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Disbarred for bad mouthing judges, prosecutors and public defenders
In February 2014, following oral argument in January, the Maryland Court of Appeals disbarred an attorney for emailing a number of attorneys, including long-time former Attorney Grievance Commission member George Meng, Esquire, defamatory claims of corruption regarding a number of judges and elected officials including the Attorney General. Â Opinion of Judge Greene in Attorney Grievance
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Annual St. Patrick’s Day Don’t Kill People Post
In 1997, a drunk driver killed my closest friend from law school, her brother, her sister-in-law and her infant niece in a one-crash accident in a residential neighborhood north of Miami right around “bar time.” The drunk driver fled the scene, having in no manner attempted to render aid to the wounded or even to
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Let’s All Help “Pat Barnes” Find Decent Employment
I pity “Pat Barnes”. He or she is a representative of a company that wants to sell me, an 18-year member of the Maryland Bar, a plaque commemorating my 15th year of membership in the Maryland Bar. And be darned if she or he isn’t persistent: I have gotten maybe half a dozen of these
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Professionalism vs. Zero-Sum Thinking
I don’t think I have anything particularly special to say about professionalism as such. Â All of us can grow and learn. Â Well, maybe all of us have growing and learning to do; whether we “can” is another matter. Â I know I still have a lot to learn, even 18 years into this way of helping
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Dan Friedman on the Jones v. Anne Arundel County decision
Sometimes legal issues have public “sizzle”; sometimes they are a little dryer and of interest primarily to true legal scholars. Â My law school classmate Dan Friedman, author of a major reference text on Maryland constitutional law, has written in The Daily Record a critique of the reasoning of the Court of Appeals in Daryl Jones
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How to Call a Law Office
This guide is to help those who call a law office to get what they want: legal help. 1) Â Your name. Â We attorneys want to know it if you call us. Â If you are calling for someone else, we want to know your name and the name of the person for whom you are calling.
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Juneteenth
To those marking the June 19th 1865 commemorated arrival in Galveston Texas of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to Texas – before the days of Twitter, indeed barely after the creation of transcontinental telegraphy – the Law Office wishes a Happy Juneteenth. To your edification I commend this brief interview with Baltimorean Morning Nyemah Sunday-Hettleman
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[Town] [State] [Practice Area] [Sub-field or Court Venue] [“Lawyer/Law/Attorney”] [“Blog”]
[Self-congratulatory paragraph implying that attorney is aggressive, caring, ‘the best’ (in defiance of common sense, ethical principles and rules) and is super-competent after 3 years of practice.] [Non-news event involving petty drug bust in [Town], posted not for news value but for SEO gimmickry.] [“If you get a [random town] [charge for which town is
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Good alternatives to drunk driving on or about St. Patrick’s Day.
Every day is a good day not to drive drunk or while impaired by alcohol (or by anything else), but the holidays (broadly defined) that for some are an occasion to drink, possibly to excess or in inappropriate connection to driving, are an especially good day to refrain from not driving under the influence. There
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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
