Over the last decade, and even before, depositions using video became routine. Also, on numerous occasions counsel resorted to deposition by telephone. Indeed, Md. Rule 2-418 explicitly provides for deposition by telephone. The location of the deposition by rule is ...

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Recently, Maryland Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera wrote in State v. Jones: “[W]e adopt today a new rule that will no longer require that accomplice testimony be corroborated by independent evidence to sustain a conviction. We do so in exercise ...

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Did you know you may appeal a Maryland Circuit Court’s appealable order or judgment, including post-trial motions, by seeking an in banc review by three circuit court judges, in lieu of an appeal to the Court of Special Appeals? According ...

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To paraphrase former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Robert H. Jackson, all great lawyers present three arguments for each case: the one they prepare, the one they present, and the one they deliver silently in the car on the ...

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Cleopatra Wilson’s infant daughter fell through a screen door from a second-floor apartment onto a cement balcony below, sustaining serious injuries. Wilson sued the landlord for negligence because he failed to repair the screen door. At trial, Wilson tearfully stares ...

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In the 1980s, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger and others, all admirers of the English Inns of Court, created the American Inns of Court to model in a unique way the professional associations for barristers in London and Wales that ...

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Come with me in your mind’s eye to London, England, May 6, 1840. There in the heart of the Mayfield District lived Lord William Russell. On that particular morning, he did not awake. The maid discovered him in bed, with ...

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You might be surprised to learn that, in certain circumstances, nonsignatories to a contract containing an arbitration clause may be forced to arbitrate. But that’s the law. I would like to share this with you, as reported by one of ...

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Many cases turn on the opinion of the expert witness — the only witness, with few exceptions, permitted to render an opinion about the facts in the case. Because the outcome of your case may depend upon them, selecting experts ...

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Much is written about the dramatic changes in law practice today, how it has ceased to be a profession and morphed into big business with the overriding goal of achieving maximum monetary profit. Fortunately, most lawyers today continue to value ...

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