2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – LawFuel’s lead story reports that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig moved to undo his guilty plea to a sex-related charge by filing a motion Monday saying that he was in a “state of fear” and worried about “unnecessary publicity” this summer when he signed the plea. The motion, filed in […]

LAWFUEL – The UK Legal Newswire – Hextalls, the City law firm, has promoted Julian Cox to Head of its Employment Law team. Julian has over ten years’ experience as an employment law specialist gained both In House and in private practice. He replaces Jane Liddington who had been Head of Employment at Hextalls since

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Long-time opponent of the Serious Fraud Office, Winston Peters, had another dig at the SFO over their lacklustre record, as the Government announce the creation of a new Organised Crime Agency. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has welcomed the creation of the Organised Crime Agency, announced by the

WASHINGTON, D.C., September 11, 2007 — LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that prominent international arbitration attorney Mark Clodfelter has joined the firm’s Washington, D.C. office as of counsel. Clodfelter will focus his practice on international arbitration, including investor-State arbitration. Clodfelter is returning to private practice after serving for

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announced that defendant, Frederick Bradley Nowell, Sr., aka “Brad Nowell,” was sentenced this morning to 84 months in prison based on

Washington, D.C., Sept. 11, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission will hold its annual Forum on Small Business Capital Formation on Monday, Sept. 24, 2007, beginning at 9:00 a.m., Eastern, at the Commission’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. This year’s small business forum will focus on recent SEC rule proposals

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – In the Auckland District Court yesterday Carrerabenz Diamond Industries Limited pleaded guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act after it misled customers over the valuation prices of its jewellery. The Auckland company, the principals of which live in Queensland, was convicted of 21 breaches of the Act and fined

PHOENIX – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A convicted sex offender who fled the United States while under investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been arrested by the Australian Federal Police and is now awaiting extradition. Howard Wesley Cotterman, 66, of Truckee, Calif., was indicted by a federal grand jury in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – While several of his 2008 rivals spent the sixth anniversary of 9/11 in congressional panels debating the future of U.S. involvement in Iraq, Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Republican presidential candidate, declared at a policy forum that the United States has “dug a hole for [itself]” in Iraq. Paul described