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Philadelphia, PA – LawFuel.com – The Law Firm Newswire – January 4, 2013 – Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that eight associates have been elected to the partnership, effective January 1, 2013. All were promoted from within the firm. Those elected as partners are: Daniel J. Boland – Philadelphia, Commercial Litigation John W. Devine – Philadelphia, […]

LawFuel.com – US Law News – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), today announced the arrest of MICHAEL VANHISE for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. VANHISE allegedly agreed to pay

LawFuel.com – The closure of one of Switzerland’s oldest banks, Wegelin which founded in 1741 has left the Swiss banking community in shock with a worrying concern for them about what and who might be next on the Ú prosecution shopping list òf Swiss banks. Wegelin has also agreed to pay $57.8m (£36m; 44m euros)

LawFuel.com – Legal and Law Enforcement Newswire – First Corporate Consulting Inc. is pleased to announce that it will soon be adding international service to its Illinois Private Detective agency. The firm is run by Illinois private detective Arnold M. Diamond, and it is a national provider for various types of consultative services which provides

TORONTO (January 3, 2013) – LawFuel.com – Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes), one of Canada’s leading business law firms, announced today that Bloomberg’s Global Legal Advisory, Mergers and Acquisitions Rankings 2012 recognized the Firm as the top M&A legal services provider in Canada. Blakes is also the only Canadian law firm to make the

LOS ANGELES – LawFuel.com – The US Law Newswire Service – Seeking leads in an unsolved child sexual exploitation case, federal authorities today announced the filing of a federal criminal complaint against two individuals – known only as “John Doe” and “Jane Doe” – who are charged with producing child pornography. In relation to the

LawFuel.com – Sports Law News – Racist chants and racial abuse arising from Ghana footballer Kevin-Prince Boateng have elevated the debate about how best to handle such behaviour in sports games. The AC Milan players left the filed because of the chants and abandoned an exhibition match, according to news reports. Associated Press report that

LawFuel.com – F Lee Bailey, once one of the most famed criminal attorneys in the United States, is not permitted to practice law in Maine after a ruling from the State of Maine Board of Bar Examiners. Bailey, who represented everyone from the Boston Strangler to O J Simpson,was deemed not to have proven that

LawFuel.com – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Toni Weirauch, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today the indictment of TREVOR WHITTINGHAM, an owner of parking lots in Manhattan, for a scheme in which he

LawFuel.com – Banking Law Newswire – In First-Ever Guilty Plea to Tax Law Violations by a Foreign Bank, Wegelin & Co. Agrees to Pay $74 Million to the United States Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Kathryn Keneally, the Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division of the