Finance Law

TEMPE, Ariz., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – US Airways, Inc. (“US Airways” or the “Company”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of US Airways Group, Inc. /quotes/zigman/390962/quotes/nls/lcc LCC -0.48% (“US Airways Group”), announced today that it priced two offerings of enhanced equipment trust certificates (the “Certificates”) in the aggregate face amount of approximately $623 million. The [...]

Eastern New Mexico University student Robert Johnston was one out of 25 college students across the nation selected to be an intern at the Chicago-Kent College of Law this summer. The 19-year-old will be leaving New Mexico in June to get a taste of law school and will be studying an array of legal topics, [...]

Today, lawmakers are struggling mightily to bring the current legislative session to an end. While they do so, let’s take a look ahead to next year’s session. When the 2013-2014 Legislature convenes next year, among other pro-business measures we are likely to see a push for the further expansion of for-profit online schools, laws allowing [...]

Federal and local authorities are investigating a bank robbery that occurred this morning on St. Charles Avenue in the Central Business District.  A young man in a bucket, safari-type hat robbed the Chase Bank at 201 St. Charles Ave. shortly after noon today, according to a FBI news release. The man entered the bank and [...]

OLD GREENWICH, Conn., April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Ellington Financial LLC /quotes/zigman/1526607/quotes/nls/efc EFC +0.45% (the “Company”) today announced that it will release financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 after the market close on Monday, May 7, 2012. The Company will host a conference call to discuss its financial results at [...]

Hastings Law dean Frank Wu The University of California Hastings College of the Law will reduce enrollment by 240 students over the next three years — a 20 percent decrease. Administrators cast the move as an acknowledgement that legal academia has become bloated. The move represents one of the most drastic attempts by any law [...]

Posted: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:32 pm School systems scheduled to destroy records of special education students 0 comments Area school systems will destroy special education records that are no longer needed. Records collected by Albertville City and Marshall County school systems related to the identification, evaluation, educational placement or the provision of Special Education in [...]

COLUMBUS, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Synovus Financial Corp. (NYSE – “SNV”), the Columbus, Georgia-based financial services company, today announced the selection of Sean Simpson as Business Banking Group Executive. Simpson will direct the company’s Business Banking activities and guide the development of enterprise-specific Relationship and Client Banking programs across the Synovus footprint. “Sean’s long record of successful [...]

SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Gen-Probe Incorporated /quotes/zigman/88003/quotes/nls/gpro GPRO +18.68% today reported financial results for the first quarter of 2012, highlighted by total revenues of $153.4 million and non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55. “Gen-Probe is off to a strong start in 2012 driven by the continued growth of our [...]

Former Pres­i­dent Abraham Lin­coln once referred to intel­lec­tual prop­erty as “adding the fuel of interest to the fire of genius.” But according to Susan Bar­bieri Mont­gomery, exec­u­tive pro­fessor of law and busi­ness at North­eastern, most people aren’t familiar with the remainder of this quote, which con­tinues, “in the dis­covery and pro­duc­tion of new and useful things.” [...]