LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MIAMI – January 8, 2008 – Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that prominent immigration and corporate lawyer Brian Garcia has joined the firm’s Miami office as a partner in the International & Cross Border Transactions Practice Group. Previously he was a shareholder with Akerman Senterfitt, where he […]

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 2008 – The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) today announced terms for increased cooperation and collaboration. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox and SEBI Chairman M. Damodaran elaborated the terms establishing the structure of, and agenda for, an SEC-SEBI

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – London – DLA Piper UK LLP is delighted to announce the appointment of leading international trade lawyer, Claudia Orozco. Claudia, a World Trade Organisation (WTO) specialist, brings vast experience to the team derived from her time in private practice and the six years she served as a Minister Counsellor

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Continuing the firm’s European expansion, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) has opened an office in Paris, France. The new Paris location, which is poised for immediate growth, complements K&L Gates’ significant London presence and growing Berlin office, which the firm established in January 2007. With

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Washington, D.C., Jan. 9, 2008 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Mary S. Head has been named Assistant Director, Policy in the Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA). The appointment of Ms. Head, who previously served as counsel to SEC Commissioner Kathleen L. Casey, continues

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, and Julie L. Myers, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, announced today that on January 8, 2008, defendants Randy Charles Harris, 37, and Salvador Pascual

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – MICHAEL J. GARCIA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN McCALLUM, JR. was sentenced today to 20 years’ imprisonment for distributing crack cocaine, and conspiring to do so, in the Spring Valley area in 2004 and 2005. The sentence was imposed by

9 January 2008 LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – International law firm, Pinsent Masons, is the first law firm to be listed on Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index, which showcases Britain’s top 100 employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. The 2008 index also named Pinsent Masons as Most Improved Employer, following a year of initiatives aimed

NEW YORK – LAWFUEL – Attorney Announcements – January 9, 2008 – Holland & Knight is pleased to announce that Justice Joseph P. Sullivan has become Of Counsel to the firm’s New York office. A former Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, in New York City, he stepped down as an Associate

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – A Colombian citizen pled guilty today to a 16-count indictment involving a complex computer fraud scheme victimizing over 600 people, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta for the Southern District of Florida and U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service