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Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:11pm EDT

Metropolitan News-Enterprise   Tuesday, June 12, 2012   Page 1   Southwestern Law School Names Parrish Interim Dean   By KENNETH OFGANG, Staff Writer   Southwestern Law School has named Vice Dean and Professor of Law Austen Parrish as interim dean, effective July 1. Parrish, who practiced at OMelveny Myers before becoming a full-time professor, [...]

The Bronx district attorney, Robert T. Johnson, set up a special hot line on Tuesday for former students to report episodes of sexual misconduct. He has acknowledged that cases may not fall within the statute of limitations, a situation that would prevent a criminal prosecution. Mr. Johnson has added that it is not clear whether [...]

BEIJING — Chinese banks picked up the pace of lending in May in an effort to bolster the world’s second-largest economy, where worries are growing about a sharper-than-expected slowdown. Lending institutions exceeded many analysts’ expectations by issuing a robust $124.5 billion in new loans last month, up from $107 billion in April, China’s central bank [...]

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, Jun 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) – Analysts International Corporation (AIC) /quotes/zigman/117141/quotes/nls/anly ANLY +3.07% , an information technology services company, today announced that it has appointed Lynn L. Blake, 45, as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective July 2, 2012. Blake replaces William R. Wolff who is leaving the company to [...]

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In a mobile phone video filmed at a Houston high school this April, dozens of students gather in a stairwell to watch a fight. They stand by as a girl, armed with a sock that has a combination lock in the toe, viciously beats another girl to the point that she will later have multiple [...]

A banking union might address one of the causes of the euro crisis: the tendency for sick banks to undermine entire countries. The costs of taxpayer-financed bailouts in Ireland and Spain, among other countries, were so large that they raised questions about the creditworthiness of national governments. Such a union would also allow euro zone [...]

Daruma Corporate Finance, an Istanbul-based investment adviser, and Madrid-based investment bank and asset manager N+1 International set up a partnership to raise as much as 1 billion euros ($1.25 billion) of private equity funds. N+1, which has about 3.1 billion euros of assets under management, and Daruma will use the funds to invest in Turkish [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Ivan Milosevic, an LL.M. Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2012, is the author of the eleventh entry in a 14-part series from the LL.M. students of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He dissects the history of the former Yugoslavia in an effort to explain [...]