September 17, 2012 Comments Off on Need a job? Get connected
We all know the job market is tough for new lawyers out there. The general wisdom is something like why-in-the-world-would-you-go-into-massive-debt-to-become-a-blood-sucking-lawyer-who-can’t-even-find-a-job. I never bought into that advice (often given by lawyers), but perhaps my worldview is somewhat more optimistic. When I ...
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Read More »September 17, 2012 Comments Off on Law blog roundup
Welcome to Monday, the 225th anniversary of the Constitution, the sesquicentennial of the Battle of Antietam and the first day of the Jewish New Year 5773.
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Read More »September 16, 2012 Comments Off on False arrest, beating claims settled for $500K
A Baltimore grandfather who was beaten while in jail with his wife on allegedly trumped-up charges of kidnapping their grandchild will receive $500,000 from the city under an out-of-court settlement approved last week.
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Read More »September 16, 2012 Comments Off on Opinions – 9/17/12: Maryland Court of Special Appeals
Civil Procedure Motion to withdraw as counsel BOTTOM LINE: The circuit court’s order rejecting an attorney’s request to withdraw as counsel in a civil action is appealable under the collateral order doctrine. CASE: In The Matter of the Motion of ...
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Former and current law school deans discussed theoretical ways to cut tuition Thursday, but none had concrete plans for slashing the rising cost of legal education.
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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Civil Procedure, Demand for jury trial: A case information report form is neither a “paper” nor a “pleading” and it is, therefore, not a proper means of demanding a civil jury trial pursuant to Rule 2-325. ...
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Read More »September 16, 2012 Comments Off on Number of women judges on the rise in Md., but still under 40 percent
The story comes from a time before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor took her seat, astronaut Sally Ride took flight and Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the gavel at the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Read More »September 16, 2012 Comments Off on NLRB scrutinizing at-will agreements
In most American workplaces, at-will employment clauses in employee handbooks and agreements are as common as break room water coolers.
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Read More »September 16, 2012 Comments Off on A ban on tax-funded gender bias
Although she spent 14 years on Maryland’s highest court, retired Court of Appeals Judge Irma S. Raker says one of her most memorable decisions came in a sex discrimination case she heard as a Montgomery County circuit judge in 1984.
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