LOS ANGELES – March 8 2012 – The last of nine defendants facing trial next week on federal fraud charges stemming from boiler room operations that solicited investments in independent movies pleaded guilty in federal district court yesterday afternoon, admitting that he participated in a conspiracy to defraud investors that included false promises of up
What is going on at Dewey & LeBoeuf? It’s a questions that’s been on many legal lips of late, particularly with reports that the firm has defaulted on payments to former parments and on a required ERISA deposit. So what is happening to the big-name firm? A report from AbovetheLaw recently reported the allegations of
LawFuel.com – Priceline.com has shown a strong growth in 2011 and its credit rating has increased to BBB. The company will be further encouraged by the announcements, particularly following last month’s California Appeals Court ruling in favor of Priceline so far as ‘resort fees’ are concerned. The Court was hearing a case against Priceline who
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LawFuel.com – PayPal’s request to certain publishers to remove books that contain what PayPal considers “obscene” themes could be challenged legally according to some sources. PayPal,which is the online payments arm of eBay Inc, has sparked controversy in the publishing world by asking some e-book distributors to ban books that contain such themes as rape,
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LawFuel.com – 8 March 2012 – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ronald J. Verrochio, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced that HEIDI WALKER, a former Managing Director of AIG Global Investment Group and Deutsche Asset Management and
DLA Piper announced today that Theresa A. Harrison has joined the firm as Pro Bono Project Manager in the Washington, DC office. In this newly created position, she will support the firm’s pro bono programs in the United States and New Perimeter, DLA Piper’s non-profit affiliate dedicated exclusively to global pro bono work. Harrison has
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LawFuel.com – Important issues are going to arise in the killing room case involving the Virginia Tech Killing Room lawsuit. The Virginia Tech officials operated in an appropriate manner, defense attorneys argued in their opening statements Tuesday, in their defense of actions the morning of April 16, 2007 prior to Seung-Hui Cho shooting and killing
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Matchcompany.co.nz – Dating for men can be challenging when women appear more assertive, more ‘in control’ and more requiring of some understanding from their male partners. New Zealand’s dating scene is no different from most others in most respects, with most men saying that women can be difficult to understand. But in order to establish
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Lawfuel.com – It seems Americans are going about divorce the new way, according to a report from Bloombergs in the San Francisco Chronicle. They’re doing the DIY Divorce route without lawyers at all. A controversy over divorce procedures in Texas is calling attention to a profound shift in the way Americans in all 50 states
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Iran has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer, Abdolfattah Soltani, to 18 years in jail for allegedly spreading anti-regime propaganda, several opposition websites reported on Tuesday. “One of my husband’s lawyers was told that my husband was sentenced to 18 years in jail in Borazjan (south Iran) and was also banned from practising law for
