Baltimore law firms say they prefer applicants with local ties

December 17, 2018 Leave a comment

Donald B. Tobin, dean of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (The Daily Record/Maximilian Franz)

Students with ambitions of becoming lawyers are often told to apply to law schools in the city or state where they want to live because legal communities are tight-knit and firm partners are loyal to local schools at hiring time. ...

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Md. July bar exam has lowest pass rate, number of takers since the 80s

November 5, 2018 Leave a comment

The Maryland July bar exam hit historic lows both in the number of people who took the exam and the number of passers, according to figures released Monday by the State Board of Law Examiners. Some 782 people sat for ...

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Md. law professors sign letter against confirming Kavanaugh

October 4, 2018 2 Comments

In this Sept. 27, 2018, photo, Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh gives his opening statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kavanaugh is blaming the Clintons for the sexual misconduct allegations against him. In doing so, the judge is drawing new attention to his time on the Kenneth Starr team investigating Bill Clinton’s sexual misconduct in the 1990s. And he’s shown he can deliver a Trump-like broadside against detractors even if it casts him in a potentially partisan light. (Saul Loeb/Pool Image via AP)

More than a dozen professors from the two Maryland law schools have joined colleagues across the country asking the U.S. Senate not to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

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UB law professor kicks off football season with court victory over NFL

September 7, 2018 Leave a comment

‘The NFL has defended a lot of cases by arguing various preemptions and immunities,’ says Phillip J. Closius, who is representing plaintiffs as of counsel at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White LLC in Baltimore. ‘This is the first appellate decision that has gone the other way.’ (File photo)

A University of Baltimore law professor scored a big win against the National Football League on behalf of a Hall of Fame defensive end, a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and other retired players as the NFL was preparing to kick off its season Thursday.

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Md. law schools see higher enrollment despite being more selective

August 17, 2018 Leave a comment

Alana Glover, a 2L at the University of Baltimore School of Law, registers first-year students to vote during the third day of orientation Thursday. UB Law’s incoming class of 237 students is 20 percent larger than last year’s due to a more deliberate effort by the school to increase its enrollment after years of decline. (Anamika Roy)

Both Maryland law schools are welcoming larger classes of students this fall, signaling a renewed interest among prospective lawyers that wavered in recent years.

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UB Law will offer free, online Supreme Court course

August 17, 2018 Leave a comment

Lyle Denniston, left, holds court with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., right, while Supreme Court staff and press corps members look on in 2005. (Supreme Court photo)

Journalist Lyle Denniston, who covered the Supreme Court for more than a half-century, will host the eight-week online course.

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Law school’s immigration clinics continue to help clients through US system

August 17, 2018 Leave a comment

In this Aug. 9, photo, provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, mothers and their children stand in line at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas. With new information seemingly every day about the Trump administration’s immigration policies, the immigration law clinics at Maryland’s two law schools have been busy. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

Business at the immigration clinics at Maryland’s two law schools has been brisk.

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Md.’s law schools tackle gender issues

August 17, 2018 Leave a comment

‘Our society values women less than men, but we are educating a cohort of young lawyers who understand what is happening to them, and who will then have the power to change it,’ says Paula Monopoli, founding director of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law’s Women, Leadership and Equality program. (File photo)

It’s 2018, yet the legal industry is facing a “gigantic” female talent drain, according to a partially released recent study commissioned by the American Bar Association, as women are leaving the profession in larger numbers and quicker than men.

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