NEW YORK, November 17, 2008 – The international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, LLP announced today that James Yong Wang has joined its New York office as a shareholder in the Corporate and Securities practice and the Asia practice group. Wang joins the firm from Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Wang will focus on expanding Greenberg

Mortgage industry veteran Amy Coke assisting residential lenders DALLAS (LAWFUEL) – The Texas-based residential mortgage law firm of Polunsky & Beitel, LLP, is proud to announce the addition of mortgage industry veteran Amy Coke as Director of Business Development. Ms. Coke has worked in the residential mortgage industry for more than 15 years. She joins

Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of the stock of an Internet search engine company on the basis of material, non-public information concerning an impending stock offering. The Commission’s complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court

(LAWFUEL) – A 40-year-old man appeared in Sydney’s Central Local Court this morning charged with importing a marketable quantity of a border-controlled drug suspected to be cocaine. The Spanish national was stopped by Customs officers when he arrived at Sydney Airport on a flight from Buenos Aires on Sunday 16 November. Items in the man’s

<a href= – Legal Jobs Online – James Bond’s Quantum of Solace has hit the screen with the usual Bond hoopla, but maybe in all the action there is some tips for those law job seekers who are shaken, but not stirred by the current legal market. The legal jobs market continues to create some

DENVER (LAWFUEL) – The Colorado National Guard, for the first time ever, received an asset forfeiture sharing check this afternoon at a ceremony that took place inside the State Capitol. The check was a result of a Western Slope marijuana investigation, involving the Guard as well as a number of federal agencies. Agencies participating in

Court Orders Defendants to Pay Total of $8.8 Million Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in the SEC’s favor in a trial against unregistered principal Michael W. Crow, who made millions of dollars in

Washington, D.C., Nov. 14, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox today executed, on behalf of the SEC, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Federal Reserve Board and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission dealing with central counterparties for over-the-counter credit default swaps. “The virtually-unregulated over-the-counter market in credit default swaps has played

Houston, Nov. 14 , 2008 – LawFuel – Graciela (Gracie) Guzman Saenz, a former Houston City Council member and former Mayor Pro Tem, joined Winstead PC as a shareholder, Nov. 1, 2008. She works in the firm’s Houston office, in the Government Relations Practice Group and she also is a member of the Public Finance