Andrew Baida: You could’ve done better 

BY: Andrew Baida
POSTED: July 15, 2012
Tags: andrew h. baida, annual meeting, maryland, Maryland State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, MSBA, Ocean City, Wall Street Journal’s Supreme Court

I should be basking in the after-glow of a very good program that the Maryland State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, which I co-chair, presented at the recently concluded MSBA annual meeting in Ocean City. Three speakers who are truly prominent in their fields, including the Wall Street Journal’s Supreme Court correspondent and a lawyer [...]

Wright making the in-house switch

BY: Kristi Tousignant
POSTED: June 28, 2012
Tags: Allie M. Wright, annual meeting, james madison university, Leadership Academy, Maryland State Bar Association’s Leadership Academy, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Ronald B. Rubin, MSBA
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For attorney Allie M. Wright, fighting cases in-house at a company is just as challenging as combat in the courtroom. “I’m really here to battle everything that needs to be battled on behalf of the company,” Wright said. Wright, associate general counsel at Allegis Group in Hanover, was the only in-house counsel in this year’s [...]

Editorial: Justice, not junk 

BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 21, 2012
Tags: annual meeting, Crime Victims Resource Center, house of ruth, maryland, Maryland Disability Law Center, maryland legal services corp., Maryland State Bar Association, MSBA, Ocean City

In a party room piled high with swag for the taking, the one empty table belonged to the host. And that was a good thing. The host was the Maryland State Bar Association, and its table was bare because it had opted not to spend $5,000 on thank-you gifts for the 700 people attending its [...]

Major changes in patent law are under way 

BY: Ben Mook
POSTED: June 17, 2012
Tags: annual meeting, changes, John M. White, Maryland State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Section, MSBA, patent, patent law, USPTO

OCEAN CITY — After five decades in which the patent process was left relatively untouched, an overhaul of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will make major procedural changes that will impact intellectual property lawyers over the next few years. When the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act was signed last September, it put into effect [...]

At MSBA’s Solo Day, flipping for verbal judo 

BY: Lizzy McLellan
POSTED: June 14, 2012
Tags: annual meeting, Five-Step Approach to Generate Voluntary Compliance, L. Jeanette Rice, lawyers, MSBA, MSBA Director of Communications W. Patrick Tandy, Ocean City, Solo Day, Solo Day Chairman Phil Cronan, Verbal Judo Institute Inc., W. Lee Fjelstad

The lawyer’s art is often likened to a fencing match, a chess game, a battle of wits or a battle of wills. But in W. Lee Fjelstad’s view, the better comparison is to judo. Fjelstad will present “Verbal Judo: The gentle and effective art of getting everybody to do what you want (without losing your [...]

Editorial Advisory Board: Legal internships – Experience worth giving and getting 

BY: Editorial Advisory Board
POSTED: June 14, 2012
Tags: ABA, annual meeting, attorney, Editorial Advisory Board, internships, Law, lawyer, legal, Maryland State Bar Association, MSBA, Ocean City, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

The two law schools in Maryland offer different opportunities for legal internships. At the University of Baltimore School of Law, there are internship/externship opportunities for credit or for no credit, even with private law firms. At the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, the rules limit internships/externships to judicial internships or to [...]

Editorial Advisory Board: Adopt the proposed MSBA bylaw amendments 

BY: Editorial Advisory Board
POSTED: June 13, 2012
Tags: annual meeting, Bar Association’s Bylaws, Board of Governors, Editorial Advisory Board, Maryland State Bar Association, MSBA, MSBA Board of Governors, Ocean City

At the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on Saturday morning, MSBA members will be asked to approve a number of changes to the Bar Association’s Bylaws. The changes will give effect to two needed reforms. First, the MSBA dues will be increased from $125 to $150. Secondly, three new Board of Governors seats will [...]

Sears execs say retailer financially strong

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 2, 2012
Tags: annual meeting, edward lampert, general growth properties, land's end, lou d'ambrosio, Real Estate, Retail, sears, sears holding corp., shareholders, shoppers

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. — Sears executives tried Wednesday to ease concerns about the troubled retailer’s long-term outlook amid ever-sinking sales, emphasizing the company’s financial strength, increased liquidity and prospects to boost operational results. Chairman Edward Lampert told shareholders at Sears Holdings Corp.’s annual meeting that the company is “not planning to just survive” but thrive [...]

Chesapeake Bay ‘pollution diet’ on track up

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: July 11, 2011
Tags: annual meeting, chesapeake bay, Chesapeake Executive Council, environmental protection agency, EPA, Jeff Corbin, maryland, pollution, virginia

RICHMOND, Va. — An ambitious plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay by 2025 is off to a positive start, with the first round of pollution control reductions on target, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday. EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the reductions, primarily from sewage plant improvements, are a significant milestone in the effort “to [...]

Law firm survival, from start to end 

BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: June 12, 2011
Tags: annual meeting, Business Issues of Law Firms — Genesis to Armageddon, Jeffrey P. Reilly, maryland, Maryland State Bar Association, Miles & Stockbridge PC, MSBA, Ocean City, Steven S. Manekin

Some firms fail spectacularly while others survive, and often there are ways to guard against implosion, according to a group of tax and business attorneys. In a Friday session of the Maryland State Bar Association’s annual convention in Ocean City called “Business Issues of Law Firms — Genesis to Armageddon,” lawyers in the tax and [...]

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