Friday 3 November 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – Mr James Alexander Scott, of Mentone, Victoria, has pleaded guilty in the County Court of Victoria to one count of carrying on a financial services business without holding an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) and 15 counts of dishonest conduct in relation to

Friday 3 November 2006 LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – Brisbane liquidator, Mr Peter Anthony Lucas, of P.A. Lucas & Co Chartered Accountants, has been reprimanded by the Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board (CALDB) following an application brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Lucas’ reprimand follows the CALDB’s finding

Addition of Sean Berkowitz, lead prosecutor of Enron executives, further strengthens Latham litigation team Chicago, November 2, 2006 LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs …Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that Sean M. Berkowitz has joined the firm’s Chicago office as a partner in the Litigation Department, effective November 1, 2006. Immediately prior

LAWFUEL – Law Firm News – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office (“FBI”), and Brian J. Wimpling, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS”), announced that defendant, William R. Boose, III,

LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs – R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Rear Admiral David W. Kunkel, United States Coast Guard, and John Beutlich, Director of Air Operations, Office of Air and Marine, Paul Blocker, Chief of United States Customs and Border Protection, Office of Border Patrol, announced

Scotland – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – DLA Piper Scotland LLP has advised the management team on the Phoenix Equity Partners £125m buy-in of Aberdeen based oil and gas services company, Asco Group plc. The deal is said to be one of the largest buy-out deals in Scotland this year. Phoenix Equity

CLEVELAND- LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – For a book that only a lawyer could love, ranking 47,369th on Amazon.com’s best-seller list looked pretty good Monday morning. “It was doing way better than my treatise on consolidating state court litigation,” said Cleveland-based Jones Day partner Mark Herrmann, author of “The Curmudgeon’s Guide to

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