An estates attorney who apparently let his anger trump his ethical obligations received a reprimand Friday from Maryland’s top court. To the Court of Appeals, Benjamin J. Woolery’s lapse was not so much selling a tractor and backhoe for nearly ...

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ANNAPOLIS — A leading voice on the legalized use of marijuana for medical purposes was formally and unanimously reprimanded by the House of Delegates Friday for improper actions related to his work as a consultant for a company seeking a ...

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A retired Harford County Circuit Court judge received a private reprimand last month for not requesting that a judge from a jurisdiction other than Harford County hear his traffic violation case. Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr., who served as on ...

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A private reprimand was issued to the chief judge of the Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court earlier this month for receiving commissions as a real estate agent for properties that were part of estates overseen by the court. Nancy Phelps, ...

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The Court of Appeals has reprimanded an attorney who used “egregiously unprofessional,” profane and derogatory language in letters to a client who was also his sister-in-law.

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The Maryland Court of Appeals said Lance Butler III “stuck his head in the sand” while Bar Counsel attempted to contact him over the course of about a year.

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A 72-year-old attorney with a previously untarnished record has been reprimanded by the Court of Appeals for ignoring a writ of garnishment against his client’s funds.

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WASHINGTON — A federal government agency did more than wrinkle its nose at an employee’s flatulence problem, issuing an official reprimand after months of malodors. But the agency said Friday that it has since retracted the rebuke. The reprimand letter, ...

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ANNAPOLIS — State Senate Majority Leader Rob Garagiola is being reprimanded for an ethics violation linked to his employment by a Washington lobbying firm from 2001-03. The Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics confirmed Thursday it sent the Montgomery County Democrat ...

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A Maine lawyer is convinced a former client is a serial killer and is now trying to link him to a series of murders. Eric B. Cote represented Rory Holland from 2008 to 2009 in a real estate partition action. After ...

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