Ben England, the founder and CEO of Benjamin L. England & Associates, is scheduled to deliver a speech at MSBA’s legal summit on June 15 on how improving the way you treat your staff at a traditional law firm, translates to how your staff treats clients.

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I understand there are advertising rules for a few other professions but, in my opinion, none are as stringent as the ones by which we must adhere.

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Bikers rolled into Annapolis to support a bill that would require police be instructed not to profile them based solely on their membership in a motorcycle organization.

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Education Management Corp., the second-largest U.S. for-profit college operator, agreed to settle whistleblower lawsuits in which it’s accused of illegal recruiting practices for $95.5 million, the largest such accord in American history, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said. The company ...

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A couple of years ago, Whiteford Taylor & Preston, one of Maryland’s largest law firms, decided to offer clients alternatives to paying their bills by the hour. Since then, business is up, their attorneys are busier and officials with the Baltimore-based, general practice law firm are convinced they made the right decision.

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“Most schools in Maryland, if not all, offer criminal justice curriculum,” said Patrick Bradley, chairman of the criminal justice and legal studies department at the University of Maryland University College. “It’s a very popular area.”

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After 44 years and some high-profile cases, Baltimore’s Fisher & Winner law firm partners were itching for a change. “Charles Winner was the remaining name partner and he retired last year, so it was upon his retirement that the firm ...

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The owner of Alpha Diagnostics, already facing charges for running a scheme to defraud Medicare, now faces life in prison after four patients died because their X-rays were not reviewed by a qualified radiologist, federal prosecutors announced Friday. A superseding indictment against Rafael Chikvashvili, 67, of Baltimore, alleges the X-rays were instead reviewed by employees of the mobile diagnostic services company who failed to detect "congestive heart failure, pneumonia, and a large pelvic mass revealed in the images."

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A federal jury has found in favor of two police officers in a civil lawsuit brought by a woman who alleged she was arrested and assaulted after filming the officers beating and arresting someone else.

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Sometimes, we need to be willing to make sacrifices and do things we would not ordinarily do in order to make ends meet while we pursue our dreams.

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