(LAWFUEL) – Washington D.C., December 17, 2008 – Baker & McKenzie has expanded its North American Antitrust & Competition Practice Group with the addition of former FTC Commissioner Mary Azcuenaga as a partner in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Ms. Azcuenaga was a partner at Heller Ehrman, serving for six years as co-chair of the […]

Expert in International Law to Launch School’s New Arbitration Institute Coral Gables, FL (December 17, 2008 – LAWFUEL) – The University of Miami School of Law today announced the appointment of Jan Paulsson to the Michael Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair beginning in the academic year 2009-10. Paulsson is head of the public international law and

Washington, D.C., Dec. 16, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox issued the following statement today concerning its ongoing investigation in the case of SEC v. Madoff: Since the Commission first took emergency action against Bernard Madoff and his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, LLC, on Thursday, December 11, every necessary

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – Mohammad Reza Alavi, 51, of Huntington Beach, Calif., was sentenced here today by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 15 months in federal prison. Alavi, a former employee of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, was found guilty by a federal jury on May 27, 2008 for Unauthorized Access to a

PHOENIX (LAWFUEL) – James Spotted-Hawk Miles, 32, of Scottsdale, Ariz. and a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Tribe, was sentenced here yesterday to 10 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. Miles pleaded guilty on August 11, 2008 to Assault with a Dangerous Weapon. On November 23, 2007, on

(LAWFUEL) – Adams and Reese LLP Special Counsel Richard. P. Carmody was presented with the 2009 L. Burton Barnes, III Public Service Award at the Birmingham Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, held Friday, December 12 at the Jefferson County Courthouse. The award is given annually to a member of the Bar who has given freely of

WASHINGTON (LAWFUEL) — The Internal Revenue Service today announced an expedited process that will make it easier for financially distressed homeowners to avoid having a federal tax lien block refinancing of mortgages or the sale of a home. If taxpayers are looking to refinance or sell a home and there is a federal tax lien

LawFuel – Legal Newswire – LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that ANURAG DIKSHIT — a founder and former officer and director of PartyGaming PLC, an internet gambling business — pleaded guilty

Los Angeles – LawFuel Legal Announcements – The owner of American Growth Fund LLC was sentenced this afternoon to spend 78 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Gary A. Feess for wire fraud and the structuring of cash transactions related to his scheme that defrauded a victim- investor out of approximately $1.8