U.S. District Court Judge Sim Lake sentenced Skilling today at a hearing in Houston after listening to testimony of seven victims of the Enron fraud. A jury convicted Skilling, 52, in May on 19 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading after a four-month trial. He faced a range of 24 to 30 years in […]
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
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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
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As Google has grown into the world’s most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company, it has become entangled in scores of lawsuits touching on a wide range of legal questions, including copyright violation, trademark infringement and its method of ranking Web sites. Any company that is large and successful is going
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
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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
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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
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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.
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The lure of Dubai is attracing some of the biggest law firms in the world, with big fees on offer.
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Along Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road, construction cranes seem almost as plentiful as sand. Hotels and office buildings are going up by the dozen, and already some of the world’s most recognizable corporate names-CNN, Cisco Systems, and Microsoft-dot the landscape. There’s a billboard advertising “the most prestigious kilometer on the planet,” an extravagant new downtown project
