Chicago, 3 June 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Baker & McKenzie announced today that Christine Lagarde, Chairman of the Global Policy Committee, has accepted an invitation to join the Government of France as Minister for Foreign Trade. Mme Lagarde will take up her new role with immediate effect. An accomplished labour […]

PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – David J. Gorberg, Esquire of the lemon law firm of David J. Gorberg & Associates has been named, for the second year in a row, as a 2005 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. In addition to the Super Lawyer award, Mr. Gorberg was also honored

3 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – A former Manhattan Beach man who faked his own death on a boat anchored off the Southern California coast – apparently in order to avoid prosecution on child molestation charges – has been indicted on federal charges of causing the Coast Guard to conduct a

Washington, D.C., June 2, 2005 – LAWFUEL – T he Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed securities fraud charges against Amerindo Investment Advisors, Inc., Alberto William Vilar and Gary Alan Tanaka, Amerindo’s co-founders and principals, for misappropriating at least $5 million from an Amerindo client. Amerindo is a registered investment

3 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The man who ran the Los Angeles office of public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard Inc. was indicted today on federal conspiracy and fraud charges that allege he participated in a scheme to submit hundreds of thousands of dollar worth of fraudulent bills to the Los Angeles

New York, June 2, 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP announces that Cliff Fonstein has joined the firm’s national employment and labor practice as a partner, resident in the firm’s New York office. Mr. Fonstein will focus on labor and employment law and employment class action

4 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Linklaters has elected Martijn Koopal as a partner in its banking practice in The Netherlands. His appointment represents a key further step in the development of Linklaters’ Dutch law capability. Martijn will join Linklaters from DLA SchutGrosheide in Amsterdam, where he is currently head of

Brittny Gastineau, Melanie Lynskey, Jennifer Siebel, Margaret Hema, Patrick Steel, Eva Longoria—even Audrey Hepburn and Dodi Al Fayed—pack out Lucire’s June 2005 number Wellington and Auckland, June 4 (JY&A Media) – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Lucire, the only New Zealand fashion magazine to be publishing in two countries, has called upon its

2 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Brian J. Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced today that defendants, Vanessa G. Faulk, James N. Faulk, and Sheree R. Saunders were sentenced by United States District

(Dallas) – 2 June – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Dallas attorney Rogge Dunn says lawyers win by going by the book, his book. Using his years of legal experience, Mr. Dunn, a name partner in the firm Clouse Dunn Hirsch, has written a new manual to help attorneys entering the important discovery