st century, today announced the appointment of several new advisory board members and a new honorary member. The CTBA announced that Jonathan L. Bing, assembly member for the

Bronx, NY – March 25, 2004 – Today the New York State Appellate Division upheld a lower court award of $560,000 to a girl who suffered multiple broken bones due to a defective stairway in a Bronx apartment building. Carol L. Schlitt, who served as trial counsel on behalf of the Law Offices of Samuel

Herbert Smith advises GPG (UK) Holdings plc on its partial cash offer for De Vere Group Plc Herbert Smith is advising GPG (UK) Holdings plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of long-standing client Guinness Peat Group plc, on its partial offer for 28.5 million shares in De Vere, the hotels and leisure group. This represents approximately 25

R. Hewitt Pate, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, issued the following statement today after the European Commission announced its order that Microsoft disclose certain information to competitors, offer for sale a version of its Windows Operating System that does not contain the Windows Media Player, and pay a fine of 497 million euros (about $613

Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP has named twelve attorneys as partners, counsel and of counsel. Named to the partnership were former associates Michael J. Delaney, Charles A. Luband, and Eric P. Schroeder and former Counsel, Brad Alexander Baldwin, Wendy L. Hagenau, and Donna Marie Rodney. Associates Ronni Solomon Abramson, Joshua Berman, Matthew P. Holley,