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Two recent court decisions — one from each coast — show why conventional witness preparation needs a warning label: Use at your own risk. The first one, the Qualcomm case, shows how conventional approaches to witness preparation can lead to ...

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After expanding its Maryland business through a merger this spring, Orrstown Financial Services Inc. has hired former BB&T Regional President Christopher D. Holt to head up its operations in the Old Line state. Holt has been named the first-ever Maryland ...

There was a time when human resources practitioners and employment attorneys could list the “protected classes” — groups of people protected from discrimination and harassment in the workplace — like counting to five: race, color, religion, sex and national origin. ...

RICHMOND — Overruling 22 years of precedent, the en banc 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Chapter 13 debtors may divide some undersecured home mortgage loans into secured and unsecured claims and “cram down” the unsecured portion ...

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Daily decisions about what we eat or whether we’re active can come back to haunt us or help us. “It’s the little choices we make every day that end up playing out in our long-term health,” said Elizabeth Bostock M.D., ...

A prominent personal injury attorney in South Carolina’s Low Country is suing his son for trademark infringement for using his birth name in advertising his new, independent law firm. George Sink Sr. alleges that George “Ted” Sink Jr. and the ...

RICHMOND, Va. — Accusations that so-called “reptile” tactics might crawl out of a federal pothole injury case failed to alarm a magistrate judge this month. Ruling on pretrial motions, the judge declined to impose a protective order governing depositions of ...

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The 180-day waiting period that federal employees must adhere to before filing a discrimination lawsuit against their employer begins upon filing an initial complaint, and not upon each subsequent amendment to that complaint, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

At the United States Supreme Court this year, Justice Anthony Kennedy retired, his former law clerk Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced him, and the court addressed a number of significant — and sometime controversial — issues. Here are 10 cases to ...

Too often businesses hit by a disaster — whether a natural disaster or a man-made occurrence — will close permanently. But with adequate planning — and some help from financial institutions — closure can be avoided. Lenders said that a business ...