2007

GRAND JUNCTION – LAWFUEL- The Law News Wire – A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada has returned a five count indictment charging three people with committing federal crimes in connection with a fraudulent “high yield investment scheme.” The indictment filed on April 24, 2007, in Las Vegas also contains four forfeiture allegations that […]

The judge presiding over the trial of Conrad Black has told his lawyers to stop him from talking to the media, according to a report. In a story published Friday, the National Post reported that prosecutors had complained to Judge Amy St. Eve after Black gave a series of interviews outside the Chicago court last

LAWFUEL – The Lawyer reports that the launch party for the UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on Wednesday night had a few notable absentees – namely judges. Not one member of the judiciary attended the reception at the new MoJ office in Victoria Street, London – the former home of the defunct Department for Constitutional

LawFuel – Law News Wire – The judge in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial ruled on Wednesday that famed criminologist Henry Lee recovered possible evidence from the crime scene that he hid from prosecutors. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler, who made the finding after convening a special six-day hearing into accusations of evidence-tampering

Police involved in the search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann say they arre looking for a white male between the ages of 35 and 40, who was seen possibly carrying a little girl on May 3 in Praia da Luz, Portugal, being the date and place where Madeleine went missing. Gerry and Kate McCann,

Betonsports has pleaded guilty to racketeering charges and agreed to co-operate in the US government’s case against founder Gary Kaplan and British former chief executive David Carruthers, federal prosecutors said on Thursday, the Financial Times reports. The London-listed online gambling company accepted that it had committed “repeated mail and wire fraud, operated an illegal gambling

SANTA MONICA, May 25, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Wire – Paul Tauger and Patricia Wyrod have joined the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP as counsel in the firm’s Santa Monica office. Wyrod joins Bryan Cave from her own firm in Silicon Valley and Tauger comes from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis

Media Advisory WHAT: “Today’s World of P3” – a program featuring cutting-edge insights into the inner-workings of Public Private Partnerships (P3s). The program will feature an interactive panel dialogue between leading P3 partners, offering both public and private “partnership perspectives.” WHY: Southeastern North Carolina has become a premier “test tube” for utilization of Public Private

ATLANTA (May 25) — Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that Partner Lorraine M. Brennan will be a featured speaker at Fordham Law School’s Second Annual Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation, which is being held June 18-19, in New York City. The annual meeting brings together expert international practitioners (both in-house and outside counsel), academicians, and