Peter Crystal, One of ILN's Founding Members Steps Down as Managing Partner - Thanks for the Memories
Memery Crystal LLP, London
Memery Crystal senior partner Peter Crystal has stepped down after almost 30 years in the role, with the firm appointing a new executive board in his place.
The members of the management committee took up their new roles on 1 May, when Crystal’s term as senior partner officially ended.
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2007 Annual Meeting
New York, New York
On behalf of the International Lawyers Network and Epstein, Becker & Green, Lowell Lifschultz addressed the invited guests, delegates and companions at the 2007 Annual Meeting Gala Dinner on Ellis Island.
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ILN Sponsors Law Firm Management Conference in Singapore
Singapore - November 29 - 30, 2007
On November 29-30, the Asia Business Forum will bring its Law Firm Management conference to Singapore, with a session on Ethics and Law Firm Governance by ILN Board Member, See Kiat Toh.
Leading experts in the Asia Pacific region will gather to participate in this program to help attendees to maximize the profitability of their law firm, improve client relationships through enhanced knowledge management, stay ahead of the competition with better people and process, and network with the managers of Asia’s leading law firms.
Take advantage of this opportunity by clicking on the icon below to register.
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Shutts & Bowen Partner Sidney C. Calloway to Receive Urban League of Broward County Humanitarian Award
Shutts & Bowen LLP, Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — July 26, 2007 — The Urban League of Broward County (ULBC) has selected Fort Lauderdale attorney .jpg?i=091707122433) Sidney C. Calloway, a partner in the Government Law Practice Group of Shutts & Bowen LLP, as the recipient of the 2007 Margaret Roach Humanitarian Award for inspiring change and demonstrating ongoing leadership in the advancement of social justice and race relations.
Calloway, an accomplished litigator, mentor to aspiring young attorneys, and champion of minorities, will be honored at the 2007 Equal Opportunity Day (EOD) Awards Dinner to be held in late September. The awards dinner is one of Broward’s premier special events, attracting a multi-cultural and diverse mix of the county’s community and corporate leaders.
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Gerson Lehrman Group - ILN Member Testimonials
“Testimonials from ILN members who have consulted with Gerson Lehrman Group clients. They are part of our large network of experts that educate our clients on various topics.”
I have greatly enjoyed my relationship with GLG. It has offered me an opportunity to meet several new contacts in the gaming area and has resulted in a number of very good relationships.
By Paul West
McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC
Our experience with the GLG Law council has been great so far. Also, once you get all of the applications through internet, it has been enriched, since the matters where we have participated have been matters in which we have been involved in a certain way.
By Luis Lavalle
Martínez, Algaba, Estrella,
De Haro & Galván-Duque, S.C.
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Taking a match to Fortress Europe?
Fladgate Fielder, London
by Eddie Powell
Earlier this year the Court of Appeal for England and Wales held that the parallel importation of Cuban cigars did not amount to trademark infringement even though the importer could not demonstrate express consent to the import. This is believed to be the first time the ‘inferred consent’ defence has been run successfully in the United Kingdom. Is this a cause for concern for brand owners?
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Twenty-Nine Howard Rice Attorneys Named 2007 Super Lawyers
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA — July 17, 2007 — Twenty-nine Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin attorneys, representing 14 different practice areas, have been selected as 2007 Northern California Super Lawyers. In addition, after three years as a Top 100 Super Lawyer, Jerome Falk was recognized as one of the Top 10 Super Lawyers in Northern California for the first year.
Representing the top five percent of attorneys in the state, Super Lawyers are nominated by their peers and chosen based on extensive research that considers peer recognition and professional achievement.
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Google V's Belgium Press - No News for Free
Vanden Eynde & Partners – Belgium
by Julie Feld
On July 4 2007, Google filed an appeal against a judgement pronounced in Belgium in February 2007 which had heavily condemned the most important internet company worldwide.
Given the fact that Belgian copyright law is mainly based on European directives and is therefore substantively similar to the others European Union member states copyright law, a decision of the Court of Appeal of Brussels could set an important precedent for how web search engines and on-line news providers link to copyright law, specially in the European Union.
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WolfBlock Secures Largest Award for a Wrongful Conviction in U.S History; More Than $100 Million in Damages Issued
WolfBlock, Philadelphia
Philadelphia -- August 9, 2007-- WolfBlock is pleased to announce that Litigation Partner Juliane Balliro has achieved a successful verdict on behalf of plaintiffs Peter Limone and his family and the Estates of Henry and Jeanette Tameleo in a civil suit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court in Boston awarded damages of $101.7 million to be paid by the federal government for the wrongful convictions and nearly four-decades of false imprisonment of Balliro's clients, as well as Joseph Salvati, The Estate of Louis Greco and their families.
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Private Equity: Australian Senate Committee delivers report
Gadens Lawyers, Sydney
by Andrew Lind and Zmarak Zhouand
Private Equity: Senate Committee delivers report – no need for further legislation On 20 August 2007, the Senate Standing Committee on Economics ('Committee') delivered its report on the effects of private equity on capital markets and the Australian economy.
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The European Company in France: Two Years On
Lefèvre Pelletier & Associés, Paris
by Roland Montfort / Véronique Deau
It is now two years since the Breton law No. 2005-842 of 26 July 2005 introduced into French law the European Company Statute (“ECS”) created by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001 and Directive 2001/86/EC of 8 October 2001.
This law was supplemented by decree 2006-448 of 14 April 2006 concerning the “company law” aspect of the ECS and decree 2006-1630 of 9 November 2006 concerning the involvement of employees of the ECS.
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AIM – the US Connection
Memery Crystal LLP, London
by Greg Scott
Greg Scott, Head of Corporate, at Memery Crystal LLP in London talks about his recent trip to Houston, Texas to explain the merits of the AIM market to US domestic oil and gas companies.
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Cross Border Mergers in Italy Pending the Implementation of the Directive 2005/56/EC
Corrado, Ferrari, Mainieri, Pedeferri Law Firm, Rome
by Carmine Gravina
After more than 20 years, on October 26, 2005, the European Parliament and the Council finally approved the Directive 2005/56/EC on cross-border mergers of limited liability companies.
The Directive has introduced a uniform and simplified procedure in order to pursue cross-border mergers between limited liability companies incorporated under the laws of a Member State and having their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the Community, provided that at least two of them are governed by the laws of different Member States.
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(Draft) Communication and Cooperation (‘CoCo’) Guidelines for Cross-border EU insolvency-proceedings
Udink & De Jong, The Hague
by Willem van Nielen
Last year in Bucharest, the European insolvency practitioners association, INSOL Europe, held their annual congress. During that congress Professor Bob Wessels of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Professor Miguel Virgós of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid presented their Public Draft of September 2006 on the non-binding European Communication and Cooperation Guidelines for Cross-border Insolvency proceedings, also known as the ‘CoCo-guidelines’.
With their presentation in Bucharest Bob Wessels and Miquel Virgos were seeking to test the draft rules against the experience of the INSOL Europe practitioners. Insol Europe’s Secretary General, Marc Udink, who initiated this project for Insol Europe, during the Bucharest Congress appointed a Committee Best Practices to further develop the CoCo guidelines. As secretary of this CoCo-project, I would like to inform the members of ILN and their clients of the importants of the CoCo guidelines for a better and faster cross border recovery.
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