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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – New York – July 9, 2007 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is advising the executors of the estate of Norman E. Alexander and certain entities owned or controlled by them, owners of approximately 54% of the voting power of the Sequa Corporation (“Sequa”), in the execution of a definitive

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – July 9, 2007 – Holland & Knight LLP is pleased to announce the addition of three lawyers in the Tallahassee office. The firm’s Florida Government Advocacy Practice is significantly expanded with the additions of Frederick R. Dudley and Mia L. McKown. In addition, Gigi Rollini joins

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – LOS ANGELES – David J. Bershad, formerly a name partner in the New York law firm now known as Milberg Weiss & Bershad LLP, has agreed to plead guilty this afternoon to a federal conspiracy charge and acknowledge that he and others agreed to conceal from judges in state

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Washington, D.C., July 9, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed securities fraud charges against two Texas individuals in a high-tech scam that hijacked personal computers nationwide to disseminate millions of spam emails and cheat investors out of more than $4.6 million. The scheme involved the use

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Washington, D.C., July 9, 2007 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it commenced the distribution of the Fair Fund created as part of a settlement with Time Warner Inc. on charges of improper financial reporting and disclosure. The distribution is expected to be completed in approximately

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – New York, July 9, 2007 – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today issued a new standard for determining issues of arbitrator bias, in Applied Industrial Materials Corp. v. Ovalar Makine Ticaret ve Sanayi, A.S., No. 06-3297-cv (decision attached hereto and available at http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov:8080/isysnative/RDpcT3BpbnNcT1BOXDA2LTMyOTctY3Zfb3BuLnBkZg==/06-3297-cv_opn.pdf#xml=http://10.213.23.111:8080/isysquery/irl1541/1/hilite ). The

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – HARTFORD, Conn.– The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – HARTFORD, Conn. — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of

Milberg Weiss ex-partner David Bershad agreed to plead guilty to charges related to a scheme to pay illegal kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities lawsuits, federal prosecutors said. Bershad, 67, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy, the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said today. He’ll forfeit $7.75 million, pay a $250,000 fine and

Legal action to secure equal pay for women in the public sector is being launched by Wales’ largest trade union. Unison, which represents more than 95,000 members in Wales, 65% of them female, said its campaign was on behalf of thousands of underpaid women. It said local councils had not stuck to the April 2007