In Baltimore, 16 percent of adults lack basic literacy skills, according to the most recent estimate from the National Center for Education Statistics. For the last 21 years, Shelly Abrams has volunteered at the South Baltimore Learning Center in hopes ...

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WASHINGTON — Not that long ago, Paul Clement would regularly stand before Supreme Court and defend even the most aggressive uses of federal power, making his case without written notes and parrying questions with an easy banter. Now, he’s arguing ...

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Being a 9-year-old can be tough. Sometimes you have to pick up the toys in your room. Sometimes you have to solve multiplication tables for homework. And sometimes you have to go in for jury duty. Well, that’s the way ...

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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania prosecutors were ordered Tuesday to turn over to Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer the phone numbers and addresses of those who have accused the former Penn State assistant football coach of sexually abusing them as children. That includes ...

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A Maryland lawyer was disbarred for having submitted altered law firm promotional materials and correspondence to Washington, D.C. bar officials to conceal her years of noncompliance with the District of Columbia’s disclosure rule for attorneys not licensed there. Maryland’s highest ...

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When I began preparations to go solo four months ago, the most important thing I did was to create a business plan. I didn’t think I had time to do it— I would have rather continued to prepare my forms, ...

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A Baltimore lawyer was arrested in West Virginia last week and charged with drug possession and intent to distribute after police allegedly found narcotics and paraphernalia in his car. Noah Thomas Lowery-Clugston, 33, was arrested last Monday in Berkeley County ...

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The man accused of fatally shooting Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor during a 2007 burglary has fired his lawyer one month before his murder trial. Eric Rivera Jr. gave the Miami-Dade County, Fla., judge a letter Friday explaining his reasons ...

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They are calling him a “legal Rambo” and “a Wild West divorce attorney gone rogue.” A New Mexico lawyer was sentenced to 30 days in prison for breaking into the home of his client’s ex-husband,the Alamogordo Daily News reports. Video ...

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I was in Greenbelt on Monday for a motions hearing in U.S. District Court as local counsel in a patent and trademark case. Counsel from California argued the motions. I viewed my presence at the hearing as necessary procedurally but ...

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