MAYOR NUTTER APPOINTS MICHAEL A. SCHWARTZ, PEPPER HAMILTON PARTNER, AS CHAIRMAN OF TASK FORCE ON ETHICS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM Philadelphia, Pa. – October 7, 2008 – Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter has appointed Michael A. Schwartz, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and a former federal prosecutor, as chairman of a newly formed Task
Chicago, October 7, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Baker & McKenzie has appointed Martin Telfer as its new Global Director of Information Systems. Mr. Telfer was the Firm’s Asia Pacific Regional IT Director and Global Head of In-Sourcing for Global Services Manila. He will be based in Chicago beginning January 2009. As Asia Pacific Regional IT Director,
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WASHINGTON, D.C. October 7, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Firm Ober|Kaler is pleased to announce that Alan J. Arville has been selected by Nightingale’s Healthcare News for its 2008 ranking of “Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers.” Highly regarded by clients and colleagues, Mr. Arville is one of only twelve attorneys from across the nation selected for the list.
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Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced additional details on the process and initial steps that the SEC has undertaken to conduct a study on “mark-to-market” accounting, as authorized by Sec. 133 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, signed into law by President Bush last Friday.
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Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former vice president at national home furnishing retailer Restoration Hardware with insider trading for tipping three friends that the company was about to be acquired, enabling them to make more than $900,000 in unlawful profits when public announcement of the
ATLANTA (October 7) — Senior leaders from more than 65 of the top companies in the U.S. were among those in attendance at the 2008 Kilpatrick Stockton Labor and Employment Law Seminar held September 25 in Atlanta. Distinguished guest speakers, including top executives from Best Buy and H&M, as well as members of Kilpatrick Stockton’s
Law firms have now morphed from facilitators of wealth into grief counselors for the financially stricken or confused. Overnight, it seems, firms are handing out handkerchiefs and setting up virtual information booths to help clients track the latest developments on the financial crisis and bailout. Akin Gump, Bracewell & Giuliani, Fried Frank, Gibson Dunn &
While Yale Law School recently lost several big-name professors, its rival in Cambridge has been expanding aggressively — often directly at Yale’s expense. Harvard’s latest appointments are part of a host of changes under the deanship of Elena Kagan targeted at dispelling stereotypes about Harvard Law School’s low quality of life, large class sizes and
WASHINGTON, DC, October 6, 2008 — LawFuel – Legal Announcements – Covington & Burling LLP is significantly expanding its national intellectual property litigation practice with the addition of approximately 50 lawyers in California and Washington, DC. Covington is also opening new offices in Silicon Valley, where it already has a large client base, and San
LawFuel – Legal Announcements – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael E. Yasofsky, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations (“IRS”), announced that defendants Omar Mohd Oweis and Anisa Oweis were indicted on tax fraud charges in connection with American Fire Sprinkler Systems, Inc.
