A unanimous Maryland high court has suspended for six months a Baltimore attorney who gave his paralegal too much authority.

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A unanimous Maryland high court has suspended for at least six months and a day an Owings Mills attorney who gave paralegals so much authority to settle personal injury claims that in some cases he did not even know the ...

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WASHINGTON — For years, Wanda Witter has lived on the streets in Washington, D.C., trying to persuade officials that Social Security owes her more than $100,000. For years, the 80-year-old woman says people dismissed her as crazy. But finally someone listened ...

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According to the American Bar Association’s first empirical survey of law school curricula in a decade (which will be released on Aug. 4), 76 percent of law schools surveyed have modified their curricula to adapt to the employment issues our ...

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Lots of people are going back to school these days. While it’s a personal decision whether it’s worth the investment of time and money, it will make you more marketable (the vast majority of the time, at least). Regardless, if ...

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When I was just starting out, most “new lawyer” advice I received included (1) don’t run up the Westlaw/Lexis research bill, and (2) be nice to paralegals and secretaries. Applying the first rule was easy — our firm had an ...

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Probably the toughest part of being a new lawyer is learning when and how to delegate. Like the business side of practicing law, this is one thing that law schools do not prepare you for. It can be even more ...

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