ALTRINCHAM, England, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Legal 500 recommended law firm Dunham Law http://www.dunhamlaw.co.uk today announced the deployment of Aquarium Software's case management solution. After a detailed evaluation process, Aquarium was selected to support Dunham Law's new venture prosecuting financial mis-selling claims http://www.ncsclaims.co.uk.

Dunham Law has an established track record as an innovative and entrepreneurial organisation and this latest service offering will further enhance the range of services provided to its clients. Adrian Richings, responsible for business development at Dunham Law, commented:

PHILADELPHIA, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPGY) announces that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Natco Pharma Limited (Natco) for infringement of two of Shire's patents: U.S. Patent No. 5,968,976 ('976 Patent); and U.S. Patent No. 7,381,428 ('428 Patent);

The lawsuit was filed in response to an ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Application) filed by Natco seeking FDA approval to market and sell generic versions of Shire's 500 mg, 750 mg, and 1 g FOSRENOL(R) (Lanthanum Carbonate) products.

BROOMFIELD, Colorado, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- Enhanced Services Expand High-Speed Bandwidth Options in North America and Europe

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT) today announced new optical wavelength service capabilities. The enhancements are a direct response to growing customer demand for flexible, cost-effective, high-bandwidth optical networks for both enterprise and wholesale applications.

TORONTO, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- REDKNEE'S CUSTOMER CARE SOLUTION ADDRESSES REAL MARKET NEEDS AND ATTRACTS INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

Redknee (TSX: RKN), a leading provider of mission-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, is pleased to announce that its customer care solution, Redknee One Call Resolution, has been nominated for the Best Practices for Supplier and Service Integrator category at the TM Forum Excellence Awards. Voting is now open for TM Forum members to determine the winners which will be announced at Management World 2009.

LUCCA, Italy, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) a Reporting Standard Embraced by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC and Other Regulatory Bodies Around the World.)

CTIA Wireless, LAS VEGAS, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) announced its Rich Communications Manager, which delivers the next generation of unified rich messaging through a single web portal - providing enhanced messaging and communications to fixed, mobile, and IP devices - has been selected as this year's Most Innovative Mobile Application at the Andrew Seybold Choice Awards.

CERGY, France, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- As in the previous two years, SPIE achieved good results in 2008. The growth in revenues to nearly EUR3.8 billion and the increase in operating income from ordinary activities (EBIT) to EUR172.9 million attest to the solidity and effectiveness of our development model. This was achieved despite the deteriorated financial environment in the second half. The year ended also saw acquisitions remain at a high level with EUR200 million in annual production.

In 2008 there was also continuous improvement in our financial structure with negative working capital requirements for the third consecutive year generating excellent cash flow to self-finance our growth.

COPENHAGEN, April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuevolution A/S today announced that Merck Co. Inc. has chosen to proceed to the second phase of the collaboration agreement announced in June 2008 to apply Nuevolution's proprietary Chemetics(R) drug discovery technology to identify novel small molecule leads against several drug targets.

By entering the second phase, Merck gains access to a new multi-million member proprietary library of small molecule drug candidates. In addition, this development triggers the payment of an undisclosed technology access fee to Nuevolution from Merck.

LUXEMBOURG, April 2 /PRNewswire/ --

- MACH Positioned for Growth With Global HR Leadership

MACH today announced the appointment of Dea-Anne D'Amico as Vice President Global Human Resources and member of MACH's Executive Team, reporting to MACH CEO, Guy Dubois.

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In this role, Ms D'Amico will lead all aspects of MACH's Human Resources organization worldwide, as well as global executive and employee communications. As a member of the company's worldwide leadership team, she will help set global strategic direction for the business spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.