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A former Los Angeles resident who posed as an attorney and investment banker, gained the trust of small business owners and investors, and then looted their companies and misappropriated their investments was arrested yesterday afternoon in Las Vegas, United States Attorney Debra W. Yang announced today. Daniel Nicherie, 44, of Brussels, Belgium, was arrested pursuant

Kilpatrick Stockton LLP announces the addition of two associates to the firm’s Raleigh office. Ms. Kristen Brown joins the Employee Benefits Practice Group, where she will focus on executive compensation, equity compensation, and retirement and welfare benefit plans. Ms. Kirsten Kenney joins the Real Estate Practice Group, where she will focus on commercial lending and

Baker & McKenzie today announced an endowment to establish an annual International Law Lecture Series at Georgetown University Law Center. The fund’s inaugural speaking event on April 19, 2004 will discuss Applying the United States’ Securities Regulations Abroad, featuring Public Company Accounting Oversight Board member and former Baker & McKenzie Partner Daniel Goelzer, and Professor

Parker & Waichman, LLP and affiliated counsel (http://www.worldcomstockfraud.com) announce that they have filed a new round of claims on behalf of current and former WorldCom and MCI shareholders. Many of these current and former MCI and WorldCom shareholders were not aware that shares of MCI WorldCom trading under the symbols WCOEQ and MCWEQ will likely

The international law firm of Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced today that Alan I. Raylesberg, 53, has joined the Firm as a partner in the litigation practice, resident in New York. Mr. Raylesberg comes to Chadbourne from Vinson & Elkins in New York, where he was a partner and head of the New York litigation

Latham & Watkins went a step further in creating the leading global litigation team, with the arrival of Patrick Dunaud, Emmanuel Drai and Judith Vuillez at the Paris office. Dunaud, Drai and Vuillez join from Sokolow Dunaud Mercadier & Carreras, where they practiced complex cross-border business litigation. With the arrival of this nine-lawyer team, Latham

An Orange County accountant who lent his name, his opinions and his services to DFJ Italia was charged today in a federal case related to a fraud scheme that cost investors more than $45 million. Richard Glenn Dunham, 56, of Corona Del Mar, who owns RDA Financial Corporation, has agreed to plead guilty to charges

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, one of the world’s leading law firms, advised privately-held Interactive Search Holdings, Inc. in its agreement, announced yesterday, to be acquired by Ask Jeeves, Inc. The deal was led by Weil Gotshal’s Silicon Valley office, in collaboration with the firm’s New York and Washington, D.C. offices. “The synergy between the

International law firm, Clifford Chance’s leading position was confirmed last week at the Asia Legal Business First Annual China Law Awards ceremony held at the Westin Hotel in Shanghai on 27th February. The firm picked up the prestigious ‘International Law Firm of the Year’ award for its work on a variety of leading transactions last

Morrison & Foerster is pleased to announce that partner Tony West has been named to the Board of Directors of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Mr. West was confirmed by the California State Senate on January 26, 2004. He will serve a 12-year term. Keith Wetmore, Chair of the Firm, commented: