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Harvard Law dean Elena Kagan has been confirmed as the next solicitor general by a vote of 61-31, David Ingram reports on the Blog of the Legal Times. Check our Web site for the full report later.
Read More »Defining the appearance of impropriety
In what the Associated Press is calling “the first major changes to the ethics rules in 17 years,” the Judicial Conference of the United States on Tuesday adopted revisions that, among other things, define the “appearance of impropriety.” Under Canon ...
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Read More »This week in Maryland Lawyer
With declining markets and law-firm layoffs in the news, soon-to-be lawyers are wondering about their own job prospects, Caryn Tamber writes. Prospects are looking up, though, for two civil servants who were fired after campaigning for their newly elected boss’s opponent. The ...
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Read More »A Ponzi scheme the Tiger shouldn’t have eyed
With Bernie Madoff on every investor’s mind, our sister paper, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, offers this post on a recent decision by the 4th Circuit. “The appellate court’s unpublished opinion in Browning v. Tiger’s Eye Benefits Consulting is worth a look ...
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Read More »The mayor’s free pass – to the Senator
Thumbing through legal papers related to the criminal investigation into City Hall recently, I noticed a curious connection between two ongoing local news stories. According to the first count of Sheila Dixon’s January indictment (on p. 16), the Baltimore mayor ...
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Read More »More on Exxon: Is Snyder’s $150M win really a loss?
Stephen Snyder was denied the billion-dollar verdict he had hoped for — the first of his career — but it’s hard to feel too sorry for him. His team estimates today’s total award in this lawsuit, stemming from a five-week, ...
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Read More »Don’t get rough with McGruff
Two recent crime stories that grabbed my attention: A Washington, D.C. bus driver was fired last week after allegedly punching McGruff the Crime Dog in the head. Shawn Brim was driving a bus Feb. 28 when he got out of ...
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Read More »Meanwhile, back on the waterfront…
The Snow Bird’s latest “sail or sale” date is a week from Friday and the long-stuck ship’s odds of floating out of Baltimore and down to dry dock in the Dominican Republic — its owner’s plan — any time soon ...
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