Jul 27, 2009
This week in Maryland Lawyer
ON THE COVER: Dealing with slow-paying clients — Lawyers see a rise in the percentage of past-due accounts.
University of Baltimore School of Law gets $500,000 in federal funds to expand its Truancy Court Program.
In Breaking News, a challenge to an Attorney Grievance Commission subpoena fails; a Bethesda family law firm breaks up; the Court of Appeals revives a $13 million verdict; and the top court says that a DNA testing law applies retroactively.
Read about a $64,000 damage award to a man who lost his house in a foreclosure rescue scheme and an Army captain who took $1.25 milion for car-crash injuries in Verdicts & Settlements.
Jack L.B. Gohn writes about “advice of counsel” in The Big Picture.
Read about whether lawyers think Judge Sotomayor should become Justice Sotomayor in this week’s Interrogatory.
Stay up-to-date with our Legal Briefs and Law Digest, with cases from the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court, Maryland.