O’Malley signs environmental bills, Phylicia’s Law

BY: Associated Press
POSTED: May 2, 2012
Tags: bill signing, employers, facebook, flush tax, General Assembly, gov. martin o'malley, job applicants, Phylicia Barnes, phylicia's law, septic systems, signature

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley has put his signature on 294 bills passed by the legislature this year. O’Malley signed the bills, which included his initiatives to increase the state’s so-called flush tax and limit where new septic systems can be placed, during more than two-hour long ceremony Wednesday afternoon. The flush-tax proposals will [...]

Cutting, pasting signature draws reprimand for attorney

BY: Danielle Ulman
POSTED: November 6, 2011
Tags: Attorney Grievance Commission, Bar Counsel, chief judge robert bell, dana andrew paul, Judge Sally D. Adkins, lawyer, mary ellen barbera, maryland court of appeals, signature, trivialized

Maryland’s top court has reprimanded an attorney who copied opposing counsel’s signature from a document she had revised, then pasted it on his original version and filed it without her permission. Dana Andrew Paul had a poor working relationship with the other lawyer, based on a previous experience when they worked for the same firm. [...]

Accuser sits in on foreclosure hearing

BY: Brendan Kearney
POSTED: May 23, 2011
Tags: Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, baltimore city circuit court, filing, foreclosure, hearing, illegal practices, John Burson, maryland, mortgage, Shapiro & Burson LLP, signature, signatures, Special Master Elizabeth A. Ritter, testify, William M. Savage

Midway into Monday morning’s show cause hearing in Baltimore City Circuit Court, Special Master Elizabeth A. Ritter paused to ask if anyone in the gallery was a party to any of the foreclosure cases on the docket. Two men spoke up. The first was John Burson, managing partner of Shapiro & Burson LLP, the Virginia-based [...]