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Attorney Faces up to 33 Months in Prison for Orchestrating Firm’s Secret Kickback Scheme Involving Named Plaintiffs in Class Actions LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – Becoming the fourth current or former partner of the law firm now known as Milberg Weiss to admit criminal conduct, Melvyn I. Weiss has agreed to plead guilty to a […]

WASHINGTON — LAWFUEL – Military personnel serving in combat zones have the option of including their nontaxable combat pay on their 2007 or 2008 income tax returns if it helps their eligibility for the 2008 economic stimulus payments. To receive the stimulus payment this year, combat zone personnel or their spouses must file a 2007

In March 14, 2008, Director Robert S. Mueller, III appointed Thomas J. Harrington Associate Executive Assistant Director (AEAD) of the National Security Branch (NSB). In this new role, he joins the NSB leadership team that includes Executive Assistant Director Art Cummings and AEAD Philip Mudd. AEAD Harrington will continue to lead the Strategic Execution Team

March 19, 2008 (Otto Smyth) Tuesday afternoon on Highway 154 in the vicinity of Santa Ynez is where an accident took place between a car and motorcycle crash that ended with two fatalities. According to the California Highway Patrol the accident occurred when a vehicle struck a motorcycle head on near the intersection of Alamo

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LONDON – Allen & Overy LLP today announced that it has advised Misys plc on the proposed merger of its wholly owned division Misys Healthcare with Allscripts to form Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc. (Allscripts-Misys), and create a leader in the provision of clinical software and services for the US ambulatory healthcare market. The transaction is

LOS ANGELES and NEW YORK, March 19, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Today Loeb & Loeb LLP announced the launch of a new practice group, the Emerging Media and Technology Practice Group, which has been formed to serve new media and technology clients and traditional media clients entering the space. The national team will be comprised

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of a settled civil injunctive action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Ralph Gregory Gibbs, a resident of New Haven, West Virginia, who operated an offering fraud and “Ponzi” scheme. The Complaint alleges that since at least April 2005

March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Chadbourne & Parke LLP was honored by The Hedge Fund Journal as an advisor to the publication’s Deal of the Year: the $3.4 billion GLG Partners/Freedom Acquisition Holdings, Inc. transaction. Chadbourne represented GLG, a leading alternative asset manager with net assets under management of over $24 billion, in the

Washington, D.C., March 18, 2008 – LAWFUEL – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed settled securities fraud charges against W.P. Carey & Co., a manager of real estate investment trusts (REITs), and two of W.P. Carey’s senior executives for paying undisclosed compensation to a brokerage firm that sold the REITs to investors. W.P. Carey