On the Record


Legal and business news, largely focused on Maryland in general and Baltimore in particular.

Author: This is the blog of The Daily Record, "a daily statewide source for business and legal news in Maryland."

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Recent Posts from On the Record


  • Tweeting in the halls of justice — literally

    As Caryn Tamber reported today, we can no longer tweet from within the courtroom at the Dixon trial. That doesn’t mean the tweets have been silenced, though; they’ve just moved down the hall. You can…

  • UM Law is 50th most-super law school

    The folks who bring you Super Lawyers came out this week with a ranking of the top law schools in the country. And it’s dopey. There. I said it. The list ranks schools by the…

  • People’s Court verdict - Happy Birthday!

    We don’t typically give birthday shout-outs in this space, but I think one is deserved for a man who has done more to expose Americans to the legal system than perhaps anyone else alive. I…

  • Forbidden fruit

    I received a lovely Edible Arrangements fruit basket at my desk this morning. Since I can find a law angle to almost anything, I’ll tell you that there was a funny warning label attached to…

  • Monday law blog round-up

    Happy Monday! Gregory Kane weighs in on alleged child-killer Dante Parrish, whom the Maryland Innocence Project helped free last year in an unrelated case. In other Parrish news, Peter Hermann’s a got a letter from…

  • Four Stars (Gavels?) for Scalia Bio

    Joan Biskupic has firmly established herself as the Doris Kearns Goodwin of judicial biography with her stirring and well-researched examination of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, arguably the nation’s most polarizing jurist. In American Original,…

  • Deli Update V - the final one!

    If you’re in Towson right now and thinking about lunch, you finally have another restaurant to consider. Yes, our long local nightmare has ended: The Perring Place Express Deli is officially open! I’ll try to…

  • Agency puts H1N1 vaccine behind bars

    There has been a lot of controversy recently about the H1N1 vaccine being made available to prison populations. (Don’t believe me? I did a Google news search to prove it.) Most notable is the 300…

  • In a bad mood? Congrats!

    Is your job making you miserable? Fabulous! As Above the Law points out, a new study indicates that having a negative outlook “makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts…

  • #DixonTrial!

    Follow the Dixon Trial on twitter with the #DixonTrial hashtag…or get the latest from the courtroom at our @mddailyrecord twitter account.