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Students at Maryland’s two law schools will be able to take advantage of new offerings this academic year as professors strive to prepare them for the changing landscape of the legal profession. The University of Baltimore School of Law is ...

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The legal industry has spawned hundreds of podcasts, covering everything from legal news to law firm marketing to legal ethics, according to Lawyerist.com. In the Baltimore area, attorneys have created podcasts of their own. Here’s a look at four of ...

In only one Baltimore sports league is talk in the dugout likely to turn to worker’s compensation cases and memories of law school: the lawyers’ softball league. The Intra-Professional Athletic Conference began in 1970 with 24 teams. Today there are ...

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Months after a landmark Maryland Court of Appeals ruling that landlords cannot file suit against tenants for back rent beyond the three-year statute of limitations, lawyers are still working to ensure that tenants are treated fairly in rent court. The ...

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Attorneys Timothy Gunning and Michael Wyatt have been friends since freshman year football tryouts at Loyola Blakefield in Towson, and now, more than 40 years later, they have merged law practices to become colleagues. Wyatt & Gunning LLC will “serve ...

As people get older, they often have conversations with family members about the future — but they usually don’t have any plans in writing, say lawyers and staff with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service. To encourage people to put their ...

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Students from Edgewater’s South River High School took first, second and third place in the Anne Arundel Bar Association’s annual high school essay contest, the bar association announced. The contest, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, required student competitors ...

As social media becomes the preferred setting for political discourse, elected officials must be aware of the developing body of law around First Amendment rights in public forums, say attorneys who focus on social media and the law. Social media, ...

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Former Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has joined Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP as a partner in the Global Litigation Group and the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice in the firm’s Washington office, Cadwalader announced Monday. Gansler will ...

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