This week, I attended a firm party held at one of the partner’s houses. The party was to celebrate the softball team’s advancing to the lawyer league playoffs. When the email invitation went out, I eagerly accepted because I find ...

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Pebblebrook Hotel Trust of Bethesda, a lodging real estate investment trust, said it completed its previously announced acquisition of a 49 percent interest in a joint venture that owns six upper upscale hotels in Manhattan, valued at $910 million. The ...

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Shale D. Stiller, a partner at Baltimore’s DLA Piper LLP, has been honored with the American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Fourth Circuit. The annual award is presented on a federal circuit basis nationwide to lawyers or judges ...

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Kenneth Thompson has left DLA Piper US to join Venable LLP as a partner in its Baltimore office. The trial lawyer, with experience in commercial, product liability and white collar cases, is counsel to Ekistics LLC, the managing member of ...

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Christopher S. Gunderson has joined Saul Ewing as an associate in the litigation department, in the Baltimore office. He focuses his practice on insurance and commercial litigation matters. Gunderson is active in bar associations and mentor programs, including as a ...

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Since the day William J. Murphy opened his litigation practice in 1984, he estimates he’d fielded more than 25 overtures to fold his firm into another one. None of them interested him. None, that is, until Martin S. Himeles Jr. ...

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Six months after the dissolution of Lord & Whip P.A., the firm’s last four partners reconvened for a reunion probably none of them wanted to attend. The four lawyers — John J. Boyd, Kathleen M. Bustraan, Jennifer S. Lubinski and ...

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