Maryland’s former Lieutenant Governor to further strengthen the firm’s Washington, DC presence WASHINGTON– LAWFUEL – Law Newswire –LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP is pleased to announce that Michael Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, will join the firm as a partner. Based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, he will focus on corporate […]

LAWFUEL – IRS Law Newswire – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Charles E. Hunter, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Miami Field Office, announce today that the owner of a tax preparation service in South Florida was indicted by a federal grand jury

LAWFUEL – Legal Newswire – DLA Piper today announced that it has recruited three highly experienced Islamic finance lawyers to join its Islamic finance practice in Dubai. The lawyers, Abdulaziz Al Bosaily, Adil Hussain and Saqib Awan will work with Oliver Agha, who joined DLA Piper in February as Global Head of Islamic Finance. The

Friday 13 April 2007 LAWFUEL – Australia Law Newswire – Melbourne sharetrader, Mr Peter Robert Woodland, will stand trial in the County Court of Victoria after pleading not guilty yesterday to 17 counts of insider trading brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Woodland, of Frankston, Victoria, was committed to stand trial

April 13th, 2007 – lawjobspipeline.com/blog2 – Law jobs at London’s office of mega firm Clifford Chance just became more attractive with a 15 per cent boost in income. A Clifford Chance lawyer with three-and-a-half years’ experience will see his or her salary increase from £81,000 to £89,000. Those with one year’s post qualification experience will

LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – A Southern California woman was charged this afternoon in a federal criminal complaint that alleges she stole the identities of hundreds of deceased people and used their personal information to file fraudulent federal tax returns that sought more than $1 million in refunds. Uzeegoa Makeba Sayles, 39, of Hawthorne, allegedly

LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – A former Social Security Administration employee surrendered yesterday to face federal charges of illegally disclosing personal information that she took from a government computer and that was used by others to commit identity theft and to rack up approximately $2.5 million in credit card charges. Jennifer Batiste, 45, of Leimert

See LawFuel.com’s ‘Hot Gossip’ – Clifford Chance has well over 600 partners worldwide – so how did a light bulb quell the mega-firm’s Moscow presence. Are there whiffs of conspiracy or plutonium on anyone’s breath over there? What, le Carre-like goings-on have made the firm’s exploding lightbulb cause it to move from its near-new offices

LAWFUEL – Lawyer Newswire – International law firm Clifford Chance LLP has announced the promotion of 38 lawyers to the partnership, including the promotion of four partners to the firm’s Asian arm from its 28-office global network, effective 1 May 2007. Clifford Chance Managing Partner David Childs commented: “We are delighted to admit 38 lawyers

Philadelphia, PA, April 9, 2007– LAWFUEL – Law Firm Newswire – Michael S. Harrington, Esq. , was recently selected to serve as Co-Chair of the Corporate Department of Fox Rothschild LLP. Harrington will serve as Co-Chair along with Michael J. Kline, Esq., who has chaired the Corporate Department for the last seven years. Harrington joined