2007

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Paris Hilton has put not only her short-term jail stay behind her, but also Aa $10-million defamation suit filed in Santa Monica against her by a woman who claimed Hilton lied to the press about a run-in the two had over a man at a London nightclub has been

NEW YORK– LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP today filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, District of New Mexico, on behalf of all persons who purchased the common stock of Thornburg Mortgage, Inc. (“TMI” or the “Company”) (NYSE:TMA) between October 6, 2005 and

CLEVELAND– LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – For the third year in a row, Thompson Hine LLP has been ranked among the top 40 firms nationally in The American Lawyer’s annual job satisfaction survey of midlevel associates. Among the Am Law Second Hundred Firms, Thompson Hine ranks 16th nationally. In the market-by-market analysis, the

LAWFUEL – See Hot Files – It’s A-List profiling gone mad. Oprah Winfrey, Condi Rice, and Colin Powell are among a host of A-list celebs who were just subpoenaed in a racial profiling case in a Michigan Federal Court. TMZ report on the court’s “command” that a spectacular list of celebrities appear for depositions in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – American Home Mortgage Holdings Inc. has “started to get bombarded” with demands from its lenders that it hand over home loans it’s servicing, an attorney for the company said Monday, the Chicago Tribune reports. Meanwhile, Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation’s largest mortgage lender, sought to reassure customers that the

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released a consultation paper on proposals to improve disclosure to retail investors in the $8billion unlisted and unrated debenture market. The improved disclosure measures (for consultation) are based on an ‘if not, why not’ basis of reporting. That is, issuers would

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The London and the New York office of Clifford Chance LLP have advised Channel Capital PLC (Channel), the first credit derivative product company (CDPC) in Europe. CDPCs are triple-A rated investment vehicles that take credit risk through credit default swaps and earn a leveraged return on their capital. CDPCs

Washington, D.C., Aug. 22, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of the Chief Accountant has selected three professional accounting fellows for two-year terms beginning this fall: Adam Brown, currently a senior manager in BDO Seidman LLP’s National SEC Department based in Dallas, Texas; Robert G. Fox III, currently

Miami-Dade man stole more than $2.1 million in sales tax from proceeds at car dealerships in Lee and Miami-Dade counties ~ TALLAHASSEE, FL – Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Miami-Dade County man was sentenced to 17 months in prison after pleading guilty to criminal charges of stealing state sales tax and grand