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Amid the pandemic, Maryland should permit bar applicants to forgo this fall’s online exam and be admitted if they have graduated from an American Bar Association accredited law school, pass the state’s existing tests of professional responsibility and Maryland law, ...

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has asked the city’s Inspector General’s Office to investigate her travel and financial disclosures. The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday that the unusual request comes as Mosby draws criticism for her trips and business arrangements. Mosby ...

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Maryland judges should not participate in Black Lives Matter rallies because their clarion call for justice system reform and harsh criticism of law enforcement would bring the jurists’ impartiality into question when they return to the courtroom, the state’s Judicial ...

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The average annual salary increase rate for all in-house counsel across industries remained constant at 4.4%, with the energy sector experiencing the highest increase rate of 5.4% for the second year in a row, according to a national online survey. ...

There were seven law firm combinations announced in the United States in the second quarter of 2020, a sluggish pace that is likely caused by the pandemic-driven economic slowdown, according to an online service that tracks law firm mergers and acquisitions. All ...

The two-day Maryland bar exam originally scheduled for the end of July at the Baltimore Convention Center will be administered online Oct. 5 and 6 due to continuing concern about spreading the COVID-19 virus, the State Board of Law Examiners ...

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A unanimous Maryland high court has disbarred a Gaithersburg lawyer who lied to a client, a court and bar counsel and misrepresented herself as an ally to the alleged teenage victim of a client accused of sexual assault – all ...

A unanimous Maryland high court has disbarred a Laurel bankruptcy attorney for ethical violations in handling her own case as well as misappropriating client funds and lying to and concealing information from clients in their cases. Arlene Adasa Smith-Scott made ...

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Two Maryland lawyers who exchanged racist, misogynistic and homophobic emails for about seven years while working at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have been indefinitely suspended from the practice of law by the state’s top court. A unanimous Court ...

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A new Maryland Judiciary committee whose members range from support staff to judges will seek to identify and eradicate discrimination on the basis of race, background or identity in the court system, from the way people are addressed to the ...