Clifford Chance announced today that Carlos Conceicao is to join the firm as Director of Regulatory Enforcement. Currently, Carlos is head of the Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) Wholesale Group in Enforcement. He is recognized as a leading expert on regulatory issues affecting financial institutions with particular expertise in investigating and taking disciplinary action in cases […]

LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – LawFuel.com’s lead story from the UK ‘Lawyer’ looks at the Top 100 law firm survey. Clifford Chance and Linklaters took the top two spots in the Global 100, while Pinsents’ and Addleshaws’ debuts boost the UK firm total to sixteen. Big profit, though, remains largely a US game.

LAWFUEL – Legal News Network – Leading corporate commercial firm SJ Berwin LLP has advised the majority shareholders of Betty TV Group, Zurich, Munich on the takeover of Betty TV Group by Swisscom Fixnet AG. The further details of the takeover are confidential. Betty TV Group, which comprises companies in Zurich and Munich, develops and

LONDON, September 15, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – Results of the UK Legal 500 Survey for 2006 provide hard evidence that Baker Botts maintains a strong presence in its core practice areas in its London office. In the Oil & Gas, Arbitration and M&A Smaller Groups categories, the firm is recommended

Thomas McLain Joins Arnold & Porter’s Los Angeles Office Washington, D.C., September 12, 2006 – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – Arnold & Porter LLP announced that Thomas McLain has joined the Los Angeles office yesterday as a partner. Mr. McLain has extensive experience in handling major international transactions in a range of industries,

CHICAGO– LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs –Sept. 14, 2006–The international law firm Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP is pleased to announce the addition of partners Gary Jungels and Olga Loy. Mr. Jungels and Ms. Loy join the firm as partners in the Private Equity Practice from Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where they were

LAWFUEL – Law Jobs, Law News – LawFuel’s Hot Files – We guess Liza had no idea who her next Gest would be when she married David, but Mr Gest is now saying the most awful things about his talented ex. Like herpes? Alcohol and a bad attitude that include violence. Well, let’s hope Liza

SAN FRANCISCO – LAWFUEL – Law News & Law Jobs – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Valeriana Au, a/k/a Valerie Mok, of Novato, California, on September 12, 2006, on charges related to submitting false invoices to Customs and Border Protection in order to pay

Suit Alleges that Boys as Young as Two Years Old Were Abducted from Asia and Africa and Enslaved as Camel Jockeys MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. – (September 13, 2006) – LAWFUEL – Law Jobs & Law News Network – Motley Rice LLC, one of the largest plaintiffs’ law firms in the United States, in association with

SAN FRANCISCO– LAWFUEL – Law News, Law Jobs – United States Attorney Kevin V. Ryan announced that Jesse James Padua was sentenced on September 13, 2006, to 24 months in prison, one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay $204,155 in restitution. In pleading guilty on June 8, 2006, Mr. Padua, 47, of San