Legal Jobs in New Zealand continue to slow, although selected areas like resource management, litigation and insolvency remain areas of high demand for experienced lawyers, says legal jobs website LawFuel.co.nz Among recent legal jobs listed by the jobs site are: * Resource management – DLA Phillips Fox seek a resource management lawyer<a href=Click here for […]

NEW YORK, May 14 LawFuel.com – Legal Newswire – — Mark G. Cunha, a partner in the civil litigation department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, was elected the new Chair of the Board of Directors of Legal Services NYC – the largest organization devoted to providing free civil legal services in the United States,

New York – May 19, 2009 – Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advised US Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS) and its controlling shareholder, Providence Equity Partners, in the acquisition by USIS of Labat-Anderson, Incorporated, a professional services firm serving government agencies in the areas of litigation support and information systems and services. A definitive agreement was signed

Washington, D.C., May 22, 2009 – LawFuel.com – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro today outlined a series of measures the agency is taking to strengthen its internal compliance program to guard against inappropriate employee securities trading. “It only makes sense that we have a world-class compliance program – just as we expect from

LawFuel.com – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that stock brokers ALAIN LUSTIG and RUBEN SERRANO pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud charges arising from a scheme to manipulate the stock of Smart Online. LUSTIG pleaded guilty today before United States

LawFuel.com – Washington, D.C., May 21, 2009 – The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged eight participants in a penny stock manipulation ring that allegedly pumped the market prices of at least four stocks and generated more than $6.2 million in illicit profits when they dumped shares on the market. The SEC alleges that Pawel

LawFuel.com – Legal News HOUSTON – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP announced today that Cristina Portela Solomon has joined the firm’s Houston office as a partner in its Labor section. Ms. Solomon brings extensive experience in employment litigation and other labor matters involving complex employment laws governing the employee-employer relationship. Her 25-year legal career has been

LAWFUEL.COM – 88 Arrested Today as Part of Largest Federal Gang Prosecution in U.S. History In the nation’s largest-ever gang sweep, approximately 1,400 law enforcement officers this morning swept across the City of Hawaiian Gardens to arrest dozens of people named in a federal RICO indictment that describes a war against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s