Welcome to Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the first time the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed the day above 10,000. Here are some news items to get your week started. — New York judge dismisses lawsuit because lawyer refused to ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 34th anniversary of an Amtrak train crash with a Conrail freight railroad in Chase, Maryland, that killed 16 passengers. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Working remotely sparks ethics concerns for ...

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Welcome to Tuesday, the 66th anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s dedication of the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington County, Va. The statue commemorates the raising of the American flag by U.S. servicemen on Iwo Jima. Here are some ...

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Welcome to Monday, the 39th anniversary of the London premiere of “Cats.” Here are some news items to get your week started. — Indiana attorney general loses law license for a month over alleged groping. — Could Trump v. Biden ...

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Maryland’s top court has unanimously disbarred a Baltimore lawyer who, the judges concluded, ignored everything about his clients except their retainer payments — which he, in turn, declined to keep in a trust account until earned as required under the ...

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Legal services companies advertise a variety of programs marketed as artificial intelligence to make attorneys' work easier and faster, but the boom in so-called AI has not been accompanied by robust ethics considerations.

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Welcome to Monday, the 32nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Hustler Magazine Inc. v. Falwell that the First Amendment rights to free speech and press prevent public figures from collecting damages for intentional infliction of emotional distress based ...

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ANNAPOLIS – Saying clients are essentially their attorneys’ bosses, Maryland’s top court ruled last week that clients can be held liable under the state’s Consumer Protection Act for their lawyers’ actions, even when the CPA’s “professional service” exception might shield ...

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Applicants for the Maryland bar should forget their legal training and pretend they are trial witnesses when filling out their applications and answering questions from the character committee: Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth — ...

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Here are some news items to get your week started. — Participation in pretrial diversion could be a roadblock to federal employment. — California case questions constitutionality of fining wrongdoers who cannot pay. — Does polygamy violate legal ethics? — ...

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