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K-Rod to appear in Queens court in assault case

Posted on October 07, 2010
New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez is due in court to face charges that he assaulted his girlfriend's father and then violated a restraining order stemming from the incident.Rodriguez is accused of grabbing 53-year-old Carlos Pena after an Aug. 11 game at Citi Field and hitting him in the face...

Lawyer in Whitman flap mum on details, party ties

Posted on October 06, 2010
Republican Meg Whitman's former maid said Tuesday she's not a Democratic pawn in California's race for governor, but her attorney refused again to provide key details about her claims that Whitman employed her for nearly a decade despite knowing she was in the U...

Proskauer Elects Its Youngest-Ever Chair

Posted on October 06, 2010
A quick house-keeping note for those obsessed followers of law firm personnel changes: Proskauer Rose has elected Joseph Leccese to replace Allen Fagin as chairman, according to the New York Law Journal, one of our sibling publications. Leccese, 49, is the youngest elected chair in the 135-year history of the firm, the NYLJ says...

Johnson & Johnson buying Crucell for $2.41 billion

Posted on October 06, 2010
Johnson & Johnson said Wednesday it is buying Crucell N.V. for about $2.41 billion in a move that will boost the American health care company's vaccine business.The move had been expected since September, when the companies announced they were in advanced talks...

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Geithner presses China on currency reform

Posted on October 06, 2010
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner stepped up pressure on China to make more progress in moving toward flexible exchange rates.Geithner said Wednesday that it is particularly important to see appreciation in countries where the currency is significantly undervalued...

How Long Will It Take Kerviel to Repay $6.7 Billion?

Posted on October 06, 2010
The man who nearly took down the French banking system is on the hook for millennia.J�r�me Kerviel, the low-level trader whose rogue bets cost Soci�t� G�n�rale ?4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) in early 2008, was convicted today by a French court and ordered to repay the bank's losses...

Ex-French trader must pay $6.7 billion for fraud

Posted on October 05, 2010
Ex-trader Jerome Kerviel was convicted on all counts Tuesday in history's biggest rogue trading scandal, sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to pay his former employer a mind-numbing euro4.9 billion ($6.7 billion) in damages.The ruling marked a huge victory for Societe Generale SA, one of France's most blue-blooded banks, which has worked to clean up its image and put in place tougher risk controls since the scandal broke in 2008...

Some states charge poor for public defenders

Posted on October 05, 2010
States increasingly are imposing fees on poor criminal defendants who use public defenders even when they can't pay, causing some to go without attorneys, according to two reviews of the nation's largest state criminal justice systems. A report out Monday by New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice found that 13 of the 15 states with the largest prison populations imposed some charge, including application fees, for access to counsel...

DANIEL BURKE SELECTED FOR LEADERSHIP CLAYTON

Posted on October 05, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale lawyer Daniel J. Burke has been selected for the 2010-2011 class of Leadership Clayton, a development program sponsored by the Clayton Chamber of Commerce. A total of fifteen individuals have been accepted into this year?s program.An attorney at the firm since 2006, Burke concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate development, banking and financial services, and public finance...

Law Firms Orrick and Akin Gump End Merger Talks

Posted on October 05, 2010
The big law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has seen its share of merger discussions fizzle out in recent years. Add its talks with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to the list.Less than a week after confirming that they were in preliminary discussions to merge, Orrick and Akin Gump released a joint statement Monday morning announcing that their brief flirtation has already petered out...

Stocks surge after upbeat US data as dollar slides

Posted on October 05, 2010
Global stock markets surged Tuesday after a better than expected U.S. economic survey gave a big boost to investor sentiment, which had earlier been buoyed by the Bank of Japan's surprise decision to ease monetary policy further.Rising expectations that the U...

Reed Smith considering merger with Texas firm

Posted on October 04, 2010
Pittsburgh-based Reed Smith, which has 150 lawyers in Philadelphia, is in early merger discussions with Dallas-based law firm Thompson & Knight, both firms confirmed Friday to the Pittsburgh Business Times."We are in preliminary merger discussions with Texas-based Thompson & Knight," said Reed Smith Managing Partner Greg Jordan in an e-mail...

Armstrong Teasdale LLP New Associate Announcement

Posted on October 04, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale LLP announces the addition of attorney Angie Fletcher as an associate in the St. Louis office. Fletcher is a member of the Corporate Services practice group and focuses primarily on securities, corporate governance, and commercial and general business law...

Court won't hear appeal from Adelphia founders

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a father and son who built Adelphia Communications into a cable television powerhouse and were convicted of fraud after it collapsed into bankruptcy.The high court refused on Monday to hear an appeal from John and Timothy Rigas...

New Supreme Court term opens with Kagan aboard

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Supreme Court is starting its new term with a new justice, Elena Kagan, and bad news for hundreds of parties trying to get their cases heard at the nation's highest court.The justices are expected to start work Monday by denying many of the nearly 2,000 appeals that piled up in recent months...

Court won't get into battle between 2 USCs

Posted on October 04, 2010
The Supreme Court won't decide who really owns the initials "SC" when it comes to college sports: the University of Southern California or the University of South Carolina.The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from South Carolina, which wanted to trademark a baseball cap logo with the initials "SC...

Court strikes down parts of Ohio milk labels rule

Posted on October 01, 2010
Dairy processors can make claims that their products are free of a synthetic growth hormone, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in striking down parts of the state's rule on milk labeling.Key parts of the state's labeling rule violated First Amendment rights to commercial free speech, a three-judge panel of 6th U...

California calls off murderer's execution

Posted on October 01, 2010
The execution of a convicted rapist-murderer in California has been called off after rulings in state and federal courts, officials said Wednesday.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation removed Albert Greenwood Brown's execution from its calendar on Wednesday, a few hours after the California Supreme Court denied the state's request to proceed with the scheduled execution on Thursday night...

Panasonic, Whirlpool subsidiary to plead guilty

Posted on October 01, 2010
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic Corp. and a subsidiary of Michigan-based appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. have agreed to plead guilty and pay more than $140 million in criminal fines for their roles in an international price-fixing scheme, the U.S...

Court hears appeal in 'West Memphis Three' case

Posted on October 01, 2010
Justices on the Arkansas Supreme Court sharply questioned the state attorney general's office Thursday, asking what damage could be done if a judge examined evidence that allegedly exonerates an inmate sentenced to death for killing three Cub Scouts in 1993...

Israeli court rejects Nobel laureate's appeal

Posted on October 01, 2010
An Israeli court has rejected an Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate's appeal against her deportation orders over entering Israel while being banned from the country.Mairead Corrigan Maguire was detained at an airport lockup earlier this week for violating the conditions of her ban imposed in June, when she tried to reach Gaza aboard a blockade-busting ship...

Frederick R. Anderson will be honored with the 2010 ABA Award

Posted on September 30, 2010
Frederick R. Anderson, a lawyer with the Washington, D.C., office of McKenna, Long, and Aldridge LLP, will be honored with the 2010 American Bar Association Award for Excellence in Environmental, Energy, and Resources Stewardship from the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources...

Chicago bomb suspect to appear in court

Posted on September 30, 2010
A 22-year-old Lebanese immigrant accused of placing a backpack he thought contained a bomb near Chicago's Wrigley Field this month is set to appear in federal court.Sami Samir Hassoun was charged last week with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and an explosive device...

Court hears appeal in 'West Memphis Three' case

Posted on September 30, 2010
A lawyer for one of the three men convicted of killing three 8-year-old Cub Scouts in West Memphis told the Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday that new scientific evidence in the case merits reopening his client's case.Damien Echols has maintained his innocence since his arrest in the 1993 killings...

Armstrong Teasdale Joins AmerenUE?s Pure Power Program

Posted on September 30, 2010
Armstrong Teasdale LLP is supporting the development of new renewable energy sources by purchasing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) through AmerenUE?s Pure Power program.Armstrong Teasdale?s commitment to this voluntary program will help prevent approximately 132,996 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2), a leading greenhouse gas, from entering the atmosphere each year...

High court looks at military funeral protests

Posted on September 30, 2010
One thing Al Snyder wants to make clear: His boy fought and died for freedom in Iraq, but not for the right of some "wackos" to spew hate at soldiers' funerals under the protection of the Constitution."It's an insult to myself, my family and the veterans to say this is what our military men and women died for," Snyder says, barely concealing his anger...

Apple brings Nokia patent battle to UK courts

Posted on September 29, 2010
According to a statement from Nokia on Wednesday, "Apple's action is an unsurprising development, which seems designed to put pressure on the ongoing dialogue between both companies". It is not yet clear which patents are the subject of the suit.Nokia was the first aggressor in the legal war, having sued Apple over the iPhone manufacturer's use of GSM, 3G and Wi-Fi patents in October 2009...

Pa. woman to plead guilty in Boston bridal scam

Posted on September 29, 2010
A Pittsburgh woman has agreed to plead guilty to allegations she defrauded advertisers and exhibitors out of thousands of dollars with a fake bridal show in Boston.Federal prosecutors say Karen Tucker on Tuesday agreed to waive indictment on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in exchange for a lenient sentence of up to nearly five years in jail...

Woman due in Washington court in acid hoax case

Posted on September 29, 2010
The Washington state woman who falsely claimed a stranger threw acid in her face is due in court in what will be her first public appearance since she held a hospital press conference nearly a month ago with her head swathed in bandages.Bethany Storro of Vancouver is expected to plead not guilty Wednesday to three theft charges...

Law firm could face �500,000 fine over data breach

Posted on September 29, 2010
The London law firm could face a fine of up to 500,000 pounds by the Information Commissioner over data breach.The law firm has been accused of breaching with personal details of more than 8000 Sky broadband customers, 400 Plusnet customers and 500 Britons...

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