Four lawyers are set to guide Thelen’s wind-down. The three members of Thelen’s dissolution committee are David Graybeal, Douglas Davidson and Thomas Hill. The firm has also hired as outside counsel Peter Gilhuly, the Latham & Watkins bankruptcy partner who advised Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison on its dissolution half a decade ago. While the dissolution
Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission and the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) today announced they will waive the initial set-up and annual system fees paid by investment adviser firms to maintain the Investment Adviser Registration Depository (IARD) system. Separately, NASAA announced that for next year it will
Washington, D.C., Oct. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged privately-held, registered broker-dealer Lazard Capital Markets LLC with failing to supervise three employees who collectively spent more than $600,000 while improperly entertaining traders at Fidelity Investments in an effort to generate brokerage business. The SEC also charged the three employees and
DENVER (LAWFUEL) – United States Attorney Troy Eid announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Thomas O’Rourke is his office’s contact person for the Department of Justice’s nationwide Election Day Program for the November 4, 2008 general election. O’Rourke was selected for this position before early voting began. As the District Election Officer for the
TUCSON, Ariz. (LAWFUEL) – Two individuals – including one wanted for homicide – were returned to Mexico earlier this month after federal extradition proceedings were concluded in U.S. District Court. Both fugitives had been apprehended in Arizona by Deputy U.S. Marshals. Efren Martinez-Valencia, a resident alien of the United States, was arrested in Tucson on
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A federal jury in Miami today convicted Roy M. Belfast Jr. of crimes related to the torture of people in Liberia between April 1999 and July 2003, the Department of Justice and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced. Belfast, 31, a/k/a Chuckie Taylor, Charles Taylor Jr., Charles Taylor II and Charles McArther Emmanuel, was
LawFuel – Legal Announcements – United States Attorney MICHAEL J. GARCIA announced today that $549.2 million was collected on behalf of the United States in the Southern District of New York during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008. The funds collected included payments on criminal fines and restitutions, property forfeited in criminal prosecutions and
LawFuel – Legal Announcements – Illicit trade is undermining moves to establish a single market in East Africa according to a report issued today at the East Africa International Business Forum in Kigali. The Forum which is being convened by the Commonwealth Business Council, East African Business Council (EABC) and held under the leadership of
LawFuel – The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) today called on the Egyptian government to investigate death threats received by Nasser Amin, Director General, Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP), and Mr Hammad Wadi Sannd, ACIJLP researcher. On 25 October 2008, the ACIJLP received an e-mail
