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…
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…
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…
I don’t think I have anything particularly special to say about professionalism as such. All of us can grow and learn. Well, maybe all of us have growing and learning to do; whether we “can” is another matter. I know…
Sometimes legal issues have public “sizzle”; sometimes they are a little dryer and of interest primarily to true legal scholars. My law school classmate Dan Friedman, author of a major reference text on Maryland constitutional law, has written in The…
This guide is to help those who call a law office to get what they want: legal help. 1) Your name. We attorneys want to know it if you call us. If you are calling for someone else, we want…
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…
[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…
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…
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…