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Read More »Baltimore considers lawyers for immigrants facing deportation
Baltimore's spending panel is set to vote on funding that would allow the first lawyers who will represent immigrants facing deportation to start within weeks.
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Read More »Supreme Court to swear in large group of deaf lawyers
WASHINGTON — Mobile phones ordinarily are strictly forbidden in the marble courtroom of the nation’s highest court, but the justices are making an exception next week when roughly a dozen deaf and hard-of-hearing lawyers will be admitted to the Supreme ...
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Read More »Enough already, judge tells wordy attorneys
Lawyers who don’t write succinctly have been taken to task by yet another judge.
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Read More »Bail, day 1: ‘Very few glitches’
By order of Maryland’s highest court, District Court commissioners at 8 a.m. Tuesday began telling people awaiting their initial bail hearing that they have the right to an attorney and if they could not afford a lawyer, one would be appointed for them.
Read More »Panel attorneys see austerity cuts repealed, plus 1%
Private attorneys who handle federal public defender cases in U.S. courts will be paid at least $16 per hour more beginning March 1, marking the end of a six-month austerity program by the federal judiciary to save the criminal defense program from “permanent damage.”
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Read More »Before judge sued judge, he sued his lawyer
Judge Kenneth Johnson's $2.5 million legal malpractice suit alleged his lawyer failed to notify him of developments in his case.
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Read More »The perils of youth for attorneys
I’m about to turn 27. Some mornings when I get out of bed I hear a little creaking sound —only it’s not coming from the wooden bedposts. It’s starting to take just the slightest bit longer to recover from a sore muscle nowadays. And while my memory continues to be one of my strongest assets, I occasionally blank on items I could recall instantaneously in the past.
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Read More »Three tips for new attorneys
What tips would you offer to young and less-experienced attorneys?
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