LawFuel.com’s Hot Files reports on Freshfields’ issues with the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. If there’s one, tiny thing that law firms don’t like it’s having their systems, procedures and – dare we say it – failings disclosed for all to see. So when Barry O’Brien and Tim Jones stand before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) to […]

NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, one of the world’s leading international law firms, announced that Jodi L. Avergun, the former Chief of Staff of the Drug Enforcement Administration, has joined the firm as Special Counsel in the Business Fraud group of the Litigation Department, resident in the Washington

Los Angeles, CA – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The owner of Pacific States Logistics Management, Inc. of Long Beach, California was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison, followed by 36 months of supervised release, for wire fraud and tax evasion by United States District Judge A. Howard Matz in Los Angeles.

Firm Elects 14 Partners, Appoints Three Senior Counsel Across Range of Practice Groups and Offices NEW YORK–LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with more than 700 lawyers in the United States and Europe, announced that it has promoted 14 attorneys to partner and three to senior counsel. “It

Washington, D.C., Nov. 15, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that 1st Global Capital Corp., a Dallas broker-dealer, will pay a $100,000 penalty and consent to findings that it made unsuitable recommendations and sales of units of tax-advantaged qualified tuition savings plans, commonly known

Professor William Garner Agrees to Recommended Sentence of 63 Months Imprisonment, $12,500 Fine, and $50,000 Restitution SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Dr. William T. Garner was charged today and has agreed to plead guilty to possessing child pornography. This charge is

New York, NY (November 10, 2006) – Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP (Paul Hastings), a leading international law firm, is pleased to announce today that sixteen lawyers, representing all five departments and all of our geographic regions, have been elected to the firm partnership. Their election is effective February 1, 2007. “We have elected

COQUITLAM, BC, Nov. 15 LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Western Wind Energy is pleased to announce that it will launch a series of countersuits against Pacific Hydro Limited of Australia seeking compensation and damages in excess of $1 billion. Pacific Hydro had acquired by January 27, 2006, 6 million common shares of Western Wind