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Gingrich will be an official 2012 presidential candidate next week, rep says
Monday, May 2nd, 2011ATLANTA — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will have officially entered the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination by next Friday, his spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Wednesday.
“By the time Newt speaks to the Georgia convention, he’ll be a candidate,” spokesman Rick Tyler told the paper, referring to the state Republicans’ annual meeting to be held in Macon, Ga., on Friday, May 13.
Gingrich, 67, will not be participating Thursday in the first 2012 Republican presidential debate, sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Party and hosted by FOX News Channel.
When asked why, his spokesman told the Journal-Constitution, “We decided to stick to our time line.”
Entry requirements for the debate insisted on a declaration of candidacy that the former Speaker was not prepared to make, he added.
Gingrich, who represented Georgia’s 6th congressional district for two decades, had hinted at an event in Philadelphia last Thursday that he would make a decision about entering the 2012 Republican race this week.
“I would just say to folks who are really curious: Watch Facebook and Twitter in the next week,” Gingrich said.
Names of suspended officers in fatal crash are released
Wednesday, April 20th, 2011The four Milwaukee police officers suspended for failure to fully investigate the hit-and-run crash that killed Navy veteran Nicholas Rozanski last fall are Daniel Boeck, Eric Fjeld, Sean McCord and Troy Stofflet, according to internal affairs records.
Britney M. Wilkinson, 24, of Milwaukee, the driver of the car that collided with Rozanski’s moped, was allowed to plead no contest to two misdemeanors because Assistant District Attorney Mark Williams feared the substandard police work would make it difficult to prove a felony at trial.
Pannone prepares for post-LSA world with white-label arm
Monday, April 18th, 2011Pannone is set to launch a white-label division to capitalise on the new opportunities that will arise when the Legal Services Act (LSA) comes into full force.
Affinity Solutions will launch on 1 May and will partner with companies from a number of industries including retailers, financial services, utilities and insurers to offer their customers own-label legal services.
Pannone’s travel litigation head Andrew Morton heads the 85-strong Affinity team, which is made up mostly of paralegals and will provide a range of legal services including employment advice, consumer disputes, fast-track injury claims, conveyancing and remortgaging.
“It’s a problem a lot of law firms face, being approached by organisations that want to provide legal services to an existing customer base,” said Morton. “So we’
Man peeved at amount of executive’s Medicare fraud award
Thursday, April 14th, 2011- Share
Whistleblower complains that executive received larger share
By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
Everyone hates Medicare fraud, but few regular folks can do much about it.
Matthew Snorek did. It took more than five years of persistence and patience, but it paid off big last week.
Snorek’s conscience started an investigation that saw the founder of Dr.
Driver who struck 2 outside club gets 13 years
Sunday, April 10th, 2011- Share
By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel
A Milwaukee man who ran down two people outside a downtown night club last year, killing one and injuring the other, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Steven Deshawn Shaw, 26, will also serve eight years of extended supervision upon release, according to the sentence imposed Friday by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kevin Martens.
According to the complaint, Shaw swerved his SUV into pedestrians outside of 311 E.
Gowlings adds Unilever IP lawyer to London team
Friday, April 8th, 2011Canadian firm Gowlings has hired Unilever’s former vice-president legal and global anti-counterfeiting counsel for its London office.
Richard Heath joins Gowlings’ London office as a senior policy adviser in intellectual property, bringing with him expertise in providing strategic advice to blue-chip companies and governments on anti-counterfeiting and brand protection.
Heath will work alongside IP counsel James Tumbridge and will liaise with Gowlings’ offices in Moscow and Canada.
Scott Jolliffe, chair and CEO of Gowlings, said: “Richard’s experience at the highest level in developing and implementing intellectual property policy & strategy – both locally and globally – will be of immense value to our clients in Europe and around the world.”
Heath started working at Unilever in 1992 and left in 2010, briefly working as an independent consultant before joining Gowlings.