LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The ‘Google’ exposure for major law firms is a useful, if unscientific instrument to monitor the most prominent law firms in the country. LawFuel’s Google-mentioned law firm survey shows the names one would normally expect at the top of such a survey – Russell McVeagh, Bell Gully, Chapman Tripp
CHICAGO – September 24, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Holland & Knight LLP announced today that Jeffrey Kuta has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner, further expanding the firm’s highly regarded national Syndication Group. Previously he was a partner with Schiff Hardin LLP. Kuta focuses his law practice on
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Guilty Plea Entered in Parallel Criminal Case Washington, D.C., Sept. 24, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed a settled enforcement action against Florida residents Paul Harary and Douglas Zemsky for their involvement in an alleged $4.4 million market manipulation and kickback scheme that defrauded customers of
WASHINGTON–Authorities have arrested more than 124 individuals in the United States on federal charges as the result of an international investigation targeting the illegal manufacturing and trafficking of anabolic steroids and its raw materials, mainly from China,along with the human growth hormone (HGH) and the insulin growth factor (IGF) markets, the Department of Justice announced
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LAWFUEL -The Legal Newswire – Today’s launch of a Policing Act wiki gives Kiwis an innovative way to suggest the wording for a new Act of Parliament. The wiki is the latest step in a comprehensive review of the 1958 Police Act. The officer in charge of the review, Superintendent Hamish McCardle, says the wiki
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in New York today speaking to students at Columbia University and the invitation to speak is putting school officials on the defensive. The U.S. State Department calls Iran one of the largest state sponsors of terrorism and Ahmadinejad is accused of funneling weapons to militants in neighboring Iraq. Today, students
London, 20 September 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Baker & McKenzie, London has acted for Merchant Bridge, as part of a consortium with Qtel and AsiaCell, on its acquisition of an Iraqi GSM licence for US$1.25 billion. The license was one of only three GSM licenses to be issued by the Iraqi
LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Jones Day won a significant victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in a case involving modifications to retiree health benefits and the arbitrability of disputes over such modifications. When Jones Day’s client, Crown Cork and Seal Company, changed the health plans provided to
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LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Mr Robert James Wilson of West Footscray, Victoria, appeared today in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Wilson, a former insurance intermediary, has been charged with 47 counts of theft, two counts of making a false document, one count
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1:39pm 25 September 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The ceremonial sword that belonged to and which was returned to Nai Yin Xue, the man now wanted by Police for the murder of his wife, Anan Liu, was found by detectives in a sealed Police exhibit bag in her car. The car was
