A task force created by Maryland’s attorney general urged the General Assembly Monday to provide a right to counsel for low-income tenants in eviction proceedings and outlaw the courts’ statutory authority to order the arrest and possible jailing of people ...
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Saying perjury cannot go unsanctioned, Maryland’s top court has suspended for at least six months a Baltimore lawyer who falsely declared having witnessed a longtime client’s signing of his will when in fact the declaration, in writing, was made after ...
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COVID-19 -inspired concern for personal safety and greater use of email during the pandemic last spring might have contributed to fewer complaints being filed against Maryland attorneys and fewer lawyers failing to respond to bar counsel in fiscal 2020 — ...
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The Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission has charged with misconduct a Bethesda attorney who allegedly tried to cheat the law firm he co-founded out of nearly $15,000 by padding his expense reports. Keith M. Bonner sought compensation from the firm, Bonner ...
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For many Maryland attorneys, the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine and the end of the pandemic cannot come soon enough. But it’s not necessarily the thrill of the courtroom they miss, with jury trials having been suspended in the state ...
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RICHMOND, VA — A Richmond attorney and former Nottoway County prosecutor has been disbarred after admitting he had sex with two clients he was defending in criminal matters. The revocation of B. Thomas Bledsoe comes as a Virginia State Bar ...
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Maryland’s top court has indefinitely suspended a Greenbelt attorney who did not attend the trial of a client accused of causing a car crash, then lied to the client about trying to get the default judgment against him overturned, ignored ...
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Maryland’s attorney general Wednesday called for $22 million in state funds to assist financially strapped Marylanders in need of free legal representation in eviction, foreclosure and debt-collection proceedings amid a resurgent pandemic that has already created widespread economic hardship. Brian ...
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Prosecutors, defense counsel and civil litigators have greeted with frustration but understanding the decision by Maryland’s top jurist to suspend jury trials again, just six weeks after they resumed, due to resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We were running smoothly,” ...
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Judges may not write letters to the Attorney Grievance Commission attesting to the character of their ex-law clerks or other former lawyer-employees facing ethical complaints, lest the jurists’ messages be viewed as applying undue pressure on the lawyer-dominated disciplinary panel, ...
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