Finance Law

Last updated: January 20, 2012 4:00 pm By Ed Crooks

Journalists, law students and lawyers have asked hard questions recently about whether legal education should be reformed in light of the realities of today’s economy. After all, the degree is expensive, and legal jobs are less plentiful. Here is another wrinkle to consider: Many of the women who go to law school will find that [...]

Brian Hamlin INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — The registered sex offender who couldn’t be prosecuted for visiting a local school unannounced shows a breakdown in communication between those who write the laws and those who enforce them. Lawmakers, police and state attorneys described how they were compartmentalized and didn’t work together to ensure sex offenders obeyed [...]

By Jeff Ostrowski Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Post a Comment E-mail Print Larger Type Small Type Failures of Florida banks slowed in 2011, a welcome respite for the state’s financial industry and for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s beleaguered insurance fund. The number of failures of Florida-based banks peaked at 29 in 2010, then [...]

Enlarge image U.S. Steel Bonds Rebound to Par on Auto Sales Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg A worker welds steel sheets in Lebanon, New Jersey, U.S. A worker welds steel sheets in Lebanon, New Jersey, U.S. Photographer: Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg U.S. Steel Corp. (X), the nation’s biggest producer of the metal by volume, is making a comeback in debt [...]

<!– –> In the 45-year history of the College of Law at Arizona State University, only one professor has a room dedicated to his passion, English Legal History, in the basement of the Ross-Blakley Law Library. Only one is credited with construction of the “fire escape” on the north side of the library. Only one [...]

Across the country, more states are planting paths for school choice – from a charter school law in Maine to a sweeping voucher program in Indiana to the voucher-like empowerment scholarship accounts in Arizona. Those choices were in the forefront of a celebration Friday at Gilbert’s Edu-Prize School, one of Arizona’s first charter schools to [...]

Bank of America made $US2 billion ($1.92 billion) in the last three months of last year, reversing a loss from a year earlier. It offset legal expenses over mortgages and losses in its investment banking business by selling debt and its stake in a Chinese bank. The bank said it made 15 cents per share [...]

By Joe Palazzolo Tomorrow will mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. The justices voted 5-4 that corporations and unions had First Amendment rights to spend as they pleased to favor or oppose candidates. A lot has happened since then, including several legal challenges that have sought to [...]

NEWPORT BEACH, CA, Jan 20, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – PIMCO is pleased to announce the promotion of 23 to Executive Vice President, 47 to Senior Vice President and 83 to Vice President. “These PIMCO colleagues have contributed significantly to the firm’s success in serving our clients, and are an important part of its future,” [...]