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NATIONALLY RANKED IN PRODUCTS LIABILITY AND TRANSPORTATION Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business highly rates eight practices and 29 lawyers based on client interviews and independent research Philadelphia, Pa. (LAWFUEL) – June 30, 2008 – Pepper Hamilton LLP’s commercial litigation practice is ranked as one of the two best in Pennsylvania, and the firm’s

HARTFORD, Conn., June 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — The law firm of Schatz Nobel Izard P.C., which has significant experience representing investors in prosecuting claims of securities fraud, announces that a lawsuit seeking class action status has been filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on behalf of all those

NEW YORK, June 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) — Lead Counsel Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP is pleased to announce completion of claims processing for the previously approved partial settlement in In re American Italian Pasta Corp. Securities Litigation, which was brought on behalf of investors in American Italian Pasta Corp. (Pink Sheets:AITP) for the

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Luis Morales-Martinez, 24, and Rodrigo Casimiro-Lopez, 23, both of Mexico, were each sentenced to 71 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake. Both defendants pleaded guilty without a plea agreement on April 1, 2008, to a charge of harboring illegal aliens. The evidence introduced at a federal court hearing

June 30, 2008 (Washington, D.C.) – International law firm Nixon Peabody LLP is expanding its public finance practice with the addition of Gary Bornholdt. Mr. Bornholdt is a tax lawyer who has served for the past four years as Legislation Counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation. He will join the firm on July 30,

NEW YORK (June 25, 2008) – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcement Service – ALM Research, a leading source of business intelligence for the legal profession, today announced the release of its Annual Compensation Survey for Paralegals/Legal Assistants and Managers, 2008 Edition. More than 363 organizations participated in the survey (285 law firms and 78 law departments),

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted four people in a mortgage fraud scheme that collected approximately $4 million in loan proceeds for properties that were not for sale. The four defendants, all of whom were taken into custody starting last night, are named in a 14-count indictment

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – In the first case of its kind in the nation, a Wyoming man has been charged with using modified peer-to-peer software to infect computers and create “botnets” – armies of compromised computers numbering from 5,000 to 15,000 machines – that he exploited to obtain credit card and banking information. In

Real estate law firm that wrote the book on California real property law names new editor-in-chief. Walnut Creek, Calif., (June 27, 2008) LAWFUEL – Miller Starr Regalia, a leading California real estate law firm, announced today that on July 1, 2008, shareholder Karl Geier will assume the role of editor-in-chief of Miller & Starr California