LawFuel.co.nz – Legal Jobs Newswire – The travails of legally-challenged entertainers continues with Boy George’s latest escapade with a gay prostitute. What sort of fun guy is he, anyway? I had my own gay encounter with the profligate performer, in a sense, last century when I was spending an unhappy time at a commercial law
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(LAWFUEL) – A 48-year-old Australian woman will appear in Perth Magistrates Court today charged with importing drugs into Australia. The Carabooda woman was stopped for questioning by Customs officers yesterday after arriving at Perth International Airport on a flight from Singapore. During questioning, Customs officers became suspicious that the woman was concealing drugs internally and
(LAWFUEL) – Three Mexican nationals, two men and one woman, will face Melbourne MagistratesCourt this morning, charged with attempting to import 64.6kg of cocaine into Australia. The joint investigation by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US ICE) has resulted in the disruption of a transnational syndicate and the
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A congressional committee is investigating the circumstances that led to the sex scandal causing the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and whether the case was politically motivated. The House Financial Services Committee is seeking to determine whether federal agents misused their expanded powers under the Patriot Act. “We have no concern about Eliot
BREAKING STORY 11-28-08 (Michael Ehline, personal injury lawyer Los Angeles) Black Friday, November 28, 2008, will be remembered as a day in infamy, because of the deaths of innocent life, apparently, all over getting your Christmas gift first. Reminiscent of the recent case of Whitesnake, where in members of the audience were trapped in a
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The widow of slain Washington, D.C., lawyer Robert Wone filed a $20 million wrongful death suit against the three men who were indicted last week on charges that they obstructed the investigation into Wone’s death. The mysterious death of Robert Wone, general counsel for Radio Free Asia and a former associate at Covington & Burling,
Latest Act of Intimidation Against the Hermitage Fund and HSBC in Russia 27 November 2008 – LawFuel.com – International Legal Newswire Service – Sergei Magnitskiy, a legal and accounting adviser with the Moscow-based law firm, Firestone Duncan, was arrested by the Russian Interior Ministry following a raid on his home. Mr. Magnitskiy is currently being
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LAWFUEL.co.nz – Legal Jobs Newswire – Britain’s Climate Change Bill has become law, making Britain the first country in the world to implement legally binding carbon emission reduction targets. “This signals Gordon Brown’s and his Labour government’s commitment to drastically reduce the country’s domestic emissions, a lead the New Zealand government has little choice but
(LAWFUEL) – Leading law firm Buddle Findlay has been declared this year’s New Zealand tax controversy firm of the year in the prestigious International Tax Review’s Asia Awards. The magazine’s annual awards are given across 11 jurisdictions in the Asia Pacific Region: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea,
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Which law firms are grabbing the lion’s share of the international litigation cake? UK legal magazine The Lawyer has compiled the litigation ranking of law firms based on revenue they generate. For the first time the world’s largest firms have been ranked in order of the litigation revenue they generate. The figures reveal the largest
