SANTA ANA, California – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – Two Egyptian nationals who enslaved a 10-year-old girl and forced her to work as a domestic servant at their Orange County residence were both sentenced this morning. Abdel Nasser Youssef Ibrahim, 57, was sentenced to 36 months, and his ex-wife, Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd El Motelib, […]

Jeffrey Skilling’s claims of innocence saw him draw a 24.3 year prison term. His claims of innocence before, during and even after his trial, insisting no fraud occurred at Enron other than that committed by a few executives skimming millions in secret side deals, and that bad press and poor market confidence combined to sink

LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs Network – Pursuing a Holistic Approach to Gang Prevention: Building a Link between Law Enforcement and Community Groups WHO: The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the ATF for the Northern District of California will be sponsoring the Northern California Gang Prevention Summit. Speakers include: U.S. Attorney Kevin V. Ryan, Introductions

LAWFUEL – Law News Network – A Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer team, led by corporate partner Matthew Cosans and senior corporate associate Chris Lester, acted for Deutsche Bank in connection with the agreed acquisition of Tilney Investment Management, the UK based fund manager, announced today. The same Freshfields team has advised Deutsche Bank on other asset

When Real Laws Meet Virtual People By James Ottavio Castagnera (Jim Castagnera, a Philadelphia lawyer and writer, is the Associate Provost/Associate Counsel at Rider University, Princeton/Lawrenceville, USA) In his 1997 novel, “Idoru,” sci-fi writer William Gibson postulates a pending marriage between a real-life rock star and a virtual vamp. The bride is an “idol-singer” or

Partner of Former Openly Gay Congressman Gerry Studds Denied Spousal Benefits WEST HOLLYWOOD–LAWFUEL – Law News Network –West Hollywood City Councilmember Jeffrey Prang publicly condemned the federal policy that denied pension benefits to the husband of former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-MA). Councilmember Prang said, “It is an outrage that the only three conditions in which

LOS ANGELES – LAWFUEL – Law News Network – The following UCLA School of Law professor is available for interviews regarding the guilty verdict of George Weller, the 89-year-old man whose car tore through a Santa Monica, Calif., farmers market, killing 10 people and injuring 63 others. He was accused of 10 counts of vehicular

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Skadden is representing Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. in its approximately $8 billion merger with CBOT Holdings, Inc. to form the world’s largest financial market.