Maryland’s top attorney and judge Thursday urged the state’s 40,000 lawyers to represent at least one low-income litigant for free or to volunteer hours of legal services during the next year to help the growing number of people facing bankruptcy, ...

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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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At a free clinic in west Baltimore on Friday, volunteer lawyers helped at least 150 people begin the process of expunging marijuana possession convictions from their records. The clinic, held at the Liberty Rec & Tech Center on Maine Avenue, ...

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The Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service has received $200,000 from the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development for its low-income homeowners’ program. The grant, which was nearly $45,000 more than what MVLS received last year for the program, allowed the ...

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Facing a third eviction notice from her east Baltimore home, Lennea Anderson stood out from the 40 other tenants in Baltimore’s rent court last Thursday, as she had a volunteer lawyer from the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland (PBRC) ...

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Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service announced Monday that it has received a $25,000 grant from the Venable Foundation to assist with the nonprofit’s Human Trafficking Prevention Project. This is the second consecutive year that MVLS has received the funding from the ...

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Facing a 10-day suspension for bringing a bottle of pepper spray to school that accidentally went off in a locker room last year, ninth-grade student Jewel Agu and her mom Terryce Elliott were worried Agu might have to miss more class than the week she was already suspended, or be forced to leave Dundalk High School altogether, which they felt was an unfair punishment.

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The executive director of the largest provider of pro bono civil legal services in Maryland announced her retirement Thursday after 11 years in the role. In an interview, Bonnie Sullivan said she will leave the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service at ...

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While pro bono work is often litigation-oriented, attorneys at Ballard Spahr LLP took on two community redevelopment projects that required the expertise and resources of sophisticated transactional lawyers. Both projects are now under construction. The attorneys advised on financing, tax ...

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The Maryland bar gave nearly 11,000 more hours in pro bono work in 2017 compared to the previous year, and attorneys increased their contributions to legal services organizations, according to an annual report from the Maryland Judiciary released this week. ...

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