A few government and politics headlines around the state.

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HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland Democratic Party is seeking a congressional ethics investigation of Rep. Roscoe Bartlett’s employment of state Republican Party chairman Alex Mooney while Mooney was also a candidate for the Maryland Republican’s seat. Democratic Party Executive Director David ...

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How would your company deal with a situation in which a general counsel had a financial conflict of interest?

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WASHINGTON — The top lawyer at the National Labor Relations Board violated federal ethics rules by helping investigate a case involving Wal-Mart Stores Inc. despite holding a financial interest in the company, the board’s inspector general has found. NLRB Inspector ...

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I was flattered to hear that my blogging had been used as an example — thankfully a “how to,” not a “how not to” example — during a presentation at the Professional Development Consortium’s Summer Conference that addressed ...

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For many journalists, making the transition into a law career is an easy, if not common one. That is, unless you are disgraced former reporter Stephen Glass. Glass made waves in the media world in 1998 after it was discovered ...

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Pro tip for lawyers: Don’t tell anyone about college football players trading football memorabilia for tattoos. Well, at least not if you heard the gossip during a client meeting. Ohio attorney Christopher Cicero will lose his law license for six months, ...

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A spokeswoman for Gov. Martin O’Malley said Wednesday that the announcement of a special legislative session — likely the week of May 14 — could come in the next day or two. Today is the second of those two days. ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola is being reprimanded for an ethics violation linked to his employment by a Washington lobbying firm from 2001-03. The Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics confirmed Thursday it sent the Montgomery County Democrat ...

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WASHINGTON — A government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe of the National Labor Relations Board after finding that more inside information was leaked to a former adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a Democratic lawmaker said Thursday. Maryland ...

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