Sheila K. Sachs, a pioneering family law practitioner and a prominent member of the legal community, died of cancer Sunday. The Baltimore resident was 78. Sachs, a partner at Gordon Feinblatt LLC, had a law practice that included litigating and ...
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Baltimore has filed a motion seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent a federal regulation from being implemented in the city that would prohibit family planning clinics receiving federal money from making abortion referrals. The federal Title X program, enacted in ...
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The number of people sitting for the Maryland bar examination in February hit its lowest level in more than 50 years, with only 302 people opting to take the test. It was the lowest figure since March 1965, when 279 ...
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A Baltimore city jury awarded $1.2 million to a woman who has permanent cognitive deficiencies from being exposed to lead paint as a baby. After a five-day trial and two hours of deliberations, a jury of two men and four ...
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A Calvert County jury has awarded $250,000 to a woman who was injured when a pier collapsed during a wedding reception at a yacht club. Plaintiff Polly Traynham and other wedding guests were lining up to send off the bride ...
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Law firms often tout their commitment to diversity, pointing to specific affinity groups, a dedicated diversity committee, targeted recruitment efforts and mentoring programs for women and people of color. Indeed, the legal community in the Baltimore region has undergone tremendous ...
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The Daily Record spoke to 10 lawyers at the top of their game at some of Maryland’s largest law firms. We asked these “rainmakers” how they got where they are today, what they love about their jobs and what advice ...
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As more and more jurisdictions file lawsuits against drug manufacturers for their role in the opioid crisis, officials at a conference in Baltimore on Thursday stressed that a multifaceted approach was needed to target opioid addiction in Maryland and across ...
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Producers of a podcast series about Keith Davis Jr., who has been tried three times in the 2015 killing of a Pimlico Race Course security guard, plan to use audio from court proceedings and want the Maryland Judiciary not to ...
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For the past 10 years, attorney Edmund J. O’Meally and his wife, Dawn, have seen the toll Alzheimer’s disease can take on a person through the impact the disease has had on his mother. In an effort to help others ...
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