Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Law Business Insider

Steve Murphy, Executive Producer & Host of the nationally syndicated radio Show, The LawBusiness Insider, www.lbishow.com, features well known Wall Street Insider and Bestselling Author Norb Vonnegut discussing his latest bestseller, "Gods of Greenwich", and KQED Public Radio Editor and Bestselling author Tyche Hendricks and her vivid, evocative new book, "The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport"

Publishers Weekly proclaims....“Vonnegut, a financial professional himself, not only gets the language and tone of Wall Street right but has an instinctive feel for dialogue and action. Especially enjoyable is the rip-roaring finale at the Bronx Zoo.”

"The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands", by award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks, was published by the University of California Press in June 2010. Hendricks, a veteran immigration reporter, shows that decisions about how we handle the border and immigration have wide-ranging implications.

Please tune in and listen to these important and exciting interviews
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2 charged with insider trading involving law firms

Federal authorities have charged two men with running an insider trading scheme that netted more than $30 million with information stolen from law firms.

Garrett Bauer is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday afternoon. Matthew Kluger will make his first appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

They're accused of trading on inside information stolen from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

Authorities also allege the decades-long scheme used information stolen from prominent New York law firms Cravath Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

State regulators say two companies have been fined $15,000 each violating Mississippi's No-Call Law

Public Service Commission member Brandon Presley says Full Speed Funding LLC of Phoenix and Gateway Destinations Inc. of Pompano Beach, Fla., failed to register and purchase the state's "No-Call" list and contacted consumers who had registered on the "No-Call" list.

Presley says company representatives failed to respond to the PSC complaint.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Fixodent The Subject Of Class Action Lawsuit

A class action lawsuit is alleging that Fixodent denture cream may have caused serious problems.

ABC News reported that lawyers for two former denture cream users are accusing Proctor & Gamble of manufacturing a product that made their clients extremely ill.

Mark Jacoby, a 41-year-old construction worker who wore dentures for 20 years, told ABC News that he believes his debilitating neurological illness is due to the high zinc content in his Fixodent.

"I started getting tingling in my fingertips. And then it started happening in my toes," he told ABC News' 20/20 anchor Chris Cuomo, who is the Chief of the Law & Justice Unit. "I started getting weaker and, you know, I couldn't walk right, off balance and I'm at this point now."

He said his doctors searched for years for the cause of his debilitating neurological illness that robbed him of his independence.

Court rejects bid to remove judge in Pitino case

A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to remove the judge overseeing the case of a woman convicted of trying to extort millions from University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino.

The two-page decision issued Monday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals also turned down a request by Karen Cunagin Sypher to delay her sentencing, which is set for Feb. 18.

Sypher was convicted in August of extortion, lying to the FBI and retaliation against a witness. Prosecutors said she sought millions in cash, cars and a house from Pitino to stay quiet about their one-night stand at a Louisville restaurant in 2003.

Her attorney, David Nolan, has filed multiple motions alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy involving Pitino, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III and multiple people involved in the case. Prosecutors have called Sypher's claims meritless.