| Thelen Restructures U.K. Joint Venture
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner and U.K. law firm Pinsent Masons are taking the wrecking ball to the global construction law joint venture they built in 2003. The firms announced last week that they're reconstructing their relationship into a less firmly cemented "best friends" bond, and said they will work together on a wider assortment of legal matters. Stephen O'Neal, Thelen's co-chairman, cast the change in a positive light. "We achieved the branding goal," O'Neal said. "We have firmly established between the two of us ... the go-to shops for construction law." The joint venture, Masons Thelen Reid, was launched with great fanfare four years ago. Both firms crowed that the U.K. limited liability partnership would pool resources, manage international clients and target new ones.
FAA Announces Changes to Make Restricted Airspace Over National Capital Region More Safe and ...
To make it safer and easier for pilots to navigate over National Capital Region, FAA is modifying restricted airspace. Circular 30-nautical-mile-radius restricted area eliminates mouse ears shape of Air Defense Identification Zone and allows pilots to use single navigational aid instead of 4 in use today. Going into effect on Aug 30, 2007, change will free 33 airports and helipads from current restrictions in approximately 1,800 sq miles of airspace. .
Fen-phen lawyers are jailed
COVINGTON - Lawyers Shirley Cunningham Jr. and William Gallion went from the winner's circle of the Preakness three months ago to a Boone County jail cell Friday. A federal judge threw the co-owners of the horse that captured the second leg of the Triple Crown in jail after they asked for a delay in their trial on charges that they defrauded their clients out of $65 million. A co-defendant in the case, fellow lawyer Melbourne Mills Jr., was also jailed. .
People: Fats Domino, J. K. Rowling, Amy Winehouse
Twenty of Fats Domino's gold records lost or destroyed during Hurricane Katrina have been reproduced and were presented to the 79-year-old Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer at a nightclub in the French Quarter of New Orleans this week. Domino was all smiles, saying repeatedly "thank you, thank you" to a crowd of about 100 friends and family. Also present were some of New Orleans's most noted musicians, including Irma Thomas, Charmaine Neville and Deacon John. Among the gold-plated records Domino lost when Katrina flooded his home on Aug. 29, 2005, were "Going to the River," "Blue Monday," "Blueberry Hill" and "I Want to Walk You Home." It took months for historians to track down some of Domino's original 78-RPM recordings, which were dripped in gold before being printed with Domino's name and album titles.
Innovations Agency Pick Puzzling
When the governor of Virginia selected a new secretary of technology last year, he chose 33-year-old Aneesh Chopra, a Harvard-educated whiz-kid investment banker and expert in health care technology.
Just the appointment made a loud statement about where Virginia is headed.
So what are we to think about Gov. Rell's appointment of Edward M. Bowman, "a former owner of Village Oil Co." in Cheshire as chairman of the board of Connecticut Innovations Inc., a quasi-public state agency that invested $11 million in new technology companies last year? The investments, often in complex technologies, are intended to create new jobs.
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POLICE CALLS
Criminal complaints from police beats in Wichita. Missing dates indicate days where no reports were filed. Beat 11 Burglary 909 N. St. Paul, Calvary Apostolic Church, Aug. 1. Drug offense 900 block of W. Kellogg, July 31. McLean Blvd. and Seneca, July 31. Larceny 3932 W. 13th, Dillons, July 30. Vandalism 1000 block of N. St. Paul, July 27. 900 block of Porter, July 27. 1000 block of N. McLean Blvd., July 29. 400 block of N. Martinson, July 31. Beat 12 Aggravated assault 2200 block of W. Caroline, man, 46, July 30. McLean Blvd. and Elizabeth, man, 53, Aug.
Lana Clarkson's Mother Testifies About Shopping Trip
The night before she died at Phil Spector's mansion, actress Lana Clarkson went shopping with her mother and bought seven new pairs of shoes, according to testimony prosecutors used to counter defense claims that Clarkson was depressed about her future and suicidal. Clarkson's mother, Donna, was called to the witness stand Monday by defense lawyers to identify letters found in her daughter's home. But she surprised the courtroom when she revealed the shopping trip when cross-examined by prosecutors -- and turned the tables on the defense. On Tuesday, the trial was to resume with testimony from defense expert and famed forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden. Spector, 67, a legendary music producer whose "Wall of Sound" technique revolutionized rock music, is charged with murdering Lana Clarkson, who was working as a hostess at the House of Blues nightclub the night they met.
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