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LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Law Jobs – The former chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Homestore.com, Inc. was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for piloting a scheme that artificially inflated the company’s on-line advertising in an attempt to make the company appear to be more profitable to

LawFuel.com’s Hot Files carries LA’s Defamer report that notwithstanding Liz Rosenberg’s smokescreen disavowals, it would appear that Madonna’s Mission of Mercy™ to the impoverished African nation of Malawi also doubled as a baby-shopping spree, as the AP is now reporting that the latter-day, cone-bra’d Christ figure has signed all the necessary paperwork to adopt a

Assets Frozen, Receiver Appointed in Atlanta-Based Scam Washington, D.C., Oct. 12, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday filed emergency securities fraud charges against an Atlanta promoter to halt a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $30 million from approximately 2,000 investors in fraudulent real estate development partnerships.

TORONTO (October 11, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Canada Law News – Stikeman Elliott LLP is pleased to announce the election of Mr. Pierre Raymond as Chair of the firm. Mr. Raymond succeeds Mr. Edward J. Waitzer, who has completed two terms as Chair and will continue his corporate law practice as a partner of the

DALLAS–LAWFUEL – US Legal News Daily –“It was recently disclosed that the personal data of hundreds of thousands of consumers may have been compromised as a result of a data security breaches at companies such as GE, Ernst & Young, Fidelity Investments, Boeing and Ameriprise Financial. In response, legal and technology services firm Scott &

CLEVELAND- LAWFUEL – US Legal News Network -Ulmer & Berne LLP announced today that one of its attorneys, Stephanie E. Kennedy, was appointed as Secretary to the Board of Directors for the Cleveland Entrepreneurship Preparatory School. The school, referred to as E-Prep, opened its doors for the first time this year on August 23, 2006

For more information, contact Jamie Moss, newsPRos, 201-493-1027 (Oct. 12, 2006, New York) – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Reed Smith LLP, a top-25 international law firm, today announced the addition of three partners to its expanding New York City office. Effective immediately, James Tandler, Patrick de Carbuccia and Michael Pollack will be

Former Instinet Group General Counsel Paul A. Merolla to Head Manhattan Operation NEW YORK, Oct. 12 LAWFUEL – US Law News — LeClair Ryan, a Virginia-based law firm, today announced the opening of its New York office at 830 Third Avenue in midtown Manhattan. Paul A. Merolla, a former executive vice president and general counsel

London – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – DLA Piper has advised John Hargreaves, Matalan plc’s founder and chairman, on a recommended offer of the budget retailer for the shares in Matalan not currently owned by the Hargreaves Family. The recommended offer values Matalan at approximately £817 million. Matalan plc, which was founded in 1985

LONDON, Oct. 12 LAWFUEL – Law News International — Today international attorney Robert Amsterdam called for an independent investigation into the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, questioning the credibility of the Russian General Prosecutor’s investigation. “The office of the Russian General Prosecutor has demonstrated a systemic inability to investigate crime, especially in cases involving