2007

TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced the sentencing of a North Carolina attorney to 15 years in prison after he pled guilty to charges of promoting the sexual performance of a child, lewd or lascivious exhibition and sexually soliciting a child over the internet. Bradley Lamb […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Whether you are in business for yourself or part of a bigger firm, you need to look at your practice as if it were your own business – certainly if you’re a partner it is, and as an associate it’s not too early to treat it as such. Accordingly,

LAWFUEL – The Law Newsline – The Commerce Commission will be holding a series of conferences in September and October to seek clarification on aspects of the submissions made on recent draft determinations and investigations. “The conferences are an important part of the Commission’s information gathering process. The Commission is currently working on a wide

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Former financial adviser, Mr Matthew David Leech, now of Mathoura, New South Wales, today pleaded guilty in the Melbourne County Court to 19 fraud-related charges that were laid following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Leech pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and

UK Legal Newswire A milestone in the development of London’s policing was achieved yesterday. As part of the Met’s biggest change programme, handling of the Capital’s 999 and non-999 calls to the police has been transferred from 32 separate Borough control rooms to three purpose built sites. For the last two years, the management of

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire September 18, 2007 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA) – Fenwick & West LLP represented Northern California Real Estate Exchange (NCREX) in its recently announced acquisition of MLS (multiple listing systems) providers RE InfoLink and the MLS assets of the Central Valley Association of Realtors. With the acquisitions, RE

“Law Newswire” R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; David Bourne, Special Agent in Charge, Food and Drug Administration, Office of Criminal Investigation; Michael E.Yasofsky, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation; and Enrique Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service announce today that on

“Law Newswire” NEW YORK – September 18, 2007 –Holland & Knight LLP is pleased to announce that the firm received a rating of 100 – the highest possible rating – in the Human Rights Campaign’s sixth annual Corporate Equality Index. The Corporate Equality Index, which this year rates 519 businesses, measures the extent to which

“Law Newswire” DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FILES COMPLAINT AGAINST TENET’S FORMER GENERAL COUNSEL The government has filed a complaint alleging that the former general counsel of Tenet Healthcare Corporation violated the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. The suit contends that in 1997 and 1998, Christi Sulzbach submitted false certifications to the Department of

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Federal Court of Australia, in Melbourne, today declared that Ross Investments (Aust) Pty Ltd contravened the Corporations Act by sending unsolicited offers to purchase Cambridge Credit Corporation Limited (Cambridge) debentures to holders of those debentures. The Court also declared that by causing the Cambridge offer documents to be