Austin, August 6, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Lawyer Newswire – Mary F. Keller has joined Texas law firm Winstead PC as a shareholder in the Business and Transactions Department – Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Keller will work in Winstead’s Austin Office supporting Winstead’s Insurance Industry Practice Group. Her practice will focus on insurance […]

Washington D.C., Aug. 6, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that Martin P. Dunn, Deputy Director of the Division of Corporation Finance, will leave the agency at the end of August to join O’Melveny & Myers LLP as a partner in its Washington D.C. office. Mr.

Chicago, August 6, 2007 – LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Baker & McKenzie LLP is pleased to announce that David Heroy, Carmen Lonstein and Bruce Lithgow joined the Firm’s North American Financial Restructuring, Creditors Rights & Bankruptcy practice as Partners in its Chicago office. Heroy, Lonstein and Lithgow are all nationally recognized practitioners in

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – A South Los Angeles man was sentenced this afternoon to 360 months in federal prison for allowing his brother to operate in his backyard the largest PCP lab ever discovered in the Southland. Bobby Lee Thompson, 40, was sentenced by United States District Judge Audrey B. Collins, who found

Washington, D.C. – LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – The FBI continues to provide support to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the State of Minnesota in the bridge collapse investigation in Minneapolis. The federal investigation is being led by the National Transportation Safety Board. The Minneapolis Field Office has provided Special Agents, its

SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 2007 LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire — Keller Rohrback L.L.P (www.erisafraud.com) today announced that it has commenced an investigation against Health Management Associates, Inc. (“HMA” or the “Company”) (NYSE:HMA) for potential violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). The investigation focuses on investments in HMA stock by the

London, August 6, 2007, 2007 – LAWFUEL – The Law Firm Newswire – Dewey Ballantine, a global law firm, announced today that Peter Magyar, a leading capital markets partner, will join the firm as a partner in its London office. Mr. Magyar, who will be Dewey Ballantine’s European head of capital markets, brings the number

LAWFUEL – The Legal Newswire – Bert Fingerhut was a top securities analyst on Wall Street who retired to Aspen at 40. Inspired by Peter Lynch’s “Beating The Street” he developed a new, winning system. Only problem is, as the WSJ reports, he was breaking the law. Read LawFuel.com – First with law news.

Defendant Will Never Again Prepare Professional Tax Returns SAN JOSE – LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – United States Attorney Scott N. Schools and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Scott O’Briant announced that San Jose tax preparer MELINDA NEWENS was sentenced to 24 months in prison for aiding and assisting in the preparation of