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LAWFUEL – US Law, US Law Jobs – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Eddie McKissick, Senior Resident in Charge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announced that defendant Jimmy Spurgeon Smith of Highlands County, Florida was sentenced on March 5, 2007 by United States District Court Judge K.

SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – US Law, US Lawyer – A former senior vice president of a Redwood City bank was sentenced today to serve a term of 15 months in prison, and ordered to pay at total of $188,714 in restitution, following her conviction for bank fraud. Vivian Michelle Titus was sentenced by United

LAWFUEL – Finance Law News – We are pleased to announce that Hannah Terhune will be moderating a conference at the Financial Due Diligence conference on April 24 and 25, 2007 at the Hotel InterContinental in Miami, Florida. Ms. Terhune will be moderating on the topic, “Hedge Fund Due Diligence: Onshore and Offshore.” Ms. Terhune

LAWFUEL – US Attorney – Law News – Defendant Dewitt Jackson “Jack” Maxwell was sentenced today to sixty (60) months’ imprisonment following his November 2006 conviction on a scheme to defraud the Miami-Dade County Aviation Department and the Federal Aviation Administration at Miami International Airport in connection with the federal Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (“DBE”) program

Holland & Knight’s national Intellectual Property Group adds a prominent biotech patent lawyer to its practice through the acquisition of the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Millstein & Taylor, P.C. Name partner and noted life sciences attorney Larry S. Millstein, Ph.D. joins the firm’s Washington, D.C., office as partner. Also joining Holland & Knight is name

HOUSTON – LawFuel.com – Business Law – Collegiate entrepreneurs will be pursuing the next Big Idea. They’ll also be after more than $300,000 in prize money when they pitch their business plans to a judging panel of more than 150 venture capitalists, investors, attorneys and business executives at the annual Rice Business Plan Competition beginning

March 6, 2007 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA; Boise, ID) – LAWFUEL – US Business News, Law Jobs – Fenwick & West LLP represented DexCom, Inc. (NASDAQ: DXCM) in its recent Rule 144A offering of $60 million of Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 and in related issuer call spread options. DexCom, based in San

Manchester – LAWFUEL- UK Business & Law – Anita Weightman, Vanessa Rickard, Claire Quinn, Stephen Jones and Susan Fink of DLA Piper have acted for Vue Entertainment on the £71.1 million sale and leaseback of a portfolio of six cinemas to Cheval Properties. The portfolio composes five prime investment properties located in Cambridge, Doncaster, York,

LAWFUEL – Tax Law News – Offshore Legal Developments – Mourant has reinforced its new assault on the Cayman legal market by becoming the first offshore law firm to open a New York office. The news follows hard on the heels of Mourant’s announcement last week that it is joining forces with Cayman firm Quin

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Internal Revenue Service News, Law Jobs – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools announced today that Jack Easterday, of Alameda, was convicted by a federal jury late yesterday afternoon on 107 counts of willful failure to pay employment taxes owed to the government. Mr. Easterday is the owner of numerous