Time flies. The crop of young 1Ls in the LARW (Legal Analysis, Research & Writing) class I used to teach during my 3L year at University of Baltimore are sitting for the Maryland bar exam as we speak. I have ...

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Louise A. Lock was installed last month as president of the Maryland Association for Justice Inc. Her practice, in Towson, focuses on medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, product liability and serious, personal injury matters. Lock was most recently co-chair of ...

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When most of the class of 2011 applied for law school, the legal market was booming. But by the time they embarked on their legal education in the fall of 2008, it became abundantly clear that the economy had tanked, ...

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In 1911, the Legal Aid Bureau was founded in Baltimore by the Federated Charities as part of a trend to form societies to help immigrants and the poor with their legal problems. Fast-forward a century, and Legal Aid is inventing ...

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Our city and state are fortunate to have extraordinary resources in the field of higher education and medicine. And when two of those resources combine to bring their presence to bear on an important subject, the potential is even more ...

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Before Dr. Fred Levy attended law school, he viewed the law as a kind of dark side of medicine, with lawyers existing only to sue him if he made a mistake. “Med students … are kind of afraid of it, ...

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Ferguson, Schetelich & Ballew P.A.’s law library is a small, windowless room far away from the lawyers’ offices at the Baltimore firm. Network servers hum beneath the dim lights and multiple blue Ethernet cables burst through the ceiling tiles. Bookshelves ...

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Jeremy C.B. Wyatt has joined Kramon & Graham as an associate in the Baltimore firm’s litigation group. Wyatt will represent clients in business and professional liability litigation, as well as provide transactional advice to nonprofit organizations. Before joining Kramon & ...

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Erinn M. Maguire has been hired as an associate by Conti Fenn & Lawrence, of Baltimore. She concentrates her practice in civil litigation. Maguire graduated from the University of Baltimore and served on the school’s Law Review. She then clerked ...

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Summer associate programs at some of the larger and mid-sized law firms around Baltimore are a mixed bag this year. Some firms, like Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP and Ballard Spahr LLP, have jettisoned the programs for 2011; others, like ...

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