Year 2012

Received over the weekend from “L.G.” through LinkedIn: Hi, Bruce G., I see that we are both in the Criminal Defense Attorneys group. I noticed many people in your profession are really interested in learning how to get more clients…

Maryland Daily Record, Oct 2, 2012: Last year, the [Unemployment Insurance D]ivision paid out $1.6 billion in unemployment benefits to 243,000 claimants, the money coming from state and federal unemployment insurance taxes paid by employers. Apparently overpayments are not uncommon…

Of late my practice has noticed an uptick in the use of telephone hearings in Maryland unemployment appeals. I don’t know whether my perception reflects the larger reality of the practice, but it seems lately that the Maryland Unemployment Insurance…

The following is the text (reformatted for the internet) of an open letter sent by the Law Office of Bruce Godfrey to the Honorable Emmett C. Burns, Jr., delegate from Maryland’s District 10 which covers primarily Randallstown and parts of…

I got to watch someone argue that the traffic laws were an unconstitutional abridgement of his 1st Amendment rights.  He argued that the police had no jurisdiction to police MD 140 (Westminster Pike) for violations of the posted speed limit,…

The Law Office is now practicing in Reisterstown, sharing professional space with the Law Office of Denrich & Bell, LLC at 301 Main Street #1-D Reisterstown, MD 21136. Box 444, Reisterstown, MD 21136 remains the preferred mailing address for client…

Until fairly recently in the history of the United States, the private Bar handled the criminal defense of indigent defendants in an unorganized way largely through appointments of attorneys by the bench to represent unrepresented persons. The Supreme Court’s decision…