Australia, 16th October 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Leading Australian law firm TressCox Lawyers has gone live on ELITE 3E®, the next generation financial and practice management software system from Elite. Elite, a Thomson Reuters business, is a worldwide provider of integrated practice and financial management systems for professional services firms. TressCox selected Elite 3E to replace
DALLAS (LAWFUEL) – Once again, noted Dallas trial attorneys Richard Sayles and Mark Werbner are featured on the prestigious listing of The Best Lawyers in America. Both Mr. Sayles and Mr. Werbner, founders of the Dallas-based law firm Sayles Werbner, are singled out in the 2009 listing based on their work in “bet-the-company” and commercial
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Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged San Francisco investment adviser MedCap Management & Research LLC (MMR) and its principal Charles Frederick Toney, Jr. with reporting misleading results to hedge fund investors by engaging in a practice known as “portfolio pumping.” The SEC alleges that Toney made extensive
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WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) ― The Internal Revenue Service has announced proposed amendments to improve the Qualified Intermediary (QI) program for certain foreign financial institutions serving taxpayers with accounts outside of the United States. A QI is a foreign financial institution that has agreed with the IRS to undertake certain U.S. withholding and reporting responsibilities and has
WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — For 2009, personal exemptions and standard deductions will rise and tax brackets will widen because of inflation adjustments announced today by the Internal Revenue Service. By law, the dollar amounts for a variety of tax provisions must be revised each year to keep pace with inflation. As a result, more than three
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Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that on Oct. 29, 2008, at 9 a.m. ET, it will host the first of two roundtables on “mark-to-market” accounting and current market conditions. The roundtables will provide input to the SEC as part of a Congressionally mandated study pursuant to
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Frequent Kremlin critic and prominent human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko was hospitalized after inhaling fumes released by several mercury pellets discovered in her car in Strasbourg. Moskalenko represents the family of slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and her suspected mercury poisoning happened just a day before a scheduled preliminary hearing on Wednesday in Moscow on
POSITION RECENTLY VACATED BY NOW U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE PHILIP BRIMMER DENVER (LAWFUEL) – United States Attorney Troy Eid announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Patricia Davies will head up the office’s Special Prosecutions Section. The position was vacated yesterday by Philip Brimmer, who was sworn in as a U.S. District Court Judge. Brimmer
LawFuel – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT GROEZINGER, an attorney in Patterson, Putnam County, New York, was arrested today and presented before United States Magistrate Judge LISA MARGARET SMITH in White Plains federal court on a Complaint alleging that GROEZINGER
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LawFuel – Legal Announcements Daily – A joint federal-state law enforcement operation this morning led to the arrest of nine members of a Santa Barbara gang who are named in a federal racketeering indictment that alleges the gang has engaged in murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to distribute narcotics, distribution of narcotics
