The number of complaints filed against Maryland lawyers dropped for a second consecutive year and again hit a 10-year low in fiscal 2019, which ended June 30, the Attorney Grievance Commission stated in its recently released annual report. However, the ...

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Maryland’s high court on Tuesday explained its April decision to disbar a solo practitioner for a pattern of mismanaging client funds, failing to appear in court on behalf of clients and failing to respond to requests from bar counsel. Garland ...

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Fewer people filed complaints against Maryland attorneys in fiscal 2018 than they have in the past decade, according to the latest Attorney Grievance Commission annual report. In the last fiscal year, bar counsel received 1,802 complaints, down from 2,061, of ...

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Forty-seven states require their lawyers to take ethics courses to maintain their licenses and we believe that Maryland should do the same.

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The disciplinary woes of a Pikesville family of attorneys grew this week as Maryland’s top court made it less likely that one brother will ever get his law license back, due to misrepresentations to bar counsel, and suspended another for 90 days for failing to safeguard client funds.

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Maryland’s top court has disbarred a Columbia solo practitioner who repeatedly harmed the same client by failing the “basic” duty of serving notice on the two motorists who allegedly struck her vehicle in separate incidents – and then not telling her, even after both claims had been dismissed.

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A NNAPOLIS – Maryland’s top court appears poised to scrap a judge’s order that the state’s bar counsel investigate for potential ethics violations three of Hillary Clinton’s attorneys who were assigned to separate professional from personal messages on the former ...

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Former Bar Counsel Melvin Hirshman, who served nearly 30 years as the chief administrative prosecutor of wayward Maryland attorneys, died Monday of lymphoma at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 85. Hirshman became bar counsel in 1981, just six years ...

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Lydia E. Lawless will take over July 1 as Bar Counsel, Maryland’s chief investigator and administrative prosecutor of attorney misconduct.

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Former Del. Tiffany T. Alston, who was ousted from the House of Delegates in 2012 after being found guilty of theft and misconduct in office and later consented to disbarment, will likely be reinstated to the bar, perhaps as early ...

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