Among a flurry of endorsement e-mails I received yesterday from the campaign of Baltimore County executive candidate Joe Bartenfelder, one stood out. “BARTENFELDER’S RUN FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE ENDORSED BY SUZANNE MENSH, LONG-STANDING ELECTED OFFICIAL,” the headline read. The press release ...

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I’ve been working on a story about contested judicial elections and coincidentally came across a story about such a race in Oklahoma. (Shameless self-promotion: my story is slated for our Aug. 9 Maryland Lawyer.) John Mantooth was running for a seat in ...

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Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler might soon be getting a call from Gov. Martin O’Malley, if he hasn’t already received one, seeking a campaign donation. The governor, in his solicitation, might raise the following points: Gansler is running unopposed ...

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Well, this could get awkward. Alison Asti, who filed Monday to run for a seat on the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, is a past president of the Maryland State Bar Association. So, do you think she can count ...

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When former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich opened the Baltimore office of Womble Carlyle about a month after leaving office three years ago, taking key legal and public relations staff with him, there were those who wondered about the move: Was it ...

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Happy still snowed-in Monday! The roads are ugly, but the round-up goes on! Here are a few law links to start your week. Here’s to digging out by the next snowfall! Everything was closed this weekend, but the LSAT at ...

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On the heels of Attorney General Doug Gansler’s call to end the popular election of circuit court judges comes an article in the latest University of Baltimore Law Forum with some additional recommendations on how to reform the system. Retired ...

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Good afternoon. Here are some Web nuggets to nosh on to help fight that case of the Mondays: Bryan Sears with the Patuxent newspapers reports on a pair of Baltimore County lawyers who might exert some influence on next year’s ...

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I wrote about the newest appointments to the Baltimore County Circuit Court bench in today’s paper. Once S. Ann Brobst and John J. Nagle III are seated, the county will have 17 circuit court judges. The county is still due ...

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Many news junkies will be keeping an eye on Afghanistan’s national elections Thursday, but for Mike Smith, it’s different. Smith, a Gordon Feinblatt employment lawyer, has met three of the major candidates–incumbent Hamid Karzai and challengers Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah ...

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