Finance Law

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)–Treasury bonds slipped Thursday as investors took some chips off the table from a recent rally. Yet the U.S. sold $29 billion in seven-year notes at a record-low yield, indicating that investors remain skittish over financial market disruptions if Greece exits the euro or if other peripheral European nations see additional stress [...]

Friday, May 25, 2012 CAGAYAN DE ORO Representative Rufus Rodriguez was conferred Thursday with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) by the University of Negros Occidental Recoletos-Bacolod (UNO-R). Rodriguez was a former dean of the College of Law of San Sebastian College Manila and a Hermano General (Brother of the Order) of [...]

According to New Mexico Democratic congressional candidate Eric Griego, “If you break the law, you should go to jail. Even if you’re a Wall Street Banker.” But his rule seems not to apply to traffic laws. A Griego campaign mailer attacks the “predatory lending.” of Wall Street bankers. “No one should be above the law,” it says. [...]

LEXINGTON, Ky., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ – SIS, a leading regional provider of Enterprise Class IT Solutions and Services recently secured a $5 million credit facility with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo Company /quotes/zigman/239557/quotes/nls/wfc WFC +0.22% . The credit facility plays a critical role in SIS executing against its aggressive [...]

The administrator responsible for Harvard Law School’s faculty diversity statistics from 1996 to 2004, the period in question, was Alan Ray, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation who, like Warren, has fair skin, blue eyes, and Oklahoma roots.

U.S. banks may be getting far more leverage out of dividends and acquisitions than share repurchases, according to Daryl Bible, the chief financial officer of North Carolina-based bank BBT Corp. The bank, which raised its dividend by 25% in March, is actively trying to market itself to institutional investors BBT BBT Chief Financial Officer Daryl [...]

MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) – A Long Island high school student says school officials have lifted her suspension for creating an anti-bullying video and Facebook page featuring a fictitious suicide. Newsday (http://bit.ly/JG7U6l ) reports that 15-year-old Jessica Barba and her parents met with Longwood High School officials on Thursday morning. The teen says she shot [...]

McDonald’s Corp. (MCD) (MCD), whose shares have fallen 8 percent this year as sales growth decelerated, is finding more success in the bond market. The world’s biggest restaurant chain issued $400 million of 1.875 percent, seven-year debt yesterday to equal the coupon higher-rated International Business Machines Corp. paid on $600 million of similar-maturity bonds May [...]

Last month, we solicited law school success stories from you, our readers. We’re often quite critical of law schools around these parts. So, to even out the scales a bit, we’re going to be running a series of happy stories, focused on graduates who are glad they went to law school. We’ve tried to organize [...]

Today, Longwood High School freshman, Jessica Barba, was allowed back to school. This comes after a five day suspension over an anti-bullying class project. Barba wrote, edited and starred in an anti-bullying video project by playing a fictitious character, Hailey Bennett, and even created a fake Facebook page. The Bennet character was tormented and cyber-bullied [...]