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The Maryland State Bar Association has moved most of its headquarters to a shared working space in Canton in order save costs and avoid a $3 million deferred maintenance liability as part of its contract for the old space owned by the University of Maryland.

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CLEVELAND — The nation’s three biggest drug distributors and a major drugmaker agreed to an 11th-hour, $260 million settlement Monday over the deadly toll taken by opioids in two Ohio counties, averting what would have been the first federal trial ...

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A Prince George’s County jury has awarded more than $6.2 million to an Annapolis man whose severely injured right leg was belatedly treated at a Cheverly hospital, medical negligence that necessitated the amputation of the leg. The man, who had ...

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Just after Vanina Guerrero joined one of the world’s biggest law firms, she received a late-night email from the star partner who ran her new team at DLA Piper. “You are helping me reach people I couldn’t before,” Louis Lehot, ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has shown interest in hearing a gun rights group’s argument that the Maryland handgun permit law’s requirement that applicants provide the state with a “good and substantial reason” to carry a handgun outside the home violates ...

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A Baltimore man has been sentenced to 75 years in prison for his role in a gun battle that killed a 7-year-old girl.

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The widow of a man who had a fatal heart attack at MGM National Harbor in 2017 is suing the resort, claiming it failed to provide prompt assistance and did not have a defibrillator on site. Donald Boyd went into cardiac ...

Maryland urges high court to deny Adnan’s Syed’s appeal, saying counsel’s failure to investigate alibi witness did not affect podcast star's murder conviction.

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ANNAPOLIS — Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Laura Ripken ruled in a hearing Thursday that defense mental health experts in the Capital Gazette shooting trial will not be made to provide their notes from neurological and psychological testing to ...

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Before Rep. Elijah Cummings made national headlines as a congressman challenging President Trump and tackling world issues, the Baltimore native made waves as an attorney who advocated for more opportunities for black and other minority lawyers in Maryland.