DALLAS (LAWFUEL) – A unique new advertising campaign and a signature community event have earned Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP double recognition in the prestigious Communicator Awards. The firm earned an Award of Distinction in the competition’s print advertising campaign category for its “They Call It/We Call It” series. The campaign illustrates Gardere’s ability to cut […]

(August 11, 2008, Philadelphia, PA) – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcement – Reed Smith LLP, one of the 15 largest law firms in the world, today announced the addition of Amy Greer as a partner in the Philadelphia office of its firmwide Regulatory Litigation Group, effective immediately. Ms. Greer is an experienced trial attorney who joins

LawFuel – Legal Announcements – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and MARK J. MERSHON, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that STEVEN BYERS, the President and Chief Executive Officer of WexTrust Capital, LLC, and JOSEPH

A Beverly Hills man who orchestrated a series of “bust-out” schemes in which several companies were taken over and their credit lines were exhausted was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison. Reza Bahram Tabatabai, 53, was sentenced by United States District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, who also ordered the defendant to pay $2,235,801 in

Online Moneymaking website <a href= KillerMoneyMakers.com has reviewed the developer of the GetGoogleAdsFree product, Dr Jon Cohen, by giving his new product, the ‘TopSecretCode’ a four-star rating. KillerMoneyMakers rates home-based income-earning products and is seen at http://www.killermoneymakers.com

Washington, D.C., Aug. 11, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The United States Securities and Exchange Commission today filed charges against Wextrust Capital, LLC (Wextrust), its principals, and four affiliated Wextrust entities, alleging that defendants conducted a massive Ponzi-type scheme from 2005 or earlier that raised approximately $255 million from approximately 1,200 investors. The targets of the fraudulent

Washington, D.C., Aug. 11, 2008 (LAWFUEL) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the distribution of more than $48 million to more than 12,000 investors who were victims of fraudulent financial reporting by media conglomerate Vivendi Universal, S.A. Investors receiving checks reside in the United States and in 15 other countries. More than half

Budapest, 11 August 2008 (LAWFUEL) – Oppenheim, one of Hungary’s leading law firms, has announced today that Simon Peter Benedek (41) joined Oppenheim as counsel. Benedek will be focusing his efforts at the firm on banking and finance. Before joining Oppenheim, Benedek was seconded to the Budapest office of the US law firm of White

Dubai – LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – The Bahrain based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) recently appointed Oliver Agha, Global Head of Islamic Finance at DLA Piper, one of the largest global law firm by number of lawyers, to its Accounting and Auditing Standards Board (AASB) and Auditing and Governance Standards