China’s financial industry has experienced a golden age in the last decade. In 2013, China’s banks made a staggering $292 billion in aggregate pretax profit: Chinese institutions represent four of the top ten global banks, ranked by total assets. And yet, trouble is on the horizon. In the last year, most Chinese banks reported their
What do today’s Temple Law students crave? A fascinating guest speaker in Klein 2A with free pizza? A great torts outline from the WLC Outline Bank? A brief extension from a merciful professor? Yes, yes, and definitely yes. But even more than that, today’s law students want a connection with our impressive Temple Law alumni
As I approached the end of my internship with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), my excitement and awe had not dissipated in the least. While many of my friends and family see the fact that I worked in the building where Veep is filmed as the most impressive aspect of
It was about 7 am on Friday morning, November 30, 2012, and I was taking the day off. Just as I settled down to a cup of coffee and the newspaper, my cell phone started ringing, and I immediately recognized Conrail’s Chief Risk Officer was trying to reach me. He greeted me with “four tank
When a corporation is acquired for cash in a merger, Delaware, the corporate home of many public companies, generally provides stockholders with appraisal rights. Appraisal allows dissenting stockholders who comply with the requirements set forth in Section 262 of the Delaware General Corporation Law to seek a judicial determination of the “fair value” of their
Dissolving a business comes with a host of complicated legal issues, and the Superior Court of Pennsylvania recently added one more to the list. In Red Vision Systems, Inc. v. National Real Estate Information Services, L.P., 2015 Pa. Super. 5 (2015), the Court held for the first time that the attorney-client privilege dissolves along with
Traditionally, the practice of law doesn’t scale well. Revenue comes from billable hours, and billable hours are finite. So how does any young lawyer increase the value of those hours and become an indispensable asset to clients, colleagues, and partners alike? Increase efficiencies and build a personal brand. Here’s how: Master your niche At Founder
Temple Law School has long been known for its trial advocacy programs. What some may not know is that its transactional programs are growing fast, and provide students with innovative hands-on opportunities to develop competitive business transactional skills, such as negotiating and drafting corporate documents During my 3L year, I had the opportunity to immerse
Building a business from one person to twenty people was hard. Selling that business while in law school was even harder. Running the business after it was sold to a publicly-held company has been fun, even if it is a challenge as I work toward my degree in Temple Law’s evening division. I started Fame
Cash is a great medium of exchange. It is very efficient. If someone wants to buy a garden gnome at a garden store, there are very few hurdles to the transaction. The store does not require identification and there is no need to pay a transfer fee or monitor a bank account for the funds