By: Danielle Ulman

Welcome back to work on this sunny Monday. Check out the links below to brighten your day.

• University of Maryland School of Law students are proposing stronger measures to protect children who are bullied in schools.
• For couples who can’t agree, getting a divorce in Maryland is easier now.
• DLA Piper’s Frank Burch has denied reports that his firm is set to merge with Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain. Earlier this year, Burch told The Daily Record that DLA planned to make a move into the great white north.
• Prince George’s County had the most civil trials in Maryland last year.
• Former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has hired a D.C. lawyer, King & Spalding’s J. Sedwick Sollers III, to represent him in the child sex abuse scandal that erupted last week in the wake of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s arrest. Paterno is not charged with any criminal wrongdoing in the case.
• A North Carolina lawyer is bugging out over sharing an Air Tran Airways flight with some cockroaches.