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David Boies has had an illustrious legal career, representing, unsuccessfully, Al Gore before the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore and, on the winning side in the high court, the same-sex plaintiffs seeking a constitutional right to wed. Now, at ...

From its invocation in the headline of unsheared “sheep” to the description in its final sentence of Baltimore as a “lawless enclave,” the Dec. 8 work product of The Daily Record’s esteemed Editorial Advisory Board grossly deviated from the board’s ...

Baltimore is a very dangerous city. Mayor Catherine Pugh recently said homicides and violent crimes against people are out of control. There is no sense blaming the police, the Judiciary, the mayor the schools, or any other institution because the blame ...

Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter has just been laid to rest after being shot in the head by his own service weapon. The vicious killing of the 18-year veteran occurred more than two weeks ago, and despite a $215,000 reward ...

By now, almost everyone has learned the Texas church shooter was not allowed, under federal law, to possess a firearm. Despite the prohibition found in 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) that prevents a person convicted of domestic violence from possessing a ...

For the last five years, former Court of Appeals Judge Glenn Harrell and others have advocated before the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate for the enactment of legislation that would permit plaintiffs who prevail in suits brought in our ...

Recently, a special advisory committee appointed by the Judiciary recommended Maryland adopt the Uniform Bar Examination. We agree. Last year, we urged adoption of the UBE. In view of the recommendations of the advisory committee, we believe it is appropriate ...

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once wrote “there is not under our Constitution a judicial remedy for every political mischief, for every undesirable exercise of legislative power.” U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz might easily have included those words earlier ...

Two years ago, we asked: “Why is Judge Nance allowed to continue sitting on the bench?” Finally, the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities has come to a conclusion, based in large part on the Braxton case that prompted our editorial, ...

Every October since 2009, the American Bar Association recognizes the vital role pro bono lawyers play in the legal services delivery system during the National Celebration of Pro Bono week, which officially begins Oct. 22. In Maryland, many of the ...