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NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today that Arthur Steinberg, a high-profile financial restructuring lawyer with 29 years' experience, has joined the firm's New York office. Steinberg is the seventh bankruptcy lawyer the firm has hired in the past 16 months and continues the firm's expansion of its restructuring practice, including the addition of a bankruptcy practice in Houston.

BELLEVUE, WA and RUMSON, NJ (MARKET WIRE) Estorian, Inc., which provides the market-defining LookingGlass interactive message management technology to enable archiving and data loss prevention, today announced a strategic reseller agreement with Commericium technology, Inc. that will deliver LookingGlass to the New York/New Jersey region. CTI helps organizations implement proven IT security, compliance and optimization solutions.

Wells Fargo & Co. has filed a lawsuit adding to the rush of litigation over its proposed $15 billion purchase of Wachovia Corp. The San Francisco banking company (NYSE:WFC) has filed a suit asking a federal judge to toss out CitiGroup Inc.’s claim that that a now-defunct exclusivity agreement barred Wachovia from selling itself to Wells. (WFC) (WB) (C) (WFC)

Secretly recorded conversations detailing an alleged scheme to tamper with a witness was the focus of the government’s case against Lance Poulsen Wednesday.

Robert Felner, the former University of Louisville dean at the center of a federal money-laundering investigation, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Louisville.

Tougher Industries Inc., a Menands contractor and sheet-metal manufacturer, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against its former owners.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Cooley Godward Kronish announced today that Goody's Family Clothing, Inc. (Goody's), a moderately priced family apparel retailer operating 287 stores in 20 states, has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Cooley was counsel to Goody's official committee of unsecured creditors.