A 25-year veteran of the Wicomico County, Md., prosecutor’s office was killed Friday and another attorney in the office was injured when a driver reportedly pulled out in front of…
For several years, a Maryland lawyer dipped into client funds without being caught. But then he received a $385,000 cashier’s check purporting to be a payment for legal work needed…
The checks are still coming into Mann Bracken, often from wage garnishments won by the Maryland-based national law firm before it shuttered its doors earlier this year.
A Washington, D.C.-area judge has granted a mistrial in an attempted murder case after a juror argued with the judge, telling him he couldn’t be forced to deliberate.
A unemployed cell-tower technician and Marine Corps veteran got a four-month jail term yesterday for throwing a 4-pound Chihuahua off a bridge in Maryland last year, presumably causing the dog’s…
All through law school, three new graduates seeking to become members of the Maryland bar used specialized software to help them read text on their computer screens.
The Maryland Court of Appeals decided last month that it isn’t enough just to consider criminal defendants’ income in deciding whether they’re eligible to be represented by a public defender.
The board overseeing a ritzy Baltimore condo put off a vote Wednesday evening on a plan to collect “doggie DNA” to identify the dog or dogs that are leaving their…
Maryland’s governor signed legislation this week creating a new kind of corporation that seeks to make a profit at the same time it performs social good.
Maryland Judge Edwin Collier gave a drunken driver a break in 1998, imposing a suspended sentence even though the man had been arrested twice in three months on charges of…
Wells Fargo has just settled a fair housing lawsuit brought by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But the bank’s court battle over its alleged discriminatory lending…
A Maryland judge who dismissed a domestic abuse case after marrying the defendant to the woman he was accused of beating and kicking now says his “Catholic conscience” urged him…
Two groups that fight domestic violence have filed ethics complaints against a Maryland judge who stopped a trial to perform a marriage ceremony between…
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