OCEAN CITY — The process of launching a veterans treatment diversionary court in Maryland has, at times, been held up by “bureaucratic and administrative” red tape, panelists at a session on the topic said Friday, but it’s now making concrete ...

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OCEAN CITY — An animation of a skeleton, projected on a screen in a courtroom, hovers in front of the jury. The plaintiff’s lawyer zooms in on a fractured bone while the physician testifying as a witness explains the details ...

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Have a simple story, a straightforward story, a story that appeals to emotion — that’s the key to drawing jurors into your argument during trial, attorney William McDaniel Jr. of Ballard Spahr LLP said during a panel at the Maryland ...

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You can “concentrate your practice” on a particular area of the law, but you can’t “specialize” in it, according to the Maryland Rules — at least, not yet. A proposed amendment to Rule 7.4, which would allow attorneys who become ...

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OCEAN CITY — With a landmark ruling that imposed strict liability on owners of pit bulls and their landlords, talk of the fallout dominated the Animal Rights Law Section’s educational session at the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on ...

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OCEAN CITY — Sixty-four runners braved strong headwinds Friday morning and finished the 23rd annual Young Lawyers Sun Run during the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in Ocean City. In one of the closest finishes in race history, Alan ...

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OCEAN CITY — For same-sex couples, gaining the right to marry is just the beginning of a host of new challenges with federal and state taxes, estate planning and retirement plans. At the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting on ...

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Family law cannot remain divorced from elder law in an age when people are living longer and marrying, splitting up or remarrying in their golden years. The overlapping issues in the legal specialties are simply too numerous, said Jo Benson ...

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At the Maryland State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting, the daily educational sessions teach about law in various ways, from presentations to discussion panels — and even vivid children’s stories told by a pirate. This last technique, of course, is mainly ...

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The Supreme Court term that ends within the next few weeks could go down as among the justices’ boldest sessions ever. The court, which has historically shied away from controversial issues in election years, took them on full bore in ...

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