Philadelphia, Pa. (LAWFUEL) – January 22, 2009 – Pepper Hamilton LLP announced that three associates have been elected to the partnership and four have been elected of counsel, effective January 1, 2009. All were promoted from within the firm. The lawyers represent four offices and five practice areas. The three new partners are: P. Thao […]

Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Arthur Nadel of Sarasota, Fla., with fraud in connection with six hedge funds for which he acted as the principal investment advisor. According to the SEC’s complaint, Nadel provided false and misleading information for dissemination to investors about the funds’ historical

Washington (LAWFUEL) — The Internal Revenue Service announced today that taxpayers in Delaware, Illinois, New York and Rhode Island who file paper income tax returns will send them to different processing centers this year. Taxpayers in Delaware, New York and Rhode Island will now send their tax returns to the IRS Kansas City Service Center

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Richard Allen Jones, 44, of Cave Creek, Ariz., pleaded guilty today to Theft of Mail by a Postal Employee. Sentencing is set before U.S. District Judge Mary H. Murguia on April 20, 2009. The indictment alleged that from July 2007 through March 2008, Jones served as a mail carrier assigned to the

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Rogelio Leon-Felix, 50, of Phoenix, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Roslyn O. Silver to 10 years in federal prison. Young pleaded guilty on August 28, 2008, to Conspiracy to Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine. In September 2007, Special Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received information that

The lawyer redundancy count is going up, but some law firms are also expanding Among the latest British firms to announce redundancies is Denton Wilde Sapte, which has announced up to 80 redundancies across most departments excluding competition, tax and probably insolvency areas. The redundancies affect the firms international offices as well as offices at

TALLAHASSEE, FL LawFuel.com – Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Middle District of Florida today announced that Albert Andre Zimmerman, a former state spokesperson for the Florida Department of Children and Families, pleaded guilty to one count of a federal charge of production of child pornography. Zimmerman, 41, faces

Washington, D.C., Jan. 21, 2009 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the appointment of Andrew N. Vollmer as the agency’s Acting General Counsel. Mr. Vollmer succeeds Brian Cartwright, who left the agency this week to return to the private sector. Mr. Vollmer joined the SEC staff in 2006 to become the agency’s

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Roy Samuel Thomas, 21, of Chandler, Ariz. and a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Tribe, was sentenced here today to 56 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt. Thomas pleaded guilty on November 6, 2008 to Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury. On January 1, 2008,

Philadelphia, Pa. (LAWFUEL) – January 20, 2009 – Joan C. Arnold, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP and chair of the firm’s Tax Practice Group, has been elected to the Board of Regents of the American College of Tax Counsel, the organization’s governing body, representing the Third Circuit. She has been a Fellow of the