Maryland Lawyer Blog

No one knows yet. The Maryland Daily Record reports that the search has been narrowed down to 12.

This is going to be an incredibly important choice. UB law is really at a crossroads between making the leap and languishing as a second tier school. Clearly, the wind is to UB's back, it has momentum. Former Dean Phillip J. Closius also had the touch with U.S. News and World Report which is both pathetically and practically critical important.

The bad news is the UB lost a great dean over what was probably personality issues and took some PR punches in the process. The good news is that I suspect that the UB job is now a better job than in was in 2007, particularly with the new building around the corner.

A Maryland state senator who says he has read a report by the Maryland General Assembly's Joint Ethics Committee says the panel is recommending that Sen. Ulysses Currie be censured for failing to disclose more than $245,000 in payments from a grocery store chain.

Two thoughts. First, Mr./Ms. Leaking Senator, why exactly are you leaking this? Oh, the reporter who got the information is going to love you? Ah. My second thought is that if you are going to grab $245,000 you really should not be taking in the first place, a censure is not exactly breaking your heart. But if the voters reelect Sen. Currie, they deserve her.

I look at Maryland appellate opinions every week, looking for new Maryland personal injury cases. Nothing interesting in PI but here are some other cases I stumbled across in search for something related to my practice. If I get a lot of traffic for this, I'll keep doing it. Otherwise, I won't.

• Charles County, I know you didn't mean it. Still, even in zoning, due process is due process, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals says. (Is there a lot of pent up demand for a firing range and a driving track in Charles County?)
• Anonymous lawyer, you begin practicing law.
• Felony murder conviction reversed.
• Not recording a title leads to a mess.
• Judge White got it right (another zoning case)