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LawJobsPipeline – Legal Jobs – It’s US News & World Report college rankings time again, and the mounting storm of criticism over the magazine’s methodology and techniques for ranking America’s best schools continues to grow. We included a Washington Post criticism on LawFuel, for instance. However, critics aside, the rankings remain the pre-eminent national scoreboard

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The next messy chapter of the subprime lending saga could include fraud charges for investment banks and companies that didn’t fully tell investors how risky subprime-related securities were. Within the next six months, it should be clear how regulators will proceed against those companies, said Michael Malloy, a former

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Skadden Arps achieved a significant success for firm client Wild Oats, convincing a federal judge to deny the U.S. government’s request to temporarily block Whole Foods Markets Inc.’s $565 million purchase of Wild Oats.

WASHINGTON – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Department of Justice today announced more than $6.7 million in anti-crime funding to New York City through the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program to support a broad range of activities to prevent and control crime and improve the criminal justice system. The JAG program,

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Boston Globe reports that a couple arrested at a rally after refusing to cover T-shirts that bore anti-President Bush slogans settled their lawsuit against the federal government for $80,000, the American Civil Liberties Union announced Thursday. Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – For the Week Ending August 17, 2007 1. Miami: American Citizen Convicted of Terror Charge Jose Padilla was convicted of conspiracy to murder, kidnap and maim individuals in a foreign country; conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists; and providing material support to terrorists. The jury found the defendant

Friday 17 August 2007 LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has obtained ex parte injunctions in the Supreme Court in Brisbane against Jim’s Water Tanks Pty Ltd (Jim’s Water Tanks) and its chief executive officer and former director, Mr Alan Bradley Jorgensen. These orders were obtained on Monday

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – A man has pleaded guilty today (Friday, 17 August 2007) to attempting to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, causing a child to look at images of people engaged in sexual activity and making and distributing indecent images of children. Richard Colin Findley, aged 43, a teacher,

Washington, D.C., Aug. 17, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission today filed fraud charges against Michael J. Byrd, a former Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., alleging that he disregarded indications that other senior corporate executives were improperly backdating stock option grants

LAWFUEL – Britney Spears’ matrimonial issues have become more acrimonious with a tearful meeting after the 25-year-old singer left her lawyers’ office yesterday. The Daily Telegraph reports that her ex-husband Kevin Federline, 29, has served legal papers on some of her closest friends and associates in an attempt to win sole custody of the couple’s