Everyone seems to be on vacation. Between attorneys in my office, opposing counsel, clients and potential witnesses, litigation departments and courthouses should simply shut down ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure, Illegal sentence: Defendant’s conviction and sentence for assault with intent to murder were illegal because that crime was not contained in the indictment returned by the grand jury. Johnson v. State, No. 84, September ...

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Two groups of prosecutors in Baltimore are combining forces to create a Special Victims Unit, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein said Friday.

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Contested child custody cases can be short and sweet, long and contentious or somewhere in the middle. The majority of my cases fall in the “somewhere in the middle”...

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Sometimes I long for the days when I could walk into work, focus 95 percent of my energy on casework, and have few other job-related worries. That longing hits me fleetingly, once every month or so. Being a solo is ...

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When I was a kid, I ate up mysteries. I collected code and cipher books, had an Apple Jacks decoder, read every Sherlock Holmes story I could find and played both Clue and Master Detective Clue (I was always Professor ...

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One of the partners at my law firm is a walking legal database. Whether I need to know a case dealing with fiduciary duties of a prior owner of a company or the last case in Maryland dealing with notices ...

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An insider’s perspective on the U.S. Supreme Court was the most-read On the Record blog post of 2011. Readers also checked out a judge’s sense of humor in the Jewish Times bankruptcy case, why “Huckleberry Finn” shouldn’t be censored and ...

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To say that I am active in bar associations would be an understatement. I’m a bar junkie. I know it. I enjoy going to bar association meetings. I like meeting other attorneys (especially when they are not opposing counsel to ...

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ANNAPOLIS — They line up before the doors open, needing help in areas they never imagined — cash assistance, unemployment, food stamps. In the lobby of the Maryland Legal Aid office, attorneys scramble to find chairs for an overflow of ...

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