2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – ASIC has cranked up its unconscionable conduct investigation into National Australia Bank over the bank’s dealings with the Safetli family of Sydney, and the family yesterday signed up with class-action law firm Slater & Gordon. The corporate watchdog, having accused NAB of breaching court orders and making false statutory […]

Washington, D.C., Sept. 5, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today instituted a settled enforcement action against the Boston Stock Exchange and its former president James B. Crofwell for failing to enforce Exchange rules to prevent specialists from trading for their own accounts ahead of marketable customer orders.

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that investment banker RICHARD JOSEPHBERG was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to 50 months’ imprisonment based on his involvement in a scheme to evade payment of a multimillion-dollar tax debt owed by

Wife’s Tips To Husband Net $600,000 LAWFUEL – The US Law Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JENNIFER WANG, 31, and her husband RUBIN CHEN, 34, of Englishtown, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to insider trading charges. The trading

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Martha J. Brosius and Matthew P. Trask have opened their own law firm in New York City, Brosius Trask LLP, a practice focused on elder law, trust and estates and matters associated with these practices. Leaving the Westchester firm of Littman Krooks LLP, founders Brosius and Trask provide

Who: • Workplace Horizons www.workplacehorizons.com is a followup weblog to EFCAUpdates.com which received national media attention and played a key role in keeping some of the nation’s top business leaders informed regarding this hot-button piece of legislation. • Kilpatrick Stockton LLP’s Labor and Employment Team www.kilpatrickstockton.com which publishes the blog, advises and defends many top

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 5, 2007 — Jonathan G. Rose and Sheldon M. Kline have joined the Washington, D.C. office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP as partners in the firm’s Labor and Employment practice group. Rose most recently practiced with Katten Muchin Rosenman in Washington, D.C. and Kline joins the firm from Thelen Reid

Houston, Sept. 4, 2007 — LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Texas law firm Winstead PC has officially relocated the Houston Office to the JPMorgan Chase Tower building at 600 Travis Street. The new location will enable Winstead to enhance service to current and new clients who are expanding their business interests in Houston and

BOCA RATON, Fla.– LAWFUEL – The Legal Marketing Newswire – Legal marketing is a key ingredient for an attorney’s success in today’s competitive legal environment, but it is rarely taught in law school. The art of rainmaking – how to attract and retain clients – remains a mystery to many lawyers at all levels of

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ATTAH EVAN KWASI — a large-scale heroin trafficker extradited from Ghana to the United States — was sentenced on Friday to 262 months’ imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to import kilogram