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Read More »Baltimore considers lawyers for immigrants facing deportation 
March 7, 2018
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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
April 14, 2016
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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Read More »Panel attorneys see austerity cuts repealed, plus 1%
February 18, 2014
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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
November 5, 2013
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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
September 24, 2013
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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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