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We’re in the thick of wedding season, and while some of us may be watching friends walk down the aisle, law firms are also getting hitched – to one another. According to Altman Weil MergerLine, there were 12 law firm ...
Read More »Murder conviction overturned due to ‘Miranda’ violations
A murder suspect’s request that he not talk to police anymore until he spoke with a lawyer was an unambiguous invocation of his right to counsel, the state’s top court ruled Tuesday. The Court of Appeals granted Warren Lee Ballard ...
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Read More »Law blog roundup
Welcome to the start of what looks to be a very sticky week. We’ll be hit with Maryland’s three summer “h’s” – hot, humid and hazy. Here are this week’s hot legal news links. The legal profession keeps getting more ...
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Read More »Hogan Lovells lawyers bike from London to Paris for charity
At about 25 kilometers per hour, Stephen Immelt was in the slow group. The Baltimore attorney rode on a team with other Hogan Lovells lawyers and a few clients that spent three days in the London-Paris 2011, a 550-kilometer bike ...
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Read More »O.C. man accepts $462K offer of judgment in auto accident case
An Ocean City man accepted a $462,000 offer of judgment after an auto accident with a trucker left him with neck injuries that he said resulted in bankruptcy and the loss of his job and home. James A. Gelfo and ...
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Read More »Severstal liabilities narrowed
Severstal Sparrows Point LLC is not liable for pollution that occurred before the 2003 approval of Bethlehem Steel Corp.’s bankruptcy sale, but may be required to undertake a study of offshore pollution in the area, a federal judge has ruled. ...
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Read More »9 on short list for 2 judicial vacancies
A Maryland judicial commission has released the pared list of candidates Gov. Martin O’Malley will consider for two vacancies on the Baltimore City Circuit Court. The Trial Courts Judicial Nominating Commission for Commission District 14 met on June 27 to ...
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Read More »Law blog roundup
Welcome to this post-July 4th special Tuesday law blog roundup. Hopefully you got your fill of barbeque and mosquito bites this weekend and you’re ready to settle in for some law links. New York papers reporting that the DA is ...
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Read More »Injured Sykesville man settles lawsuit
A man who lost a finger when he tried to sit down on a Martha Stewart lounge chair has reached a confidential settlement with the companies that manufacture and sell the product. Robert Dunn of Sykesville sued Martha Stewart Living ...
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Read More »Black employee awarded $1.65M for wrongful termination
A former high-ranking employee of Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission has won a $1.65 million verdict for his wrongful termination in 2005. A Prince George’s County Circuit Court jury found on Tuesday that Allen W. Cartwright Jr., a black man, had ...
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