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As the Baltimore homicide rate climbs to a record number, a term that has not been frequently heard is “respect for life.” Regardless of class, color, sexual orientation, or ethnicity, a central concept for human beings is respecting the life ...

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As I travel around the state visiting classrooms, I have a front-row seat to a remarkable and vital transformation occurring in public education in Maryland. From Hagerstown to Silver Spring, from Westminster to La Plata, students of all ages are ...

What will it take for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake and the Baltimore City Council to realize that it is their very own policies that are forcing many Baltimore city residents to live in “food deserts?” In the June 10, 2015 ...

It’s an important time to think about how your current employees are doing in their jobs – that is, it’s time to examine and evaluate your organization’s employee retention capability.

During my last semester as a law student, I enrolled as a student-attorney in the Bob Parsons Veterans Advocacy Clinic at the University of Baltimore School of Law. For five months, I had the privilege of representing veterans in Baltimore ...

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The occurrences of last week have caused significant damage to the City of Baltimore. For an entire week, Baltimore was the focus of national attention all for the wrong reasons. The mayor, members of her administration, and local political leaders ...

Because the GOP base is vehemently opposed to undocumented immigrants, Republican presidential candidates tend to stress their commitment to ramped-up security and enforcement measures as a precursor to any resolution for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. ...

In April 2014, Maryland’s highest court laid down a seminal opinion restating the doctrine of informed consent in Maryland, while addressing important issues of proof in informed consent lawsuits. The decision is a mixed bag for health care providers in Maryland. On the one hand, the decision helpfully makes expert testimony a legal requirement for informed consent cases, and sets a bar for that testimony to clear. On the other hand, that bar is set low and can now be cleared by a wider range of experts.

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Fighting to stop an infringing trademark registration may become more necessary, more expensive and more (or less) desirable based on a recent Supreme Court ruling.

The $6.8 billion merger of Exelon and Pepco has come under intense scrutiny in Maryland with several coalitions and state officials opposing the acquisition. Approving the merger would bode well for Maryland’s energy consumers as well as the state’s economy. ...