2007

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – LOS ANGELES – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested six foreign nationals with ties to violent street gangs in the Southland during the past week, the latest actions in an ongoing ICE operation that has resulted in the arrest of 124 gang members in the last three […]

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – PHOENIX – Christopher Johns, 22, of Bapchule, Ariz., was sentenced on June 4 to 240 months in prison by U.S.District Judge David G. Campbell. Johns had pleaded guilty on March 7 to Kidnapping and Aggravated Assault. Johns was one of two men who in March 2006 car-jacked and kidnapped

Lawfuel – The Law Newswire – SANTA ANA, California — The fifth member of a Southern California family who conspired to export United States defense articles to the People’s Republic of China has pleaded guilty to acting as an agent of the PRC. Rebecca Laiwah Chiu, 63, of Downey, pleaded guilty late Tuesday night to

Shareholder Nancy A. Mitchell Moves to New York Office NEW YORK, June 06, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today that Nancy A. Mitchell, a shareholder in the firm’s Chicago office, has moved to the firm’s New York office where she will serve as the new Chair of

Chicago, IL, June 6, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Baker & McKenzie LLP announced today that Robert W. Tarun joined the Investigations and Business Crimes practice of the Firm’s North American Litigation Practice Group as Partner in its San Francisco and Chicago offices. Tarun was a partner at Latham & Watkins

ST. LOUIS – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Bryan Cave LLP announced today the opening of an office in Hamburg, Germany. The office is expected to be open and operating by Aug. 1. This follows the May 17 announcement that Bryan Cave is opening an office in Milan, Italy. The Hamburg office will be

LOS ANGELES, June 6 LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire — On May 31, 2007, Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP filed an ERISA class action in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Fremont General Corporation (“Fremont”). The lawsuit seeks class action status on behalf of participants in two of Fremont’s

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Two law firms are heading a $600-million class action lawsuit against CIBC, alleging the bank has failed to pay front-line employees for extra work, CTV.ca reports. The Canadian firms, Roy Elliott Kim O’Connor LLP and Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP, announced the lawsuit today, saying the action covers thousands of

LAWFUEL – The Business Law Newswire – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Deutsche Bank, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Morgan Stanley and one other bank, acting as joint global coordinators and bookrunners, in connection with European real estate company IMMOEAST AG’s capital increase worth €2.835bn. This marks the largest equity capital markets transaction carried out by a

LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Jones Day has just assisted SAP, the world’s leading provider of business software, in acquiring OutlookSoft Corporation, a privately held provider of integrated planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation software targeted at CFOs. SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration,