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WASHINGTON — LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – The Internal Revenue Service is seeking candidates for membership on the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). All applicants should submit a resume and complete an application form for the fall vacancies. In addition, the IRS will require a federal tax check waiver and a Federal Bureau of […]

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – A transient was found guilty today of starting the 2006 Day Fire that burned more than 162,000 acres – most of which was in the Los Padres National Forest – and led to more than $78 million in fire suppression costs. Steven Emory Butcher, 49, was convicted of starting the

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – On 30 March 07, shortly after the team was started, it was called to assist Enfield borough officers with a Bulgarian woman that the borough believed has been trafficked to the UK for the purposes of sexual exploitation. In interview the victim, at the time 31 years old, told police

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – A federal jury in Phoenix returned guilty verdicts on numerous counts charging Paul Richard Butts, 38, of Apache Junction, Ariz., with the distribution and possession of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona Diane J.

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of PHILLIP R. BENNETT, the former Chief Executive Officer and 50- percent owner of Refco, to a $2.4 billion fraud. BENNETT had been charged in connection with his role in the

SAN DIEGO (February 15, 2008) – Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps today announced it represented Howe Barnes as underwriter of the public offering of trust preferred securities for Temecula Valley Bancorp Inc. The offering represents the very first public offering of trust preferred securities by a bank holding company on the West Coast in many

ATLANTA (February 15) – LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – Kilpatrick Stockton announced today that Partner and Former U.S. Congressman Elliott Levitas received the Thomas B. Murphy Lifetime Achievement Award from the Democratic Party of Georgia at the 2008 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner held on January 30. The Democratic Party of Georgia honored “hardworking Democrats” from Georgia’s 13

LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements On April 8 and 9, Cravath partner Jeffrey A. Smith will participate in the Sustainable Manufacturing Summit, to be held at the Art Instutue of Chicago, in which representatives from multinational companies will discuss issues relating to sustainable production and renewable energy. Jeff will serve on a panel entitled “Anticipating a

Chicago, February 14, 2008 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Project Finance Magazine, a Euromoney publication, in its February 2008 issue has selected the recent bond refinancing by the Panama Canal Railway Company (PCRC) as its “2008 Latin American Refinancing Deal of the Year.” Baker & McKenzie represented PCRC, a joint venture company owned