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Attorney Deborah K. Marcuse, Baltimore managing partner of Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP is lead counsel in a $200 million gender bias lawsuit filed against law firm behemoth Jones Day this week.

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An intermediate appellate court has upheld the dismissal of a $38 million lawsuit filed by a class of Maryland taxpayers who sued the state comptroller after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s “piggyback tax.” The Court of Special ...

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The state’s highest court disbarred an attorney who is licensed in Maryland but based in New York. The Court of Appeals decision is harsher than the two-year suspension the lawyer received in his home state.

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The state’s intermediate appellate court found that a robbery victim’s identification of her assailants through a “be on the lookout” flyer mistakenly posted on the Baltimore Police Department’s social media did not violate the defendant’s due process rights. In an ...

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This is the latest installment of The Daily Record’s Maryland Lawyers Confidence Index, a confidential survey of private attorneys in the state sponsored by the Maryland State Bar Association that explores their views on the economic factors influencing their practices. If ...

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has a reached a $31,000 settlement with Protocall Communications Inc. to resolve claims that the Laurel-based marketing company discriminated against an employee with dyslexia, the federal agency announced Tuesday. Protocall Communications brought in the ...

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Across industries, service providers – including lawyers — are trying to learn as much as they can about their clients. Thanks to client relationship management software and other tools, such as social media platforms, attorneys are able to build long-term ...

When family members go to an emergency room, they expect to leave feeling better than they did when they arrived. The same cannot be said for families who go to family court. In a new book, authors Barbara A. Babb ...

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Former Maryland state police officer and current Chesapeake Beach Town Council member Stewart Cumbo was charged with illegal wiretapping after he recorded roughly 275 phone calls between July and November 2018 without notifying the other parties that they were being ...

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Law firm Meyers, Rodbell & Rosenbaum, P.A., which has offices in Riverdale Park and Gaithersburg, entered a settlement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to resolve allegations that the firm did not reimburse the U.S. government for Medicare payments made to ...

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