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LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Representation of Toshiba Corporation (Japan), in its US$1.2 billion sale of a 23% stake in Westinghouse Electric Company LLC, a builder of nuclear power plants. Toshiba sold a 20% stake of Westinghouse Electric to The Shaw Group Inc., an engineering and construction contracting company, and a 3% stake

Thursday 5 October 2006 06- LAWFUEL – Australian Law News – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has disqualified three company directors from managing corporations following their involvement in failed companies. ASIC banned bankrupt property developer, Mr Angelo Ferella, of Blacktown, New South Wales, for the maximum period of five years. ASIC also disqualified

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Roger L. Wirth announced today that KENNETH GRIMES and BRENDA ALLEN pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns. Mr. Grimes also pleaded guilty to tax

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Mallesons Stephen Jaques has been named Construction Law Firm of the Year at the 2006 ALB Hong Kong Law Awards. This is the third time that Mallesons has received the award. According to Asian Legal Business magazine, the annual awards ceremony “recognises and promotes outstanding professional achievement and some

Tuesday 3 October 2006 LAWFUEL – Australia Law News – Mr Stephen Craig Jenvey, of Mooroolbark, Victoria, was today committed for trial by the Melbourne Magistrates Court following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Jenvey stands charged with 24 counts of theft and three counts of corruptly receiving a valuable

Thursday 5 October 2006 06 – LAWFUEL – Australia Law News – Mr Matthew David Leech, of Maiden Gully, Victoria, has appeared in the Bendigo Magistrates Court on 18 theft and dishonesty charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). These charges follow an investigation by ASIC into the activities of Mr Leech

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the temporary suspension of trading of the securities of the following issuer, commencing at 9:30 a.m. EDT on October 5, 2006 and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EDT on October 18, 2006: · Pretory USA, Inc. (n/k/a Sunrise Petroleum Resources, Inc.) (SRSP) The

The Abuse Excuse: One Size Fits All ? By James Ottavio Castagnera (Jim Castagnera, a Philadelphia lawyer and writer, is the Associate Provost/Associate Counsel at Rider University.) Perhaps it’s Clarence Darrow’s fault. The famous trial attorney, best known for the Scopes Monkey Trial immortalized in “Inherit the Wind,” also represented the thrill killers Leopold and