While it will always be true that what’s good for the goose (male) is good for the gander (female), it is not always true that what’s good for the macroeconomy is necessarily good for the microeconomy – family-owned businesses, in ...
Tagged with: Christopher Helmrath
Read More »The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created Internal Revenue Code Section 199A, which allows for an income tax deduction generally equal to 20% of a taxpayer’s share of income from a pass-through entity (a sole proprietorship, an S ...
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It is no secret that I am a full believer in second chances. As someone who has always been drawn to people who have achieved greatly in part due to a chance at redemption, I am inspired to see people ...
Tagged with: Dorie Fain
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A small but important drama escaped notice because of the hubbub surrounding Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s “Healthy Holly” book deals. Two days after the deals first made the news, newly appointed Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison traveled to Annapolis in ...
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(Fifth of five parts) Welcome back to our discussion of how young lawyers can carve out a successful path for themselves in their practice of law. In this final installment on the topic, I offer two tips for consideration. Initially, ...
Tagged with: Paul Mark Sandler
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The Maryland Rules Committee is considering new proposed Standards of Conduct for Mediators that will replace existing standards that apply to court-referred alternative dispute resolution (Court ADR Standards) and reconcile a second set of practice standards, the Maryland Program for ...
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Maryland law guarantees all voters a secret ballot, including the blind. Sadly, however, the Maryland State Board of Elections has deliberately and repeatedly violated Maryland law and the rights of blind voters, despite our repeated protests. We are therefore urgently ...
Tagged with: blind voters maryland elections Ronza Othman secret ballot
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Our country’s most prestigious medical experts, representing more than 4 million health care providers, have voiced serious concerns over a recently published Trump administration Title X regulation that if implemented would put women at-risk of receiving inferior medical care by lifting ...
Tagged with: family planning Lynn Durbin Planned Parenthood Title X Trump administration
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Kenneth Cloke is a mediator and coach in the field of conflict resolution, a profession that he and Joan Goldsmith created and are in the process of developing. In his book “Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy,” Cloke — ...
Tagged with: bernie mayer joan goldsmith kenneth cloke lawrence susskind
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When I started writing about the intersection of law and technology in 2006, emojis were a sidebar in the world of communication. Until the release of the first smartphone, the iPhone, emojis were typically used only in certain online chat ...
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