New York accuses ExxonMobil of deceiving investors about climate change risks

October 24, 2018 Comments Off on New York accuses ExxonMobil of deceiving investors about climate change risks

This April 25, 2017, photo, shows an Exxon service station sign in Nashville, Tenn. On Wednesday, May 31, 2017, Exxon Mobil shareholders pushed the company to share more information about whether regulations designed to reduce climate change will hurt the oil giant's business. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood sued ExxonMobil on Wednesday, accusing the oil giant of defrauding investors about the financial risks of climate change and lying about how it was calculating potential carbon costs.

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Gary C. Norman: A vote for greater access to the polls

October 24, 2018 Comments Off on Gary C. Norman: A vote for greater access to the polls

I struggle in understanding our bureaucratic resistance to revolutionizing voting through technology.

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Lawyer-turned-playwright hits FringeNYC

October 19, 2018 Comments Off on Lawyer-turned-playwright hits FringeNYC

Retired Towson lawyer's play based on the 1967 Cambridge riot is getting its premiere in New York.

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GARY WARD, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

October 16, 2018 Comments Off on GARY WARD, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Criminal procedure — Writ of actual innocence — Possibility of different outcome Appellant Gary Ward filed a Petition for Writ of Actual Innocence in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, claiming that because of the Court of Appeals’s holding in ...

Why we’re training the next generation of lawyers in big data

October 11, 2018 Comments Off on Why we’re training the next generation of lawyers in big data

Artificial intelligence is transforming the traditional delivery of legal services.

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Lawyer gets benched by UM football team

October 8, 2018 1 Comment

Upper Marlboro attorney Richard Jaklitsch, who is also president of the Terrapin Club, says that in prior years when Maryland has had a game during working hours, his firm has taken off to a nearby watering hole called ‘The Office’ to watch.

Rick Jaklitsch, one of the Terps' biggest boosters, was scheduled to travel with the team to its game Saturday at the University of Michigan.

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Violinist, professor, pastor among 25 ‘genius grant’ winners

October 4, 2018 Comments Off on Violinist, professor, pastor among 25 ‘genius grant’ winners

This Sept. 18, 2018 photo provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation shows Robert Vijay Gupta, the Mark Houston Dalzell and James Dao-Dalzell First Chair Violin with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony posing with his violin in his house in Los Angeles. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Thursday Oct. 4, 2018 named Gupta and 24 other academics, activists, artists, scholars and scientists, MacArthur fellows. The recipients will receive $625,000 over five years to use as they please. (Photo by John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation via AP)

A violinist who organizes concerts for the homeless, a professor whose research is being used to increase access to civil justice by poor communities and an activist pastor are among this year's MacArthur fellows and recipients of so-called genius grants.

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Baltimore tax preparer, state employee indicted on theft charges

October 1, 2018 Comments Off on Baltimore tax preparer, state employee indicted on theft charges

A Baltimore tax preparer who also is an employee with the Maryland Department of Human Services was indicted Monday for felony theft and willfully filing false taxes.

Why Musk aimed high on Tesla’s stock price

September 28, 2018 Comments Off on Why Musk aimed high on Tesla’s stock price

This image provided by Tesla Motors shows the Tesla Model 3 sedan. Electric automaker Tesla has produced its first Model 3 sedan, a highly anticipated car because it carries a relatively low sticker price. On Saturday, July 8, 2017, CEO Elon Musk tweeted pictures of the car, which will cost $35,000 and can travel 215 miles on a single electric charge. A $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles would lower the cost to $27,500. (Courtesy of Tesla Motors via AP)

The things a chairman and CEO of a company will do for love.

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‘LawChampion’ becomes world champion

September 7, 2018 Comments Off on ‘LawChampion’ becomes world champion

Mitchell Greenberg, right, poses with a fellow competitor at the WEKAF World Championships in Hawaii in July. (Courtesy of Mitchell Greenberg)

Glen Burnie solo practitioner a world champion in Filipino stick fighting.

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