A judicial discipline panel on Tuesday recommended an additional three-month suspension for a currently suspended Baltimore City District Court judge. The Court of Appeals suspended Judge Devy Patterson Russell for six months on July 1 and ordered her to have a ...

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The Court of Appeals indefinitely suspended a Montgomery County attorney Monday for mishandling two client matters. Eugene Ignatius Kane Jr., a solo practitioner with a “virtual office” in Montgomery County, primarily worked from home and held meetings in public places. Kane ...

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A Prince George’s County lawyer who became an administrative law judge was indefinitely suspended by the state’s top court Friday for failing to communicate with a client, properly terminate representation and diligently handle a case. Richard Allen Moore II, of Upper Marlboro, can reapply ...

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The Court of Appeals has indefinitely suspended a Montgomery County solo practitioner who failed to maintain an attorney trust account, charged unreasonable fees and failed to keep adequate records of a client’s payments. The state’s top court compared the case ...

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The state’s top court has suspended for one year a Bel Air attorney who demonstrated a “pattern of neglect and non-responsiveness” in his representation of a client who retained him to handle a child support case. Jerome P. Johnson failed ...

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A Washington, D.C., attorney who is not licensed to practice in Maryland but who nevertheless represented a criminal defendant in District Court in Prince George’s County has been suspended for 60 days by the Court of Appeals. Larry D. Hunt, ...

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The Court of Appeals has suspended for 30 days an attorney who “essentially abandoned” her representation of a client before the Court of Special Appeals by failing to appear at oral argument and then not informing the client that he ...

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The Court of Appeals indefinitely suspended a Cambridge lawyer for abandoning a client, failing to respond to client requests and not cooperating with an Attorney Grievance Commission investigation.

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While the sports world might question what the NFL investigators knew and when they knew it, the lesson for employers from the Ray Rice saga is clear: They must do their due diligence before taking disciplinary action against employees, lest evidence later emerge showing the initial discipline was more lenient than deserved.

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Talk about a distraction. As flippant and meaningless as that word has become in the context of sports and locker rooms, it seems a fitting characterization of Ray Rice's situation on the Baltimore Ravens — at least in the NFL's eyes.

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