Finance Law

Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:38pm IST

UC Irvine School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Professor Brian Tamanaha, in his provocative new book, Failing Law Schools, argues for a new approach to legal education that involves law schools that are dramatically less expensive. In fact, he singles out for criticism me and the University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI) for [...]

But neither has responded to calls for a renewed debate over how to prevent gun violence. Asked on Sunday whether Mr. Obama favored new gun control initiatives, his spokesman, Jay Carney, twice said the main focus of the president — who four years ago called for an assault-weapons ban — was to “protect Second Amendment [...]

ZURICH (Reuters) – Credit Suisse will not sell or spin off its investment bank but is seeking to improve its business model as tighter regulation makes the risky unit less profitable, the Swiss bank’s chairman was quoted as saying on Saturday. “A separation or a sale of investment banking, as is sometimes demanded, would be [...]

FARMINGTON, Conn., Jul 23, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) – Horizon Technology Finance Corporation /quotes/zigman/626803/quotes/nls/hrzn HRZN -1.75% (the “Company” or “Horizon”) announced today that it has completed a public offering of 1,909,000 shares of its common stock (including 249,000 shares of common stock that were issued pursuant to the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares) at [...]

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law has selected Forrest Stanford, J.D., associate dean of admissions at Charlotte School of Law, as the new associate dean of admissions and financial aid. Stanford will begin work at Loyola on Aug. 1. Stanford succeeds Michele Allison-Davis, who has served as assistant dean of admissions for the College [...]

Chandler police are reminding drivers to follow school-zone laws and urging parents to tell children to avoid suspicious people on their way to school as the academic year begins Monday in the Chandler Unified School District. A string of incidents between August and October last year included children encountering a suspicious person, said Detective Seth [...]

WASHINGTON — Regulators closed two small banks in Georgia on Friday and one each in Florida, Kansas and Illinois, bringing to 38 the number of U.S. bank failures this year. That’s a slower pace than in 2011; 58 banks had failed by this time last year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Georgia Trust Bank, based [...]

EBay Inc. (EBAY) (EBAY) is taking advantage of record low interest rates to raise domestic funds it may use to reward shareholders while avoiding U.S. repatriation tax on the 87 percent of its cash (EBAY) held overseas. The Internet marketplace, whose borrowing costs are about half that of other technology and electronic firms, paid a [...]

LOS ANGELES, Jul 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Concord Law School of Kaplan University, the nation’s leading fully-online law school, will celebrate their eighteenth graduation on Saturday, July 28, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The graduating class includes 22 graduates of the Juris Doctor program and 20 who earned an Executive Juris [...]