Kilpatrick Stockton announced today the election of Simela Karasavidis to its partnership. Ms. Karasavidis, who joined the firm’s London office in 2003, assumed partnership status on 1 January 2005. This announcement comes just weeks after the high-profile additions to the London office of Helen Newman, Partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, and Mary O’Connor, […]

11 January 2004 – LAWFUEL – The law news network – A Mission Viejo man pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal fraud and money laundering charges for running a telecommunications company that purported to sell investments in adult-entertainment pay-per-call telephone lines, but was in fact a Ponzi scheme that collected more than $4.9 million from

11 January 2004 – LAWFUEL – The law news network – Allen & Overy has advised Všeobecná úverová banka, a.s. (VUB), the second largest Slovak bank, owned by Italy’s Gruppo Banca Intesa, on its acquisition of five Slovak consumer credit companies. The five companies acquired were TatraCredit, Quatro, Q-Car, Slovenská požičovňa and Slovenske kreditne karty.

ATLANTA, Jan. 10 2004 – LAWFUEL – The law news network — The law firm of Powell Goldstein LLP announced today that Simon H. Bloom, an associate at the Firm has been appointed to the state’s Commission for Service and Volunteerism. Bloom is president-elect of the West End Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs

11 January 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – A woman who mailed threats, including envelopes that purportedly contained anthrax, to a Boeing facility in Long Beach, California, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for sending threatening communications. Deborah Cox, 40, of Bellflower, was sentenced Friday afternoon by United States

Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – The Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange today announced the institution and settlement of enforcement proceedings against Southwest Securities, Inc., a Dallas, Texas based broker-dealer and investment adviser, and three of its managers. According to the SEC and

AUSTIN – January 11 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP has reached an agreement to provide legislative and regulatory services to the American Diabetes Association (ADA) on a pro bono basis during the 79th Regular Session of the Texas Legislature. An experienced group of attorneys from the firm’s

Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – The Securities and Exchange Commission today brought and settled civil fraud charges against Thom Calandra, a former columnist for the Internet website CBS MarketWatch.com. The Commission alleges that Calandra profited by secretly selling stocks shortly after his investment newsletter’s positive recommendations of

9 January 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – The Securities and Exchange Commission today submitted a civil complaint for filing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia against PurchasePro’s founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Charles Johnson, Jr., two other former executives of PurchasePro.com Inc. (“PurchasePro”) – Chris

9 January 2004 – LAWFUEL – Best for law news – A former assistant administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently obtain money from a client who had hired her San Diego County company to assist in the clean-up