Amid the pandemic, Maryland should permit bar applicants to forgo this fall’s online exam and be admitted if they have graduated from an American Bar Association accredited law school, pass the state’s existing tests of professional responsibility and Maryland law, ...

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Criminal cases will be scheduled before civil litigation when jury trials resume Oct. 5 if all goes according to plan amid uncertainty about COVID-19’s resilience and the likely need for social distancing well into the fall, the chair of Maryland’s ...

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Maryland courts remain at least 11 weeks away from resuming jury trials, a nearly three-month span that will deepen the backlog of cases wrought by the Judiciary’s effort to ensure that justice is not unduly delayed as it seeks to ...

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Maryland’s chief provider of grants to groups offering free legal aid to low-income residents faces a nearly $7 million pandemic-driven shortfall, the executive director of the Maryland Legal Services Corp. said Thursday. To recover the losses, MLSC will try to ...

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The two-day Maryland bar exam originally scheduled for the end of July at the Baltimore Convention Center will be administered online Oct. 5 and 6 due to continuing concern about spreading the COVID-19 virus, the State Board of Law Examiners ...

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The U.S. Small Business Administration lawfully rejected Tradeways Ltd.’s request for a paycheck protection loan because the Annapolis-based defense company’s owner is seeking bankruptcy protection, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander called the SBA’s prohibition ...

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A constitutional challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan’s safer-at-home orders has been rendered moot by a relaxation in his pandemic-compelled directives and negated by a U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding restrictions on attendance at houses of worship amid the COVID-19 virus, ...

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In-court proceedings can resume Monday morning on a limited basis in Maryland’s federal courthouses, including the scheduling of jury trials and the likely resumption of grand juries, Chief U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar said this week as the state ...

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Maryland’s top court Wednesday approved the expanded use of remote video participation in civil litigation — particularly in district court and pretrial proceedings — and not just during the pandemic-compelled court closures but for all time. By voice vote, the ...

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The State Board of Elections has urged a federal court to reject the Green and Libertarian parties’ request to be relieved of Maryland’s requirement that they collect thousands more signatures to place their candidate’s names on November’s general election ballot, ...

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