The Motor Vehicle Administration plans to use computer technology to end the delay between an administrative law judge’s revocation or suspension of a driver’s license and the time the decision is reported to MVA. The agency said some penalized motorists ...

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Looks like my guide on how to become a clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court is now at least a two-part series. In Part One, I told you the importance of coming from a top-10 law school. Today’s lesson: have ...

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The first leg of my summer vacation involved a 14-hour drive to Florida with just me and a golden retriever. (Don’t ask.) The conversations tended to be a little one-sided, but 95 South is painfully efficient, and we made it ...

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The kids are back to school and you’re at work. Take a minute to check out some law links to start the week. Copyright laws might prevent public consumption of the Savory collection — a treasure trove of jazz recordings ...

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Now that the blogger behind Law is 4 Losers and Big Debt Small Law has outed himself, deleted both blogs and is getting quoted by mainstream media for the theory that law school is “really just a big Ponzi scheme” (HT: ...

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Can the Maryland Judiciary serve as a useful model for the U.S. Supreme Court? Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., seems to think so. Leahy, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, has said he might introduce legislation to enable retired justices ...

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We’re in for another hot one this week. Here are some law blog links to keep you from overheating. The Baltimore Injury Lawyer Blog congratulates U.S. District Judge Peggy Leen for her terse, but tasteful, rebuke of some lawyers for ...

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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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I’ve never been to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, but it’s near Duke, so naturally I must root against it under any circumstances. (Go Terps!) I was doubly delighted, then, upon learning that the airport had conceded defeat in a six-year battle ...

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“A Maryland newspaper.” Really, The Wall Street Journal? You write about news The Daily Record broke, and you credit “a Maryland newspaper”? What, your story ran over by a line so you had to cut out our name? Or maybe ...

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