Although passengers on a US Airways jet that crash-landed on the Hudson River a week ago were remarkably calm about trying to escape from the plane, it didn’t look good…
A Baltimore labor and union law firm bankrolled a “good riddance” party last week for Labor Department staffers happy to see the departure of their boss, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
Although experts said Donald Sturgill didn’t have a viable medical malpractice claim for ailments he suffered after being treated and released for a boating accident, his lawyer managed to get…
In a rare rebuke to the chief judge in Baltimore, a Maryland appellate court has found that he asked too many questions during a jury trial of an armed robbery…
The Maryland Office of Public Defender has warned state judges that starting next week it will no longer pay private lawyers to represent defendants in conflict-of-interest cases.
The founders of Pennsylvania-based Kimmel & Silverman, the “1-800-Lemon-Law” firm, have been suspended from legal privileges in Maryland for failing to supervise a lawyer there unable to keep up with…
Maryland’s highest court is relying on a Seinfeld episode to explain why author Tom Clancy cannot harm a partnership with his ex-wife simply because of spite.
Prosecutors are moving forward with trespassing charges against a suburban Maryland woman who admits walking her two miniature poodles through the yard of a state police sergeant.
In an unusual situation that attracted both prosecutors and defense lawyers as courtroom spectators, veteran criminal defense lawyers in two separate cases in Baltimore were asked to explain themselves in…
A jury will decide whether a veteran Maryland defense lawyer tried to get a prosecution witness to change his testimony in a murder case, because “there is enough there” that…
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