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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Maryland Bar Counsel Glenn M. Grossman said he will retire as the state’s chief administrative prosecutor of attorney misconduct on Jan. 31.

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Attorney Michael C. Hodes misused trust money, created a conflict of interest, misled investigators and engaged in conduct that “can only be described as dishonest and fraudulent,” a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge concluded in the disciplinary case against him.

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An attorney has been placed on inactive status in Maryland after disciplinary proceedings against him in D.C. were stalled by his diagnosis of depression.

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Denese Dominguez was disbarred by the Court of Appeals in May.

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