Month: February 2015
Teach Business in Law School
Good writing is not enough to make a good lawyer. Law practice is a challenging business with thin profit and law students remain unprepared for it when they graduate. Some law schools are beginning to incorporate more business-oriented classes and seminars into their curriculum. As The New York Times recently reported, Brooklyn Law School offers […]
February 23, 2015
Maria Carmela Colaneri Received the Krause Lifetime Achievement
Maria Carmela Colaneri of Italy’s Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato received the Krause Lifetime Achievement Award in Coin Design at the World Mint Director’s Conference held in Berlin on January 31. She accepted the award in Italian to great applause. Maria Carmela Colaneri is best known as the designer of the Krause Coin of the […]
February 17, 2015
No Currency Conversion in Turks & Caicos
For Americans traveling to Turks & Caicos there is no need to worry about converting money or returning home from vacation with a pocket full of coins you will never use. The official currency is the U.S. dollar. Like 50 countries across the globe, he Caribbean island chain does not mint its own money. The […]
February 9, 2015
Susan Gamble, Award-Winning, Coin Designer Passed Away
Susan Gamble, an artist for the United States Mint, passed away in January at the age of 57-years-old. Her legacy to the United States of America is her art and through that art she will be remembered forever. In 2007 Susan Gamble designed the reverse of the Jamestown 400th anniversary silver dollar. This was the […]
February 2, 2015