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Lawfuel.com – Saddam Hanging – Video Hanging – The furore over the hanging of Saddam Hussein and his two aides continues in Bagdad as lawyers and human rights groups continue to criticize the bungled executions. Some legal experts are hanging to legal threads themselves in their attacks upon the legality of the executions, recalling the

LAWFUEL – UK Business + Law News – HFW’s Senior Partner, Roderic O’Sullivan, will retire on 30 April 2007, after 36 years as a partner in the firm. Richard Crump will join HFW’s Managing Partner, Greg Gray, and Deputy/International Partner, Marcus Bowman, who have both been re-elected, unopposed, for further terms in office. Roderic has

Washington, D.C., Jan. 18, 2007 – LAWFUEL – US Business & Law – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Fred Alger Management, Inc. (Alger Management) and Fred Alger & Company, Incorporated (Alger Inc.) will pay $40 million to settle the Commission’s charges that the companies allowed market timing and late trading in the

First Formal Report on NY Judicial Selection by a Minority Bar Group (New York, NY – January 18, 2006) LAWFUEL – The New York Hispanic Bar Task Force on Judicial Selection (the “Task Force”) today issued a report calling on the State of New York to make the existing judicial nominating convention system for the

LAWFUEL – A Van Nuys man has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges for selling bogus liability insurance policies to Prime Time Shuttle, which ferried passengers to and from local airports without any insurance coverage for more than two years. Gurjeet Singh, also known as George Singh, 56, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon to two counts

CLEVELAND–LAWFUEL –Ulmer & Berne LLP, a major Ohio-based law firm with four offices throughout the Midwest, announced today that two of its partners, Jeffrey S. Dunlap and John J. Haggerty, have been elected to take on larger roles within the Firm. Jeffrey S. Dunlap has been named chair of the Firm’s Employment & Labor Group.

LAWFUEL – Europe Law News – Alexander Schaub, most recently Director General for Internal Market and Services and formerly Director General for Competition with the European Commission, is to join international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Dr Schaub will join the firm’s Brussels office as Of Counsel on 1 February 2007. After more than 30

A man from Kyoto, Japan has pleaded guilty to federal charges of trafficking in rare and protected butterfly species in violation of United States laws and an international treaty that protects endangered species. Hisayoshi Kojima, 57, pleaded guilty yesterday to 17 felony charges related to the sale and smuggling of several butterfly species that he

LOS ANGELES–LAWFUEL – Business & Litigation News –In one of the largest legal victories for a Chinese company in an American court, a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge entered a default judgment on behalf of Analysis Group’s client, Hong Kong-based New World TMT Limited, for compensatory and punitive damages totaling $2.8 billion. The judgment