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Minority-owned law firm Brown & Sheehan to split
One of Baltimore’s best-known minority-owned law firms is splitting up. Michael A. Brown, majority owner of Brown & Sheehan LLP, will join Miles & Stockbridge P.C., where he practiced at […]
Consensual disbarment remains a mystery
Last Monday, the Court of Appeals indefinitely suspended David M. Robaton from the practice of law. On Tuesday, the court filed an order stating that Robaton had consented to disbarment. […]
Opinion issued on immediate disbarment
The state’s top court has issued an opinion explaining its immediate disbarment of an immigration lawyer in September. The Court of Appeals took the unusual step of disbarring Mina Bahgat […]
Dixon judge lays down the law: no more cell-phone use in court
After a week and a half of reporters sending Twitter updates from Mayor Sheila A. Dixon’s trial using their cell phones, the judge in the case issued a stern reminder […]
Fighting for Doc: Part 4: After the Fall
For years after he lost his wife, Doc McQuaid maintained to his friends and family that nothing was wrong at home. The façade began to crack in 2009.
UM Law is 50th most-super law school
The folks who bring you Super Lawyers came out this week with a ranking of the top law schools in the country. And it’s dopey. There. I said it. The […]
A fight among the houseguests turns volatile
The worst offense at Doc McQuaid’s house came on July 24, 2008. McQuaid had called police the day before to report that one of his houseguests, Walter Smelser, had taken […]
Rose’s story: ‘Everybody was just out to use Doc’
Rose Deangelis says Doc McQuaid was bilked out of a lot of money, but not by her. Deangelis, the only one of Doc McQuaid’s houseguests to sit for an extended […]
Fighting for Doc: Part 3: Changing stories
Darla Mundy had a shorter police record than her predecessors, but she may have taken more from Doc McQuaid than anyone else.
Top court orders new trial after DNA test
A Montgomery County man convicted of fatally stabbing another man at a teenager’s birthday party will get a new trial because of DNA evidence, the state’s top court has held. […]
Forbidden fruit
I received a lovely Edible Arrangements fruit basket at my desk this morning. Since I can find a law angle to almost anything, I’ll tell you that there was a […]
DNA rights mean 1987 murder convict could get new trial
A man convicted of a 1987 rape, burglary and felony murder could get a new trial. The Court of Appeals held Monday that a new law expanding the circumstances under […]
