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Washington, D.C., May 10, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Jobs & Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Jennifer Xujia Wang, an employee of Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., and her husband, Ruben Chen a.k.a. Ruopian Chen, a former employee of ING Investment Management Services, LLC, with insider trading. In an

Thursday 10 May 2007 LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – ASIC Releases Annual Assessment of Australian Securities Exchange – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released its annual assessment of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX Limited). ASIC Chairman, Mr Jeffrey Lucy, said the assessment again confirms that the ASX has the necessary measures

WARWICK, R.I.– LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire –ID theft is the fastest-growing crime in America. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) statistics estimate that almost ten million Americans were victims of some sort of identity theft last year, and also, that Hispanics are more likely to be victimized by ID theft than other ethnic group. Surprisingly, the

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Class counsel announced that homeowners in Minnesota today filed a class action lawsuit against Carrier Corporation, the manufacturer of Carrier high efficiency condensing furnaces. The homeowners allege that, beginning in 1989, Carrier stopped manufacturing its high-efficiency condensing furnaces with high-grade stainless steel and instead used plastic-coated mild steel that

Bankruptcy Group Joins New York Office from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP NEW YORK, May 10, 2007 – O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Michael J. Sage, formerly the co-chair of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP’s Financial Restructuring Group, along with fellow former Stroock partners Gerald C. Bender, Doron Lipshitz, and Patricia

ATLANTA (May 10) — Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that Adwoa Awotwi, an attorney in the firm’s Corporate Department, and Katherine Johnson, an attorney in the firm’s Financial Transactions, Real Estate and Restructuring Department, were selected as a members of the Destiny Fund’s 2008 class. The Destiny Fund is a program of The Atlanta Women’s Foundation

London – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – DLA Piper have advised Royal Bank of Scotland on its provision of £175,000,000 debt funding to The GAME Group plc – a high street retailer specialising in PC and video games. The funding was utilised by GAME to refinance its existing debt and to acquire Gamestation

LawFuel – The Law Newswire – In a slap in the face for the New Zealand judiciary, the Privy Council has deemed the multiple murder convictions of David Bain a ‘substantial miscarriage of justice’ and quashed the convictions. The embarrassing decision also leaves open the major question: will the Crown proceed with another trial, given

May 10, 2007 Hong Kong LAWFUEL- The Law Newswire – International companies are being forced to engage in expensive and time-consuming litigation because the Hong Kong Companies Registry is not adequately protecting the rights of trademark holders, according to international law firm Jones Day. At a briefing in Hong Kong today, Sebastian Hughes, a solicitor

by Andrew Beutmueller Last week in the US, hordes of angry libertarian geeks stormed the self-proclaimed “social content” website Digg.com. The virtual mêlée was sparked when Digg removed several postings of the code used to crack High Definition DVD content. Outraged by what they regard as “censorship” more than a million registered users deluged the