Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged registered broker-dealer Jefferies & Co., Inc., and two executives in connection with approximately $2 million worth of lavish gifts, extravagant travel and entertainment and other illegal gratuities given to win mutual fund trading business. Jefferies, its […]

(December 4, 2006, Washington, D.C.) – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Steptoe & Johnson LLP, a top international law firm, has announced that Washington attorney Michael C. Durst has joined the Firm’s tax group as Counsel in the Washington office, effective immediately. Mr. Durst is the former director of the Internal Revenue Service’s Advance

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network- New firm Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons came into being on 4 December after the merger of the South East’s largest regional firm and an established City firm. The merged firm has 105 partners and a total staff of more than 700, with offices in Southampton, Winchester, Oxford, Portsmouth,

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – This afternoon a federal grand jury in Denver returned an 18 count indictment, charging Kah Poh Cheah, age 28, of Thornton, Wai Chong Kong, age 38 of Highlands Ranch, and Kit Chi Ho, age 43 of Highlands Ranch, with a variety of crimes related to an interstate

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network- Linklaters has advised MEAG, the asset manager of Münchener Rück and the ERGO Insurance Group, on the sale of a portfolio of German commercial and residential properties valued at more than EUR1bn (£0.67bn). The portfolio’s commercial properties were purchased by Whitehall, a fund owned by US investment bank

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education ATLANTA–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network –The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in two cases involving the use of race as a factor in student assignment in K-12 public schools. Parents Involved in

MADISON, Wis. – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network -NavGate Technologies (www.NavGate.org), a pioneering industry leader and developer of technology-based care planning solutions for the whole family, has created a revolutionary new tool designed to help employees and employers address the significant problem of balancing care related work/family responsibilities. With the significant increase in

LawFuel.com’s Hot Files reports on the arrest of actor Rip Torn. Why is that publicists aren’t around when their charges get arrested? Rip Torn’s certainly wasn’t, but look at the poster-boy pic of the DWI arrestee, arrested on Monday in North Salem after an accident.

LawFuel.com’s Hot Files reports on the great news that Sara Evans can continue to sing with her current divorce woes and she performed a magnificent anthem at the Indianapolis Colts/Tennessee Titans game at LP Field in Nashville. Evans, you’ll recall, filed for divorce last month in a Williamson County, Tenn., courtroom from Craig Schelske, her

Announces Distribution Agreement with Watson Pharmaceuticals for Authorized Generic of Oxandrin® EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J.–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network –Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: SVNT) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, a Novartis Pharmaceuticals company (NYSE: NVS), and Upsher-Smith