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John Bruch: Protecting your firm – How to retain and insure rainmakers
Demand for high-performing attorneys rarely emulates the performance of the legal industry as a whole. As margins contract at many firms, they will likely ratchet up their pursuit of attorneys who can bring in new clients.
Killer of 4 women gets death penalty in California
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — A California judge sentenced a man to death Friday following his conviction for the decades-old killings of four women with matching initials. Marin County Superior Court […]
Court of Appeals: Request for new lawyer can come in a letter
A criminal defendant’s request to discharge counsel need not be spoken in open court to trigger the trial judge’s duty to ask why, Maryland’s top court unanimously held Friday.
Judge wants to assure La. voucher program doesn’t segregate schools
NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge on Friday gave state and federal lawyers 60 days to come up with a process by which the U.S. Justice Department can assure that […]
JHU wins appeal in Belward Farm case
The family members of the late owner of a Montgomery County farm will ask the Court of Appeals to stop the Johns Hopkins University from developing the land into a 4.7 million-square-foot biotech research complex, according to their lawyer.
Groups back challenge to piggyback-tax ruling
Saying localities need the money, a Bethesda-based municipal lawyers’ group is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to save a law that bars Maryland residents from deducting, from city or county taxes, the tax they pay to other states when they earn money there.
Shore jury awards $1M to man who struck farm gear
An Eastern Shore couple has been awarded more than $1 million in damages after a collision involving a semi-tractor hauling farm equipment cost a man an eye.
Lawyer says government destroyed evidence in Navy fraud case
McLEAN, Va. — Defense lawyers say that evidence has been deliberately destroyed in a conspiracy case involving allegations of a secret Navy contract to build hundreds of rifle silencers, ostensibly […]
19 more charged in Md. prison sex, smuggling case
HAGERSTOWN — A federal investigation of corruption inside Baltimore’s state-run jails has produced conspiracy charges against 19 more people, including 14 current or former correctional officers who allegedly delivered drugs […]
Court: Coast Guard not obligated to launch rescue
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a North Carolina widow’s lawsuit blaming the Coast Guard for failing to save her husband’s life, saying the agency […]
MoCo judge tells state to rewrite county’s stormwater runoff regulations
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge has sent the county’s stormwater runoff regulations back to the Maryland Department of the Environment for a rewrite.
After Franklin’s execution, Mo. poised for more
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Once one of the most active death penalty states in the U.S., Missouri carried out its first execution in nearly three years Wednesday after turning to […]
