Big Vanilla in Pasadena and Severna Park is being sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of four women for the sexual harassment of all four women and the firing of three of them in retaliation for complaining, according to the Maryland Daily Record and the Baltimore…
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Breastfeeding Mothers Jury Exemption
The Maryland Daily Record had a quick blurb about a bill introduced by Maryland State Senator Nancy Jacobs, a Republican from Hartford County, exempting nursing mothers from jury duty. Senator Jacobs claims that she knows of many instances in her district where breast-feeding mothers were required to serve on juries.…
Handling Your Own Personal Injury Case
In the vast majority of personal injury cases, injury victims will be better off hiring a personal injury lawyer to handle their claim, particularly in serious injury cases. But many people for a variety of reasons – most of them foolish – will choose to handle their own claims. Accordingly,…
Manor Care Makes List of Nation’s Worst Nursing Homes
The Bush Administration published yesterday the names of 131 nursing homes with poor inspection records. To the surprise of not a single Maryland lawyer who handles nursing home cases, Manor Care on Ridge Road in Baltimore was on the list. You can find the full list here.
Emergency Room Doctor Making Up Outrageous Medical Malpractice Claims
I found a new blog called ER Stories – Shocking, Hilarious, Bizarre, and Sad Tales from the ER. It is an anonymously written blog by an emergency room doctor. I have a bit of a problem assessing the credibility of someone who refuses to identify themselves. Does the American Medical…
Frivolous Lawsuit + Sex = Maryland Lawyer Blog Post
The Maryland Daily Record published a story today about a St. Mary’s County, Maryland man who is suing adultfriendfinder.com and three anonymous users of the site for defamation and false light invasion of privacy over the posting of sexually explicit pictures of his wife. I hope more information comes out…
The Big Firm Response
My blog on Friday on large law firms and their lawyers poked a bit of fun at my brother-in-law in Arizona, who is a partner in a very large firm. I forwarded him the post and got no response. Today, he responded with a comment to my blog which I…
Baltimore Mega Law Firm Lawyer Salaries
The Maryland Daily Record’s Blog reports that DLA Piper and Venable, the two Baltimore mega firms, have raised their associate starting salaries in Baltimore to $160,000. I remember in 1995 when I was making $57,500 coming out of law school at a litigation defense firm in Baltimore that, at that…
Maryland Court of Appeals/Court of Special Appeals Opinions in 2007
The Maryland Lawyer section of the Daily Record yesterday ranks Maryland’s appellate judges by the number of opinions they wrote in 2007. I love data. But this is one of those things that appears interesting at first glance, particularly with the Daily Record’s glossy – okay not glossy, but color…
Maryland Court of Appeals’ Steps Into the Mortgage Crisis
The Baltimore Sun reports that the Maryland Court of Appeals suggested during oral arguments in a foreclosure case Monday that the court may change with the times and alter notification procedures for foreclosures, which have been on the rise in Maryland and around the country as many of us have…