SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934 Release No. 59645 / March 30, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) announced the temporary suspension of trading in the securities of Global Matrechs, Inc. (Global), commencing at 9:30 a.m. EDT on March 30, 2009 and terminating at 11:59 p.m. EDT on April 13, 2009.
LawFuel.com – UK Legal Announcements – 27 March 2009 Freshfields advises Morgan Stanley on securities joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJInternational law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising leading global financial services firm Morgan Stanley on the formation of a securities joint venture combining Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co., Ltd. and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Co., Ltd.,
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Two weeks after opening up its ‘Sidebar’ program to incoming associates as a means of encouraging one-year deferrals, The Am Law 100’s top firm by gross revenue has succumbed to the wave of staff layoffs sweeping the legal industry. This week Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom began a round of layoffs among its 2,000
LawFuel Hot Files – US Judge Donald D Thompson may not have achieved much while sitting on the bench in Oklahoma, but the “penis pump” judge who was convicted three years ago for using a penis pump device under his judicial robes has now had his robes taken away along with his pump and retirement
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PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Harold Wayne Pease, Jr., 62, of Avondale, Ariz., was found guilty today by a federal jury of Making a False Statement to the Social Security Administration. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell from March 24 through 27. Pease remains out of custody pending sentencing which is set
Assault occurred while defendant and victim worked as defense contractors PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Aaron Bridges Langston, 32, of Snowflake, Ariz., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Earl H. Carroll to 26 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for stabbing another contractor while working in Iraq. Langston was
LAWFUEL.COM – Legal Newswire LOS ANGELES – An Orange County man pleaded guilty today to federal fraud charges related to a long-running Ponzi scheme in which he collected more than $15 million from investors with bogus promises of annual returns as high as 18 percent. John Anthony Miller, 51, of San Clemente, pleaded guilty today
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How many times do Net ‘newbies’ seeking to make their fortune on the Net find the ‘gurus’ seeking to sell their latest product being ‘hit’ by various messages that all sound strangely the same? Such as ‘server down’, due to massive demand. Or ‘sorry, we’ve fixed the link’ to provide an excuse to reforward their
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Friday that it has laid off 36 support staff workers across the firm’s nine offices in response to the declining demand for legal services. News of the firm’s reductions comes as poor economic conditions continue to take a toll on the legal industry. Gibson Dunn is the fourth L.A.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., March 11 LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire — Within the recent news reports concerning Chris Brown and Rihanna are rumors suggesting that there was a text message between Mr. Brown and his manager, Tina Davis, of an intimate nature. Ms. Davis has authorized her attorney, Marshall B. Grossman of Bingham McCutchen LLP, to
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