12 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Nicholas Lee Jacobsen, 22, pleaded guilty this morning in United States District Court in Los Angeles to gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer and recklessly causing at least $5,000 in loss to one or more victims, including T-Mobile, Inc., a telecommunications company. Jacobsen, […]

A British Columbia man has been sentenced to eight years in a United States prison for operating a Canada-based telemarketing scam that took in more than $7 million from American senior citizens. Timothy Ryan Babuin, 30, of Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, was sentenced in Los Angeles federal court yesterday by United States District Judge Dean

15 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Allen & Overy has advised arrangers Barclays Capital, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch on the establishment of Northern Rock plc’s £20 billion Mortgage Backed Note Programme, Granite Master Issuer plc. The SEC registered deal was the first UK securitisation to obtain a shelf registration in

16 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Marcos Daniel Jiménez, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Linda S. Little, Special Agent in Charge, Office of the Inspector General, United States Department of Health and Human Services; and Michael S. Clemens, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

GREAT FALLS, Va.—Feb. 15, 2005- LAWFUEL – The Law News Network -The results are in as LitWatch releases its most recent compilation of the race to the courthouse by the busiest securities fraud class action law firms in the country. Overall, 18 plaintiffs’ firms made the list. In the race to be first, the top

15 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Global law firm Clifford Chance has announced the appointment of four senior associates to the firm’s China Corporate practice group. Justin Wilson joins the firm’s Corporate practice in Beijing, having been admitted in London in 1996. He has practised in London and more recently,

SEATTLE, Feb. 15 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – The Law Firm of Klayman & Toskes, P.A. (“K&T”)( http://www.nasd-law.com ), representing numerous Microsoft, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSFT) Employee Stock Option Plan (“ESOP”) participants in securities arbitration lawsuits, continues to pursue claims on behalf of Microsoft employees after receiving favorable arbitration decisions. K&T has

WASHINGTON, DC, February 3, 2005. Following twelve months of independent research carried out by Legal Media Group, LMG has announced that DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary has more lawyers considered by clients to be experts in real estate law than any other firm in the world. The results of the research are published in the

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Feb. 14 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – Dr. Gunter Burghardt, having just completed a successful five-year term in Washington, D.C. as head of the European Commission delegation to the US, announced today he is joining the Brussels office of international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP. “Ambassador

14 February 2005 – LAWFUEL – The Law News Network – On February 10, Maria Vullo testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the pending bankruptcy reform bill and specifically an amendment that would make judgments under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act nondischargeable in bankruptcy. This was the second time that Maria