TALLAHASSEE, FL – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Attorney General Bill McCollum today issued a consumer advisory warning Floridians about the increasing number of credit repair scams and simultaneously announced that his office’s Economic Crimes Division filed two lawsuits today, one against a Broward County attorney and one against a Clay County couple. The lawsuits […]
It’s a good time to find out: we’re hiring nearly 1,000 new agents this year. Being an FBI agent is a tough, demanding job—but plenty rewarding, too. You’ll experience: … The excitement of chasing terrorists, spies, and criminals, at home and abroad; … The stimulation of thinking, analyzing, and solving; … The comfort of belonging
Investor lawsuits spurred by the U.S. subprime crisis likely will spread beyond the financial and housing sectors, as more companies reveal writedowns linked to bad mortgage investments, a shareholder lawyer said on Tuesday. Already, institutional investors have brought securities fraud class-action cases against lenders and banks related to their subprime mortgage businesses. Now, more big
LAWFUEL – Bangkok: A rural school in Thailand’s Lopburi province has a renovated library and new equipment today, thanks to the efforts of Clifford Chance’s Bangkok office. Baan Nhong Plong School at Lopburi Province appealed on television for assistance last year, a plea spotted by Clifford Chance office manager Chiraprabha Tantikul. Since then, the firm
LAWFUEL – An article titled “Buchanan Ingersoll Revenue Up 4 Percent, Profits Per Equity Partner 9 Percent” was published in the February 21, 2008, edition of The Legal Intelligencer. The article notes that, after two years of large-scale mergers, Buchanan focused on integration, cost savings and creating the right practice mix in 2007. The firm’s
LawFuel – English football hero Paul Gascoigne has been arrested in the UK and ‘sectioned’ under the British Mental Health Act, the Police report. Police were reportedly called to a hotel in Gascoigne’s home town, Gateshead, where the former footballer, who has a history of emotional instability, was detained. There were no injuries reported. Gascoigne
MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the filing of a thirty-five count superseding Indictment charging twenty-two members of the Dekalb Avenue Crew — a violent street gang that operated in the vicinity of 213th Street and DeKalb Avenue in the Bronx — with murder, racketeering,
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LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Julie Torres, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Christina Pharo, United States Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service, Amos Rojas Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Robert Parker, Director, Miami-Dade Police
Legal Aid may be for the little guy lawyers, but it was a Big Law firm that has taken the largest slice of legal aid monies over the past 18 months, figures obtained by legal news and law job site www.LawFuel.co.nz reveal. Kensington Swan has been paid over $3.6 million in the past 18 months,
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Levinson, Stepanov Bring Extensive Experience to Firm’s Moscow Office MOSCOW, February, 20, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Maxim Levinson and Sergei Stepanov, who have extensive experience in international finance, M&A and corporate legal issues, have joined Baker Botts L.L.P. as a partner and special counsel, respectively, in the firm’s Moscow office. The
