Maryland Daily Record Maryland's trusted source for business and legal news

Hiring and retaining lateral partners is integral to the growth strategies of major law firms. Ensuring lateral partner engagement and satisfaction is essential for retention of these new additions. Partners exploring the market and law firms courting them can make ...

Tagged with: Lateral Partner Satisfaction Survey Randi Lewis

Several years ago, I became convinced that saving passwords in a notebook or Excel spreadsheet wasn’t the safest way to go. At that time, having a smartphone was still new to me. I relied on an employee in my office ...

Tagged with: Dorie Fain

The months of January and February are the best times of year to look for a job. Companies have new budgets, workers have returned from their holiday vacations and employers have a backlog of hiring that needs to be done. ...

Tagged with: Laura Rubenstein

Charities are always in need of and grateful for corporate donations for their philanthropic causes. These gifts are often strategic donations without any expectation of a commercial gain and are not mentioned in the company’s sales or advertising campaigns. On ...

Tagged with: Glenda LeGendre Modern Marketing

The Maryland Public Policy Conflict Resolution Fellows program recently allowed me to connect with colleagues from the court system, the community, the nonprofit sector and government. As I shared with my colleagues in this prestigious fellowship, guide dogs have helped ...

Tagged with: gary norman guide dogs

Elizabeth Warren’s biggest applause line at Tuesday night’s Democratic debate had all the road-tested messaging appeal of a pink-pussyhatted women’s march. Gesturing to the male candidates on the stage, she whipped out some math: “Collectively (the men) have lost 10 ...

At a recent ceremony heralding the completion of the first Purple Line track mile, Gov. Larry Hogan highlighted Maryland’s infrastructure leadership, saying the state was “setting an example for the rest of the nation.” The light-rail project is the largest ...

Good financial advice leaves you better off. Bad advice does the opposite, and may even enrich someone else at your expense. Here are some areas where you need to be particularly careful to seek out good advice, since bad advice ...

Yes, a new year has begun. The perfect time for transitions, fresh starts – in short, time to reflect and begin with a clean slate. Coinciding with the new year, I’ve just returned from Iceland, a foreign land so foreign ...

Tagged with: veronica cool

Rejecting calls for leniency from members of the Maryland General Assembly, U.S. District Court judge Theodore Chuang sentenced former Del. Tawanna Gaines to six months in prison after she pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud for taking money ...