Finance Law

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said it is “unacceptable” that there’s no tax on financial transactions and said France “won’t wait for everyone to be agreed” before imposing the tax. “How can you explain that when you buy an apartment or go to the supermarket you pay tax, but that financial transactions are the only sort [...]

By Shamnad Basheer   When I decided to opt for a career in law, I was treated as an outcast by friends and family. Only those that didn’t make it to engineering, medicine or any of the other coveted professional courses chose law. And here I was, rejecting a fine engineering college for a not [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa — As the 2012 Iowa legislative session opens this week, each legislator is going to know all about the hopes for Kadyn’s Law. Kim Koenigs of Osage and Kadyn Halverson’s family — especially mom Kari — have made sure of it. They will all begin Monday to lobby for the law to increase [...]

Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS), Britain’s biggest government-owned bank, will this week announce plans to sell or close its global cash equities business, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The proposal will be unveiled by Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hester and John Hourican, head of the global banking and markets division, [...]

Scandal-hit Olympus said Sunday it was considering lodging law suits against current and former executives for damages caused by their decision to hide massive investment losses. The statement came after the firm’s in-house panel investigated the responsibility of its board members in the scandal that rocked the 92-year-old camera maker and undermined public trust in [...]

The four new Supreme Court justices appointed on Friday include an Iraqi-born Mizrahi Jew, a West Bank settler and a female member of the Tel Aviv University law faculty. Jerusalem District Court Judge Noam Sohlberg, a resident of the Gush Etzion settlement of Alon Shvut, was born in 1962 and grew up in Haifa, where [...]

INDIANAPOLIS — Students would have to complete a course outside the traditional classroom before graduating from high school, if state education chief Tony Bennett gets his way. Bennett, Indiana’s superintendent of public instruction, is urging the Indiana General Assembly to require the state’s high school students take at least one class online. It’s an idea [...]

<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 8–> » Representatives from Sammy Broussard Equipment Center, including Daniel Romero, recently attended Kubota Tractor Corp.’s 2011 National Dealer Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. The meeting gave dealers a chance to look at the latest Kubota products and equipment, take part in field demonstrations and classroom sessions and gain hands-on driving experience [...]

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GULFPORT, Fla., Jan. 3, 2012 — /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Christopher Pietruszkiewicz has been named the new dean of Stetson University College of Law in Tampa Bay, Fla. Pietruszkiewicz joins Stetson from the LSU Law Center at Louisiana State University, where he serves as vice chancellor for business and financial affairs and as the J.Y. Sanders Professor [...]