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When attorneys self-destruct – a few thoughts….
Practicing law is an “A- minus” stress profession. Â It’s not stressful like being a correctional officer or a soldier or Marine, or an air traffic controller or a bomb squad agent. Â But within the second tier of professional stress, it can be severe. Â Our profession has a higher than average rate of alcoholism, drug abuse
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Clio (#goclio) did a VERY SMART THING – WELL DONE (no joke).
Clio (www.goclio.com) has been my practice management tool for about 3 years or so. Â One of my gripes about Clio for a long time was its escrow ledgers, which until recently militantly included every zero account from every client open and closed going back to the first day I used their software (for clients dormant
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Sweet-smelling pro bono ideas
In my last post, I dragged out the negative side of pro bono work. Â I think it needed to be said. Â But the “stink” side of pro bono work is only part of the story. In the last year, I have done a decent amount of pro bono work and the responses of the referring
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Towards making pro bono work “stink” less
A valued friend is about to take on a major pro bono leadership role in Baltimore City, and it’s my hope that she will continue to speak to me after I note that a) pro bono often stinks, b) we lawyers should do it anyway and c) we can do things to make it stink
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Employer Handbook Blog – a worthy read
Management-side employment attorney Laura Rubenstein, Esquire of Maryland regional firm Offit Kurman alerted me (and her other Twitter followers) to the Employer Handbook Blog from attorney Eric Meyer, Esquire, of Dilworth Paxson of Philadelphia.  Very sharp looking blog with useful, timely content on employment law from a management perspective.
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Congratulations to Craig Roswell, Esquire
A fellow Loyola Blakefield Don, Craig Roswell, Esquire, of Niles, Barton & Wilmer, has been named Managing Partner of that prominent Baltimore insurance defense firm. Â Craig’s brother and I had essentially every class in high school together at Loyola for four years in the 1980s. Â I was not aware that that firm had a history
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Baltimore’s Best Attorney has been found!!!
And for the record, I am not that attorney. I found an attorney within 30 miles of my office of whom I can determine the following facts. 1) Â He was sworn in in 2006 in this state, and appears to have been at one point an Assistant State’s Attorney. 2) Â Per his website, another defunct
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The use of honorifics and courtesy titles and forms of address for attorneys
The following is just opinion, not an attempt at “news”. Â You can find other crimes here but not the crime of “journalism.” “Attorney” is the only title, form of address or honorific we need. Â There are no ranks of attorneys in U.S. law, no formal distinction between the solicitor and the barrister. Â “Doctor” for “Juris
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A friendly message of Maryland law to Governor O’Malley and the General Assembly
Maryland Declaration of Rights, Article 6: “That all persons invested with the Legislative or Executive powers of Government are the Trustees of the Public, and, as such, accountable for their conduct: Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may,
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Important Maryland Cases: Martens Chevrolet v. Seney, 292 Md. 328 (1982)
In Martens Chevrolet v. Seney, 292 Md. 328 (1982), the Court of Appeals affirmed the existence of a tort of negligent misrepresentation in Maryland separate from the tort of fraud/deceit. The Court interpreted the record in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs in rendering its ruling, since the trial court entered on the count of negligent
