Big Maryland law firms have not been immune to the financial ills wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic, with many having resorted to salary reductions, furloughs, and spending cuts in the past two months spurred largely by suspended court proceedings and ...

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As Maryland businesses scramble to understand and respond to the legal implications of the coronavirus pandemic, Baltimore law firms are providing free online resources and services to help.  Firms say hundreds of people have listened to legal webinars or taken ...

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Lawyer directory site Avvo is expanding its reach with a pilot program that will offer fixed-fee legal services.

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I’m making resolutions not to keep up practices that make my life harder and more stressful. What are your not-to-do resolutions for this year?

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Whether he’s meeting a client for dinner, attending a Ravens game or commuting to his downtown Baltimore office, attorney Gerard P. Martin rarely gets behind the wheel of a car or boards a bus, preferring instead to walk to his ...

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We hear much about file security and the importance of having backup systems in place. But we're more concerned about issues right in front of you, instead of taking time to come up with a plan.

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When done right, a blog can be a living, detailed entity that represents you to the world. When done wrong, a blog can be a chore, an unwelcome expense that produces little return on your effort, or even an ethical ...

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The magic in Facebook is in the relatively cheap and precise targeting.

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I’m grateful to the clients who went to the trouble of creating a Yelp profile so that they could leave a review. Unfortunately, you’ll never find those reviews unless you look very, very closely.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. – I am often asked to speak to lawyers about mobile and cloud computing and when I do, members of the audience tend to have lots of questions. That was certainly the case earlier this month when I ...

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