Finance Law

SANTA MONICA, Calif., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – Entravision Communications Corporation /quotes/zigman/264940/quotes/nls/evc EVC +2.80% today reported financial results for the three-month period ended March 31, 2012. Historical results, which are attached, are in thousands of U.S. dollars (except share and per share data). This press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures as defined [...]

Legal education has been slow to move to online classes, and the new master’s program is perhaps the earliest partnership between a top-tier law school and a commercial enterprise. “We don’t know where the students are going to come from exactly, but we believe there is demand abroad for an online program with the same [...]

LAS VEGAS — The high number of deaths on Clark County roads is perplexing to Nevada leaders who want to fix the problem. Is the answer new laws? Will that make drivers and pedestrians pay more attention? Las Vegas Near Top of List for Pedestrian Deaths People are getting killed on Las Vegas valley roads [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — More than 200,000 letters from Bank of America will begin landing in homeowners’ mailboxes this week, the bank said Tuesday, offering principal reduction as part of the $25 billion mortgage settlement announced in February. It’s one of the bank’s first steps in the agreement between state attorneys general, federal agencies and the [...]

ATHENS, GREECE, May 08, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – Safe Bulkers, Inc. (the “Company”) /quotes/zigman/512899/quotes/nls/sb SB +0.47% , an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, announced today its unaudited financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. The Company’s Board of Directors also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share for the [...]

BOSTON – Senator Scott P. Brown on Tuesday asked Elizabeth Warren, his likely Democratic opponent, to publicly release her applications to law schools and personnel files from the universities where she has taught. He cited “legitimate questions” about whether Ms. Warren had claimed American Indian heritage as a way to advance her academic career. The [...]

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO (KFVS) – Federal policy makers visited southeast Missouri law enforcement to see if they can mimic local laws. Laws limiting the purchase of pseudoephedrine all over southeast Missouri are proving successful, and have attracted the attention of lawmakers in Washington. Officials from the U.S. Government Accountability office talked to local authorities about [...]

Nomura Holdings Inc. (8604), Japan’s largest brokerage, plans to almost triple the number of senior executives in its Americas investment-banking division as competitors retrench. The unit expects to have about 100 managing and executive directors within three to five years, up from 38 now, James DeNaut, head of investment banking for the Americas, said in [...]

OLD GREENWICH, Conn., May 7, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Ellington Financial LLC (NYSE: EFC) (the “Company”) today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a first quarter 2012 dividend of $0.70 per share, payable on June 15, 2012 to shareholders of record as of June 1, 2012(1). Subject to the ultimate discretion of the [...]

Washington University School of Law announced it will begin offering its Master of Laws in U.S. Law for Foreign Lawyers (LLM) in a new and innovative online format. Called @WashULaw, the program is the first and only top-tier online LLM in U.S. law. The online LLM builds on the law school’s internationally recognized postgraduate law [...]