Business should be brisk at Maryland’s watering holes Friday afternoon beginning at 4:30.

That’s when the State Board of Law Examiners will post the pass/fail test results of February’s bar exam on its website.

The board says this list, which will identify each test taker by seat number, will be “unofficial.” The official results will be sent to each examinee by regular mail, as called for under state bar-admission rules.

Best of luck to all the test-takers, those who will be toasting their success and those who will not.

Unlike the highest tribunals of many states, Maryland’s top court — the Court of Appeals — has “judges,” not “justices.”

Remembering this can be a problem for lawyers who also practice in states — such as neighboring Virginia, Pennsylvania and West Virginia — or in the federal system, where the top jurists are justices.

Thankfully, Maryland’s top jurist — Court of Appeals Chief Judge Robert M. Bell — has provided attorneys with a way to remember how to address the state’s top judges.

It happened Wednesday, when attorney David C. Gardner appeared before the Court of Appeals to press the case of fellow lawyer Timur Edib, whom the state Attorney Grievance Commission has accused of charging a client an unreasonable fee. At one point, Gardner referred to Judge Mary Ellen Barbera as “Justice Barbera.”

That error elicited a tongue-in-cheek correction from Bell.

“There is no ‘justice’ in Maryland,” he said.

Tania Arrya has no direct knowledge of the relationship between George Huguely and Yeardley Love, which irrevocably ended with Love’s death at her University of Virginia apartment and Huguely charged with killing her.

But the story and its emerging details sound familiar to Arrya, manager of the Teen Dating Violence Prevention Initiative at the House of Ruth.

“Everyone is at risk to end up in an abusive relationship,” she said Tuesday. “It doesn’t matter what your background is.”

The House of Ruth initiative teaches teens to identify qualities in healthy and unhealthy relationships, and how to be supportive of a victim or deal with a perpetrator of abuse. Teens can’t recognize warning signs unless they know what to look for, Arrya said.

What might start as verbal abuse or physical intimidation can escalate when those tactics stop working, Arrya said Tuesday. For example, Huguely might have removed Love’s computer because it contained evidence of previous threats he made against her, she said.

Arrya also suspects Love’s friends knew about the abuse but maybe not its extent, which might have been partly due to Love’s hiding it.

“You’re far away from home on a college campus and determined to be independent,” Arrya said. “Help might be available, but reaching out for help might be difficult in this age group.”

The sad irony, she pointed out, is that asking for help is the mature thing to do.