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Earlier this month my wife and I appeared for what is probably the happiest of all court proceedings: the adoption hearing.
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Read More »Attorney combines practicing with helping to run horse farm
Rebekah Damen Lusk and her husband get up with the sun every day. Lusk puts the teapot on and heads outside to feed 10 horses.
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Read More »Setting myself up for next Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a classic reminder for us to take a break to reflect on what we are thankful for. But what about the next day?
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Read More »Former Anne Arundel councilman reinstated to bar, petitions top court for seat back
Maryland’s top court has reinstated to the state bar a former — and perhaps future — Anne Arundel County Council member Daryl D. Jones, who had consented in February to suspension of his law license after his conviction last year of failing to file an income tax return.
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Read More »Disgraced ex-AG in Ohio loses bid to salvage law license
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Marc Dann, who resigned as Ohio’s attorney general in 2008 amid a sexual harassment scandal, was ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday to give up his law license for six months. The court’s decision was ...
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Read More »Stein joins Whiteford Taylor
Theodore P. Stein has joined Whiteford Taylor & Preston's business and litigation practice in Bethesda.
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Read More »Unresolved judgment lien costs lawyer $176K
A Baltimore County jury has awarded damages of more than $176,000 against a longtime Pikesville lawyer who erroneously assured a client that a judgment lien on his Howard County home had been discharged in bankruptcy.
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Read More »The pluses and minuses of partnership
One lawyer says to be sure a 'proffered proffered partnership position is indeed a prize, not a trap.'
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Read More »Lawyer from Baltimore gets jail time, probation in W.Va. fraud
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Maryland man who admitted defrauding clients while working as a lawyer in West Virginia will spend four months in jail and five years on probation. Berkeley County Circuit Court Judge Gray Silver sentenced 37-year-old Kenneth J. ...
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Read More »Legal battles (literally) in Pakistan
Next time you think you had a bad day in the office, consider the plight of lawyers in eastern Pakistan.
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