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The best brand managers, and you are all managers of your brand in some fashion, are those who can write or tell compelling narratives to give clients/customers/donors an emotional connection to the brand. From the early childhood experiences of “tell ...

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Because of COVID-19, many of us are working remotely. Fortunately, in Maryland we operate in an environment in which documents may be drafted, negotiated, executed, acknowledged, and recorded from the comforts of our homes. In Maryland documents are generally not ...

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One of The Daily Record Editorial Advisory Board members was recently reviewing a contract to renew employee retirement benefits. The member was surprised that in 2020 a large national company would provide a contract that used all male pronouns, with ...

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In a word, 2020, has turned into a year that can best be summarized as – wow. Who among us would have imagined all that would come to be in the first six months of this year? Even in my ...

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In mid-March this year, shortly before St. Patrick’s Day, Gov. Larry Hogan ordered that the state’s restaurants be closed to stop COVID-19 from spreading. There were widespread complaints by owners and threats to disobey the governor’s orders. I received a ...

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Whenever an economic crisis breaks out, it is always easier for government to respond with a short-term solution than come up with a long-term remedy. Perhaps this attitude describes the approach that the U.S. federal and state officials have taken ...

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Lexico, the online collaboration between Dictionary.com and Oxford University Press, defines “legalese” as “the formal and technical language of legal documents that is often hard to understand.” I had a chuckle when I read that, given that the purpose of ...

Enough already. The commentary on the Michael Flynn-Judge Emmett Sullivan matter makes me wonder whether anyone actually reads filings and cases before they opine on the pages of once-august publications. And it starts with the deeply uninformed op-ed by the former federal ...

MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society, is calling for action to address the tragic and ongoing public health crisis of racism in Maryland and across America. The COVID-19 pandemic has tragically demonstrated the health disparities experienced by communities of color. ...

The world as we know it has been forever changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts have been closed to the public for an unprecedented 10 weeks and counting, and litigants are left with little certainty on when they may get ...

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