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Applicants for the Maryland bar should forget their legal training and pretend they are trial witnesses when filling out their applications and answering questions from the character committee: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth — ...

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Retired Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. said Monday that he had been looking for “a new challenge” when Gov. Larry Hogan appointed him last week to a reconstituted University of Maryland Medical System board recently beset ...

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OCEAN CITY — The rapidly changing landscape of marijuana decriminalization has caused “mass confusion” and legal issues in Maryland workplaces, requiring employers and employees to be aware of ongoing developments, lawyers said Friday at a panel discussion at the Maryland ...

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International Business Machines Corp. will pay Maryland $2.8 million to settle claims against the technology company related to the failed rollout of the state’s health exchange in 2013, the state attorney general’s office stated Friday. IBM, following its purchase of ...

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OCEAN CITY — A room full of attorneys and judges received a primer on implicit bias and how it is manifested in court at the Maryland State Bar Association Legal Summit and Annual Meeting on Thursday. Implicit bias describes subconscious ...

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Not all lawyers crave the combat of courtroom litigation. Many prefer conversation over confrontation, deliberation over deposition, and research and writing over wrangling. They are appellate attorneys. Their focus is not on objecting to opposing counsel’s question or a witness’s ...

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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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Towson attorney Dana O. Williams will take over as president of the Maryland State Bar Association at a time when changes implemented by the organization a couple of years ago have begun to bear fruit. Williams, a partner at Heisler ...

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While pro bono work is often litigation-oriented, attorneys at Ballard Spahr LLP took on two community redevelopment projects that required the expertise and resources of sophisticated transactional lawyers. Both projects are now under construction. The attorneys advised on financing, tax ...

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Pessin Katz P.A.’s promotion of Lauren B. Ades to chair the Corporate and Real Estate practice group is a historical move: Ades is the first woman to lead the group in the firm’s 30-year history. Ades, who became practice group ...

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