LawFuel.co.nz – NZ’s Online Legal Jobs Board – Although 2009 is going to be tough with legal jobs redundancies ahead, the prospects are not as grim as many might otherwise think, according to lawyers spoken to by LawFuel, the NZ legal jobs board. “2008 was one of the toughest years we’ve had,” said one lawyer […]
Linklaters, the UK based law firm, has claimed first place in a global mergers and acquisitions league table ousting US rival Sullivan & Cromwell, which has held the top spot for the past four years. Roles on four of the ten biggest M&A deals of 2008 – including InBev’s $60.8 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch, the
January 3, 2009 (by Otto Smyth) According to reports by Ehline Law injury attorneys in Los Angeles, a late night accident sent one person to the hospital and injured others after the driver lost control of the vehicle. The crash was a one vehicle crash, a driver of a gray Lexus lost control of the
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Dozens of public interest legal organizations have been hit financially by the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme and are scrambling to make up the shortfalls. Organizations from the Center for Constitutional Rights to the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic to the American Civil Liberties Union found out before Christmas
LawFuel – Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Anthony Mangione, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Office of Investigations, Miami Field Office, Lee Huttenbach, Special in Charge, Southeast Region, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Office of Inspector General, Samuel Santiago, Supervisory
ven before the economic tsunami swept across the world’s markets, inundating clients and practice areas alike, a variety of storm clouds hung over the law firm landscape. Collectively they suggested that serious changes might be in the offing for a market notable for two seemingly immutable traits: relentless success and an ability to dodge, defeat,
CORTEZ TAXIDERMIST SENTENCED FOR LACEY ACT VIOLATIONS DENVER (LAWFUEL) – Paul Ray Weyand, age 37, of Cortez, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Walker D. Miller to serve 3 years probation, with the first 6 months in home detention, for violations of the Lacey Act, United States Attorney Troy Eid announced. Weyand,
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Washington, D.C., Dec. 31, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Peter S. Kiernan, Deputy Director of the Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, is retiring from public service after more than 40 years working at the agency where he was a key liaison between the Commission and the Congress. “Peter’s
Washington, D.C., Dec. 30, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today delivered a report to Congress mandated by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that recommends against the suspension of fair value accounting standards. Rather, the 211-page report by the SEC’s Office of the Chief Accountant and Division of Corporation Finance recommends
PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Rigoberto Aramburo-Lizzaraga, 25; Juan Andres Ramirez-Aguirre, 34; Franki Alfonso Garcia-Sustaita 31; and, Santiago Casteneda-Aramburo 18, all of Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, pleaded guilty to Using, Carrying and Brandishing a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence (Hostage Taking) in a Federal District Court in Phoenix. All the defendants pleaded over
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