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Legg Mason laying off bulk of auditing staff
Legg Mason will be laying off about 20 employees in its auditing department in Baltimore, the company said Tuesday. The 20 employees are the bulk of the firm’s auditing staff.
No O’Malley administration ‘brain drain,’ expert says
Gov. Martin O'Malley has lost three top aides and three department secretaries in the last year, but a University of Maryland, Baltimore County political scientist says that's no big deal.
Affidavit alleges misconduct by Leopold
ANNAPOLIS — An affidavit filed as part of a sexual harassment lawsuit contains new allegations of misconduct by Anne Arundel County Executive John Leopold, who is facing criminal charges for allegedly misusing his police detail. The affidavit says Leopold and his staff destroyed documents and that county employees were deployed as spies to detect disloyalty. […]
Daily Record staffers win 59 awards
Staff members for The Daily Record have won 49 journalism awards and 10 advertising awards in state and national competitions this year. The newspaper’s “Too Big To Fail?” series on the $1.8 billion East Baltimore Development Inc. project took top honors for investigative reporting in the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association contest. The five-part series by Melody […]
Staffs grew, even when executives’ pay fell
While the majority of CEOs in The Daily Record’s sample saw their compensation grow in 2011, even most of the executives who took a pay cut added employees. Of the 15 executives who earned more in 2011 than 2010, all but four also increased the size of their staffs. Of the eight executives who saw […]
T. Rowe sees record assets under management, increase in profits
T. Rowe Price Group Inc. saw a record quarterly cash flow into target-date retirement portfolios in the first three months of 2012, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. “When people are thinking about adding more money into the marketplace, people, thankfully, are thinking of us, so we had abnormally strong flows in the first quarter,” said […]
VA to add about 1,900 to mental health staff
WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs says it’s increasing its staff of mental health workers by roughly 1,900. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced the plan Thursday, saying the government must make sure all veterans have adequate access to health care. The department plans to add about 1,600 clinicians and about 300 support staff to […]
Truitt named to Loyola College board
Raymond G. Truitt, managing partner for Finance and Operations for Ballard Spahr LLP and a partner in the Real Estate Department in the firm’s Baltimore office, has been appointed to the Board of Advisors of Loyola College, Loyola University Maryland’s school of arts and sciences. The Board of Advisors assists the dean and the leadership […]
No lawyer is an island
Between revisions for the Bowie & Jensen website, trying to organize a Team in Training team for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and debating the importance of a Pinterest account with staff members, I have been dealing with firm-related issues for the better part of the morning. Most of these issues involve working with our […]
Report: Cities strapped by declining tax revenue
WASHINGTON — More than half of cities have cut staff, canceled construction projects or raised fees this year, according to a report from the National League of Cities that catalogs the vast damage from shrunken property- and income-tax revenue. Cities are struggling from the same problems that have left the national economy sputtering: high unemployment, […]
Daily Record investigation: EBDI salaries, staff increased during recession
As the nation headed into its worst recession since the Great Depression, staffing and salaries at East Baltimore Development Inc. skyrocketed between 2005 and 2009, Internal Revenue Service documents show. The pay and benefits at the nonprofit increased by 46 percent, from $2.6 million in 2005-2006 to $5.6 million in 2008-2009, when eight employees made […]
Be nice, and other ways to strengthen your legal team
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 unlimited research plan (oh, how I miss those days!). The second one, while not difficult, […]
