ANNAPOLIS — Maryland hospitals will take a new crack at getting lawmakers to create a fund to compensate families of babies injured during birth, an attempt that has taken on new urgency following a record $229 million verdict against Johns ...

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Alexander & Cleaver, a well-known Annapolis lobbying firm, is suing more than a half-dozen clients who bolted and hired lobbyists that had defected from the venerable lobbying practice.

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Robert J. Zarbin, a trial lawyer who served in leadership roles on many professional associations and mentored many young attorneys, died Saturday following an illness. He was 56. Zarbin, an Upper Marlboro solo practitioner, served as the co-chair of the ...

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Maryland lawmakers are considering a package of bills aimed at reducing some of the additional damage of drug use – including infections and injuries and crime that accompanies the drug trade – by giving addicts a safe place to use ...

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Legislation that would create a special fund for the care of babies who suffer neurological injuries during birth has be reintroduced in the Maryland General Assembly, setting the stage for another showdown between hospitals and the state’s trial lawyers. Delegate ...

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For the second time in two years, a state work group is recommending that Maryland establish a special fund so the families of babies injured during birth can be compensated without filing malpractice claims. But questions linger about how best ...

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Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown is the choice of Maryland trial lawyers to be the state's next governor.

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This job, I hope, will never get old. Every new case brings something new.

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How do we familiarize ourselves sufficiently with issues presented to adequately advise and represent our client?

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A Towson attorney was killed in a car accident in England earlier this week while on vacation with his family. Stephen J. Hughes, a partner at Treanor, Pope & Hughes P.A., died along with his two sons-in-law Monday in a ...

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