Finance Law

©Getty High street banks have traditionally been the biggest source of funding for mid-sized companies in the UK High street banks have traditionally been the biggest source of funding for mid-sized companies in the UK, but the financial crisis and the resulting economic downturn has forced many lenders to retrench – and companies to look [...]

MANILA, June 25 (PIA) — Good news to parishioners of Quiapo Church. The Minor Basilica of the Black Nazarene (Quiapo Church) recently launched its Ministry for Legal Assistance Office to provide free legal services to underprivileged parishioners. According to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the said launching was done during the birthday [...]

The federal government intends to push legislation through parliament this week to make sure chaplaincy providers receive payments when they’re due in four days time. Last week, the High Court ruled the way the government funds the national schools chaplaincy program, set up in 2007 under John Howard, was invalid because it didn’t have a [...]

JPMorgan Chase Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) compete for banking and trading business from almost all of the world’s largest companies, with one notable exception: Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK), the second biggest U.S. gas producer now facing a cash-flow shortage. For more than a decade, JPMorgan bankers have declined to do business [...]

Eco Plastics, a Lincolnshire-based recycling group, has used asset-based finance to help fund rapid growth Any chief financial officer in the US will be familiar with asset-based finance (ABF). This type of arrangement is used extensively in US business, from small companies to the largest corporations. Indeed, total credit line commitments by US asset-based financiers [...]

How the Current Situation in Legal Education Came to Pass: Part II Larry VelvelJune 20, 2012 Click here for part I. The period 1923-1973 was preparation for developments of truly enormous importance in 1973 itself. In that year leading legal educators were deeply concerned over the economic and professional status of law professors. There accordingly [...]

Shallow depressions in the Mira Mesa landscape are hardly noticeable to casual observers, yet they are big enough that they have contributed to decades of delay for a proposed neighborhood school. And the so-called vernal pools are growing in political significance. The saga of the still-unbuilt Jonas Salk Elementary School gained national attention last week [...]

Central banks in developed nations are confronting the limits of their ability to aid economic recovery as government efforts to strengthen their finances fall short, the Bank for International Settlements said. “Central banks are being cornered into prolonging monetary stimulus as governments drag their feet and adjustment is delayed,” the Basel, Switzerland-based BIS said in [...]

Accomando, Justin Hometown: Arlington, VA; Yale Law School Acevedo, Adan Hometown: Lennox, CA; Harvard University Agbeyegbe, Paul Hometown: Miami, FL; University of Miami School of Law Ali, Mohammed Hometown: Atlanta, GA; Georgia Institute of Technology Arroyo, Phillip Hometown: Carolina, PR; Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law Arteaga, Alma Hometown: Burlington, VT; University of Vermont Arthur, Morgan Hometown: Chicago, IL; [...]