Law movers – 1/17/12: Hodes, Pessin elects Petty as member 
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: January 16, 2012
Tags: attorney, board member, Elliott D. Petty, J. Marks Moore III, Law, law movers, lawyer, maryland volunteer lawyers service, Miles & Stockbridge, sheela murthy, Sheila K. Sachs
Hodes, Pessin elects Petty as member Elliott D. Petty has been elected a member of Hodes, Pessin & Katz, of Towson. Petty is part of the firm’s medical malpractice group and has substantial experience representing health care professionals and institutions in complex medical malpractice litigation in state and federal court. He also represents individuals, business entities, [...]
Almeter joins DLA Piper’s litigation practice
BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: December 27, 2011
Tags: Baltimore Freedom Academy, DLA Piper, Gary Almeter, maryland volunteer lawyers service, Venable
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Gary Almeter has joined the Baltimore office of DLA Piper as an attorney in the litigation practice. Almeter’s practice centers on the defense of complex product liability, toxic tort and personal injury litigation in state and federal courts. He has served as lead attorney for pro bono cases in state and federal courts in conjunction [...]
Joe Surkiewicz – MLSC recognizes 2011 justice champions
BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: November 27, 2011
Tags: 4th u.s. circuit court of appeals, attorney, awards, Baltimore City Department of Social Services, Benjamin L. Cardin Distinguished Service Award, lawyers, M. Natalie McSherry, maryland legal aid, maryland legal services corp., maryland volunteer lawyers service, Mitchell Y. Mirviss, public justice center, reception, Venable LLP
Two private attorneys — M. Natalie McSherry of Kramon & Graham and Mitchell Y. Mirviss of Venable — lead the list of honorees at next month’s Maryland Legal Services Corp. annual awards reception. The lawyers will share the Arthur W. Machen, Jr. Award, presented annually to an attorney who has rendered extraordinary service by providing [...]
Joe Surkiewicz: MVLS, law school to ‘Celebrate Pro Bono’
BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: October 16, 2011
Tags: celebrate pro bono, Court of Appeals, Francis King Carey School of Law, Hodes Pessin & Katz, Joe Surkiewicz, mark scurti, maryland legal aid, maryland volunteer lawyers service, MVLS, Towson, University of Maryland
This year’s Celebrate Pro Bono recognition reception on Oct. 19 is a twofer: In addition to the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service honoring its top volunteers, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Leadership in Public Service and Maryland Public Interest Law Project will spotlight law students who have helped low-income Marylanders. First [...]
Joe Surkiewicz: With a pro bono boost, Project HEAL expands
BY: Joe Surkiewicz
POSTED: July 4, 2011
Tags: Joe Surkiewicz, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Kennedy Krieger Institute, maryland volunteer lawyers service, Ober Kaler, Project HEAL
Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia feature more than 225 medical-legal partnerships that help low-income patients and families with a wide array of legal services, such as assistance with special education, public benefits, landlord/tenant problems, advanced medical directives, medical insurance and family law. Maryland has one: Project HEAL (Health, Education, Advocacy, and Law), founded [...]
Law movers: 6/27/11
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 26, 2011
Tags: amy m. mcclain, attorneys, Ballard Spahr, DLA Piper, law movers, lawyers, Legislator of the Year, Maryland State’s Attorney’s Association, maryland volunteer lawyers service, On the Move, robert a. scott, Senate Minority Leader Nancy Jacobs
Two attorneys in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr have been elected partners. Amy M. McClain and Robert A. Scott will join the firm’s partnership July 1. McClain is a member of the real estate department and housing group. She primarily represents public housing authorities and affordable-housing developers in mixed-finance transactions. Scott is a member [...]
Law movers: 6/27/11
BY: Daily Record Staff
POSTED: June 26, 2011
Tags: amy m. mcclain, Anthony P. Ashton, attorneys, Ballard Spahr, DLA Piper, law movers, lawyers, Maryland Senate’s Legislator of the Year, maryland volunteer lawyers service, On the Move, robert a. scott, State Senate Minority Leader Nancy Jacobs
Two attorneys in the Baltimore office of Ballard Spahr have been elected partners. Amy M. McClain and Robert A. Scott will join the firm’s partnership July 1. McClain is a member of the real estate department and housing group. She primarily represents public housing authorities and affordable-housing developers in mixed-finance transactions. Scott is a member [...]
The Daily Record News Quiz: May 9-13
BY: Jon Sham and Rachel Bernstein
POSTED: May 13, 2011
Tags: Baltimore, campaign law violations, constellation, Constellation Energy, cordish, david cordish, dr. edward d. miller, hotel, Johns Hopkins Medicine, lawsuit, maryland, maryland volunteer lawyers service, Port of Baltimore, senate president, solar power installation, thomas v. mike miller
Have you been keeping up with The Daily Record’s news this week? Take our 10-question weekly news quiz in this new interactive feature. Leave a comment below and tell us how many questions you got right!
On the Move, 3/28: Westerman joins Ascend One as chief marketing officer
BY: Wayne Countryman
POSTED: March 28, 2011
Tags: Ascend One Corp., BB&T Bank, Everyman Theatre, Judith Needham, ken ulman, Kevin J. Cullen, Luke T. Cooper, Mark Westerman, maryland volunteer lawyers service, Michael S. Clevenger, Susan Flanigan, University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, W. Bryan Rakes
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Mark Westerman has joined Ascend One Corp., a debt-management company based in Columbia, as chief marketing officer. He previously worked at West33 Consulting Group after serving as vice president/global marketing communications at FILA (Cerberus Capital Management). He began his career at Doner Advertising in Baltimore as an account executive and was promoted to vice president [...]
Towson law firm encourages pro bono work
BY: Danny Jacobs
POSTED: November 21, 2010
Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore County Bar Association, Chason, law firm, Leary & Marshall LLC, maryland, maryland volunteer lawyers service, pro bono, Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland, Rosner, Towson
Erika Alsid Short has volunteered hundreds of hours in the last six years on a death penalty case that has wound its way through the state and federal courts. So when she interviewed three years ago at newly formed Chason, Rosner, Leary & Marshall LLC in Towson, one of her main questions was whether she [...]
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