Former U.S. Rep. Frank M. Kratovil Jr. and David W. “Chip” Gregory, who battled each other in a race for Queen Anne’s County state’s attorney in 2002, are once again competing for the same job. Gregory and Kratovil, who won ...

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With the challenges of training behind me, I still felt no relief running dockets on my own. I had relied too heavily on the guidance of my trainer in fashioning plea offers. There is no formula to it; rather, a ...

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Federal prosecutors say a prominent state senator sold his office to help a grocery store chain, but the senator’s lawyers say he arranged meetings but did nothing illegal. Attorneys gave opening statements on Tuesday in a federal case in Baltimore ...

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The scene: Closing arguments in an auto negligence case, being tried on liability first. Plaintiff’s attorney (me) goes first: “Your honor, the defendant’s story that my client was making a U-turn on a road with one lane in each direction just ...

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Two weeks after I began in the state’s attorney’s office, the empty cubicle to my left became occupied by Pedro Shultz, a former law clerk with the judge I clerked for. Pedro was a former courtroom clerk and decided to ...

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Agreeing with judges themselves and the Maryland State Bar Association, the Judicial Compensation Commission vowed to recommend that the General Assembly give the state’s judges a raise. At their meeting Wednesday evening, members did not have any formal proposals for ...

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“You gotta grow a thick skin pretty fast in this line a work,” he said. I turned around and there stood a police officer leaning on the door to the liaison’s office where my showdown with seersucker ensued. He stood ...

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Experience is a valuable teacher. Oftentimes, as a young attorney, I’m pegged by prospective clients as appearing inexperienced. “You look young,” is a common comment upon seeing me for the first time. As a 26-year-old attorney, I don’t fault that perception. ...

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I managed to survive my first criminal docket, but only by a hair. The good news was we finished the docket by noon. The bad news was I had to drop half of the cases — and I lost all ...

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PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer filed an appeal Wednesday with the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling that put on hold key parts of the state’s immigration enforcement law. The appeal comes as Brewer faced a deadline for ...

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