Finance Law

INVEST Financial Corporation ® (INVEST) today announced it will provide brokerage and investment services for ORNL Federal Credit Union, based in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Established in 1948, members of ORNL Federal Credit Union account for more than $1.4 billion in assets. “We are pleased to welcome ORNL Federal Credit Union into our growing network of [...]

ANALYSIS The law is pretty clear on a lawyer’s ethical duty when he makes statements regarding his clients. The lawyer may neither divulge confidences nor make statements adverse to the client’s interests. Wes Oliver is a professor at Widener University who teaches criminal law and procedure. This fall he will join the faculty of the [...]

[+] Enlarge.   -  Among the things Gov. Tom Corbett wants before he signs off on a 2012-13 budget is the Legislature’s approval of laws that would give the state more control over authorization of charter schools and would base teacher evaluations partly on student performance. He has said he doesn’t want the state money going [...]

LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Downgrades by ratings agency Moody’s will make funding more expensive for banks that rely the most on capital markets, while reinforcing the competitive advantage of “safe-haven” banks that can fund themselves from stable customer deposits. Stock and credit markets were nonplussed over Moody’s announcement that it had downgraded 15 of the [...]

Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:17pm EDT * Preparations beyond pure housekeeping * U.S. corporates holding onto cash * Majority of companies look to FX hedging By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Debra Sherman NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) – Three years into the European debt crisis, with the likelihood of the euro’s demise still remote, U.S. multinationals [...]

Print this Article Email this ArticleGet Our Monthly Newsletter! DARTMOUTH — With notification of provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association and the naming of a new dean, the University of Massachusetts School of Law Dartmouth reached two major milestones in June. “They said it couldn’t be done and we did it,” retiring Chancellor Jean [...]

Natalie Munroe, the Central Bucks East High School English teacher who became infamous last year for blogging about her students and may soon lose her job, has filed a First Amendment law suit against the Central Bucks School District, Superintendent N. Robert Laws and CB East principal Abram Lucabaugh. Munroe’s law suit says Laws and [...]

So turns the post-subprime bizarro world of credit-rating companies: Moody’s Investors Service (MCO)  downgraded Morgan Stanley (MS), Credit Suisse Group (CS), and 13 other banks. Today the banks respond by … rallying? Has the sector no shame? Or do credit ratings perhaps not mean what they used to? “All of the banks affected by today’s [...]

Fri Jun 22, 2012 7:51pm IST

Friday, June 22, 2012 THE leadership of the Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church) has opened its legal ministry assistance on Thursday in celebration of the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. Monsignor Jose Clemente Ignacio, rector of the Minor Basilica, said it was the archbishop who requested for the setting up of the [...]