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Mark Butler, co-founder and CEO of Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings Inc., died Sunday, according to company officials. The 61-year-old passed away unexpectedly while spending the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with his family. The board of directors on Monday named John Swygert ...

The booming wearables market is transforming the health care industry as patients use smartphone apps, the Apple Watch, Fitbits and Garmins to track their heart rate, check for heart arrhythmia, and monitor physical activity, sleep patterns and hydration. And they’re ...

The law is no joking matter. But comedians may have a few lessons that lawyers can learn.

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A gay married couple in Maryland sued Thursday to challenge the State Department's refusal to recognize the U.S. citizenship of their infant daughter, who was born in Canada via a surrogate this year.

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Running a small law firm in 2019 isn’t easy, in part because the legal marketplace is in the midst of an unprecedented transformation. Twenty-first-century technologies and globalization are significantly affecting the business of law and continue to disrupt and alter ...

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When the St. Louis-based Stange Law Firm hired attorney Chelsea Merta several years ago, neither party knew it would end like this: in a multi-venue dispute that has landed Merta in jail and caused Stange to halt its practice of ...

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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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