Finance Law

The changes, which will eliminate about one-fifth of the automaker’s pension obligations, are intended in part to increase its appeal to investors. Everyone affected by the change is already retired, and many will be able to spend the money without rolling it over into another retirement account, as long as they pay the appropriate taxes. [...]

THE economics of legal education are broken. The problem is that the cost of a law degree is now vastly out of proportion to the economic opportunities obtained by the majority of graduates. The average debt of law graduates tops $100,000, and most new lawyers do not earn salaries sufficient to make the monthly payments [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The mere passage of a law that requires drug companies to disclose how much money they pay doctors may not change physician prescribing practices, suggests a new study. In two states that passed so-called sunshine laws requiring drugmakers to disclose payments, doctors’ choices of which drugs to prescribe for their [...]

By Andrea Hopkins (Reuters) – Wealth management wasn’t a big money-maker for Canadian banks this quarter as slumping financial markets kept investors on the sidelines, the second straight gloomy performance by a segment most banks view as a future cash cow. Assets under management inched higher in the quarter ended April 30 as the banks [...]

NOT FOR RELEASE, DISTRIBUTION OR PUBLICATION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES ***** Guernsey, 1 June 2012 – Volta Finance Limited (the “Company” or “Volta Finance” or “Volta”) has published its Interim Management Statement. The full report is attached to this release and is available on Volta Finance Limited’s financial [...]

By Jason Rantanen Two announcements today from the University of Indiana McKinney School of Law.  The first is about IU’s candidate search to fill its new IP Chair; the second is for a Junior Faculty Workshop on Intellectual Property Issues in the Pharmaceutical Industry that IU will hold in December 2012. Endowed Chair in Intellectual [...]

To: HEALTH AND NATIONAL EDITORS McLEAN, Va., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — “One thing is clear,” said Nancy Sander, president and founder of Allergy Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), “breathing is bipartisan. Families and schoolchildren with asthma and anaphylaxis are fortunate that state legislators are changing laws and instituting new policies to eliminate needless [...]

By Louise Egan OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada may signal on Tuesday that it is more reluctant to raise interest rates than it was seven weeks ago, without completely reversing its message that Canadians should start preparing for higher borrowing costs down the road. In its last rate announcement on April 17, the [...]

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., Jun 01, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Pall Corporation /quotes/zigman/237641/quotes/nls/pll PLL -0.88% announced today that R. Brent Jones has joined the Long Island-based filtration, separation and purification company as VP of Finance. In this new role, Mr. Jones will assume responsibility for Investor Relations, Treasury, and Corporate Financial Planning. In this capacity, Mr. [...]

Erlend M. Leonhardsen is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Dag Sørlie Lund is an associate lawyer at Steenstrup Stordrange Law Firm in Oslo. ”’Our Aim is One Europe’. That was the bold statement made by the countries joining the EU in the 2004 eastern enlargement. The recent [...]