Many news junkies will be keeping an eye on Afghanistan’s national elections Thursday, but for Mike Smith, it’s different. Smith, a Gordon Feinblatt employment lawyer, has met three of the major candidates–incumbent Hamid Karzai and challengers Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah ...

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Normally, I wouldn’t pass along something that is possibly apocryphal, but today I found it apropos. I closed on a mortgage refinancing this morning. The process was relatively painless, just lots of paperwork to sign and initial. Part of the closing ...

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We’re already getting mixed reactions to this story about Michael U. Gisriel’s disbarment. On the one hand, you can’t go around signing your clients’ names and cashing checks made out to them without their permission — even if the check is only for ...

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Today, check out The Daily Record’s first-ever Money issue of Maryland Lawyer, which contains our annual associate salary survey, financial information on the nine firms in Maryland with revenues over $40 million, and stories on the state of the big-firm ...

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I was walking through Circuit Court in Towson today when I passed a gentleman wearing a seersucker jacket. I complimented him, naturally, but it got me thinking again about the legendary but elusive “Full Towson,” the summer suit accessorized by white ...

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Just a couple of years ago, big-firm associates would have rejoiced at the news of a cut in their minimum billable hour requirement. In my reporting on the business of law beat, I got the impression that some of them ...

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If only lawyer-turned-belly dance teacher Rachael Galoob Ortega, aka “Saphira“, lived in Maryland. It could have been our best “Unbillable Hours” feature ever. My favorite law-related anecdote from the story about when she was a lawyer by day and dancer by night: ...

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Humor can be hard to come by in a federal witness murder trial in which one of the defendants faces the death penalty. But this week in Baltimore, the judge and lawyers in the case of Patrick A. Byers Jr., ...

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A new divorce Web site launched last week has that certain something-extra: its own community forum, “I Got Screwed By…”. The forum at Divorce Network is not just where disgruntled ex-spouses go to air grievances about their former partners. It’s ...

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