For lawyers or law students who want to get out into the world and start a practice, join a practice or who have no idea what to do, my recommendation is simple: start a website or two.

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WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia can collect sales taxes on the rates hotel guests pay for rooms they book through online travel companies, a judge has ruled. The city has been collecting taxes on the wholesale rates that the ...

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Welcome to Monday and the start of the Ravens’ season. But before the (football) birds battle the Bengals, here are some items to discuss while you tailgate.

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Two former firefighters and an ex-police lieutenant are seeking $6.9 million from Baltimore County for having allegedly forced them from their county jobs in violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act.

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For Maryland native Jennifer Reba Edwards, the practice of law has gone to the dogs. Literally. ...

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Should an employer have to pay taxes on the lump-sum payments? ...

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Stacey Wilson Betts of Wilsonville, Ore., took her daughter to see a Justin Bieber concert two years ago. Now she wants $9.2 million as compensation. Betts filed a lawsuit against the tween pop idol for allegedly ruining her hearing. According ...

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Fed up with the number of seemingly preventable police misconduct lawsuits crossing his desk, Baltimore City Solicitor George A. Nilson penned a program designed to use past experience to prevent similar incidents in the future. Nilson’s idea is to analyze ...

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NEW YORK — Facebook is seeking to consolidate the more than 40 lawsuits it faces following its rocky initial public offering of stock last month. In a filing with a judicial panel on Friday, Facebook and the banks overseeing its ...

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NEW YORK — Microsoft, which just bought patents from AOL for $1 billion, is now turning around and selling most of them to Facebook for $550 million. Facebook is buying about 650 of the 925 AOL patents and patent applications ...

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