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Just over a year after their firm was acquired by Rifkin Weiner Livingston LLC, Jonathan Biran and Ty Kelly have moved to a firm with an even larger platform to support their government enforcement and investigations practice. Biran and Kelly ...

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Hope Keller, a veteran journalist with deep roots in Maryland’s legal community, has joined The Daily Record as its legal editor. “We are extremely pleased that Hope has become a part of our team,” said Daily Record Editor Thomas Baden ...

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April Caso Ishak, the city attorney for Havre de Grace, has launched her own practice geared toward making legal services more affordable for middle-class people in her community, the firm announced this week. AC Ishak Law LLC handles cases involving ...

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Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP announced plans Thursday to expand its presence in the Midwest with a new office in Minneapolis. The office, the firm’s 16th, will be staffed by eight partners recruited from the Minneapolis office of Gray ...

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A Harvard Law School student organization is trying to discourage law students nationwide from applying for summer associate positions at Venable LLP because of the firm’s use of mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements. The clauses, which, among other things, ...

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A lawyer who worked at two BigLaw firms in Chicago is now facing an ethics complaint over allegations that he exaggerated the number of hours he worked on client matters. The lawyer, Christopher Craig Anderson, was an associate at Kirkland ...

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The federal government shutdown, now in its 33rd day, has revealed an unintended consequence affecting some prospective lawyers: the administration of the February bar exam in the District of Columbia. While the District of Columbia Courts Committee on Admissions is ...

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The state’s highest court Tuesday disbarred an attorney who had finished serving a one-year suspension last year. The Court of Appeals found Harford County attorney Jerome P. Johnson failed to properly manage his attorney trust account and did not respond ...

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Joseph, Greenwald & Laake, PA is expanding its family law practice with the addition of four attorneys from the former Rockville-based law firm Dragga Hannon LLP. The four attorneys who joined Joseph Greenwald as of Jan. 1 are Patrick W. ...

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Whiteford Taylor & Preston, LLP is expanding its offerings in its Richmond office with the addition of a group of experienced corporate and real estate attorneys, the firm announced Tuesday. Partners Katja H. Hill and John C. Selbach and associates ...

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