Los Angeles, California – LAWFUEL – The United States Department of Justice and the IRS Criminal Investigation Division announced today that United States District Court Judge Audrey B. Collins sentenced a former officer of First Mountain Bank to serve a term of incarceration in federal prison followed by a period of supervised release. On September

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Chris Steskal to head Fenwick’s white collar practice January 22, 2007 (Mountain View and San Francisco, CA) – Fenwick & West LLP is pleased to announce that Christopher J. Steskal is joining the firm as a partner in the Securities Litigation Group, and as the Chair of its White Collar/Regulatory Practice

Sheffield – LAWFUEL – DLA Piper’s Sheffield office is to play host to delegates from the US, Russia, Denmark and other UK cities, for an event that will see key players in the global carbon trading market giving advice to local companies. The event, to be staged on Thursday 8 February, the day after DLA

LAWFUEL – Paul McCartney Divorce – Paris Hilton, Sara Evans and other law news – Former Beatle Paul McCartney’s divorce settlement sees his former wife which Heather Mills walk off with a cash and property settlement worth £32,000,000 or $63,176,960 – about three percent of the pop star’s fortune, reportedly estimated to total about $1.6

LAWFUEL – US Legal News – “The actions overnight by the Mexican government are unprecedented in their scope and importance. Never before has the United States received from Mexico such a large number of major drug defendants and other criminals for prosecution in this country, including Osiel Cardenas Guillen, the accused chief of the notorious

Los Angeles, CA— LAWFUEL – US Law News – Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) welcomes Fred D. Heather as a partner in the firm’s litigation and white collar/criminal defense practice. Heather comes to K&L Gates from DLA Piper. Prior to his tenure there, Heather was an assistant U.S. Attorney with the

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Following a two-week jury trial, a firefighter with the Orange County Fire Authority was convicted today of receiving child pornography over the Internet and possessing multiple images of child pornography, including images depicting bestiality and bondage. Tyrone A. Ganoe, 42, of Norwalk, was arrested last January after a law

Firm Announces Recipients of Annual Awards Totaling $45,000 CHICAGO – LAWFUEL – Foley & Lardner LLP continues to demonstrate its commitment to diversity in the legal community through this year’s Minority Scholarship Program. The program, now in its eighth year, has awarded nearly $400,000 in scholarships to first-year minority law students in an effort to

DENVER -LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – This past weekend two Mexican nationals, Miguel Angel Arriola Marquez and Saul Saucedo Chaides, were extradicted by Mexican authorities to the United States. Their extradition was based on an indictment obtained by a federal grand jury in Denver in 2003 for their involvement in a very large scale