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Baltimore Ravens Play It Low-Key Marketing New Quarterback Joe Flacco

As the Ravens prepare for their only Monday night game of the season, the nation will get its first glimpse at the player who has had Baltimore fans buzzing at water coolers for the past three weeks. But after the on-the-field play, the analysts' commentary and the post-game interviews, the rest of the country will be pretty much caught up with Ravens fans on all they've seen -- so far -- of their rookie starting under center.

Immigrant From Bulgaria Finds His Niche in Baltimore Real Estate

When Nikolay Todorov arrived in America at age 19, it was a country he'd only heard about in movies. By his own account, he brought only a suitcase full of clothing and $200, and came from his native Bulgaria ready to work. And work he did -- about 100 hours a week, he said, for those first few years -- as a lifeguard and later a bartender at the Baltimore Hyatt Regency hotel by day, and baking bread at a local Safeway by night. He obtained a green card, then started attending investing works...

Legal Opinions - Maryland Court of Appeals: September 29, 2008

Contracts Cause for termination

Legal Opinions - Maryland Court of Special Appeals: September 29, 2008

MARYLAND COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS Administrative Law

Legal Opinions - Court of Special Appeals - Part 2

Criminal Procedure Custodial interrogation

Legal Opinions - Court of Special Appeals - Part 3

Labor & Employment Wages

Legal Opinions - U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals: September 29, 2008

4th U.S. CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS Criminal Procedure

Law Digest

Maryland Court of Appeals Contracts: Cause for termination: Dealer agreements executed prior to enactment of CL [section]19-103 were, in effect, renewed following the enactment of the statute; therefore, the statute applied prospectively to prohibit manufacturer from terminating agreements without cause. John Deere Construction and Forestry Co. v. Reliable Tractor, Inc., Misc. Docket No. 12. RecordFax No. 8- 0915-20, 16 pages.

Legal Opinions - U.S. District Court, Maryland: September 29, 2008

Labor & Employment Discrimination

My First Job Interview: A Navy Captain's Words Helped Lawyer Make His Own Case

A. Harold DuBois returned to Baltimore in 1964 after four years as a lawyer in the Navy's legal system and decided to become a plaintiff's attorney. His problem, though, was he didn't know how to "practice law," as he put it. So he decided to learn from one of the best: Paul Berman, the big, burly attorney whose imposing presence caused juries to rise when he entered the courtroom, DuBois recalled last week over lunch in Towson. When DuBois inquired about a job, Berman's office manager inform...

Baltimore Security Firm Wins Insurance Coverage Dispute

A Sparks insurance firm must honor the policies it issued to a Baltimore private security firm facing multiple lawsuits for alleged brutality by several employees who are also city police officers, a Baltimore County Circuit Court judge has held. Insurance Designers of Maryland Inc. sought to void the three policies issued to Millennium Security Consulting Group LLC. It alleged Millennium misrepresented that the Baltimore City Police Department would cover "color of duty" and "police action" ...

Maryland Lawyers On the Move: September 29, 2008

John A. Wolf has been elected chair of the board of directors of Business Volunteers Unlimited Maryland. Wolf is chair and CEO of Ober|Kaler, where he practices in construction contract negotiation, litigation, and alternative disputes resolution matters. Prior to his election, he served as a BVU board member. He is also a board member of the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Maryland Mentoring Partnership, Union Memorial Hospital, the Marshall Foundation, and Washington & Lee University, wh...

Pro Bono: Montgomery County, Lawyers Help Family On 'Exteme Makeover: Home Edition'

Behind every great home acquisition is a smiling real-estate attorney. And so it is with what this morning might be the most talked- about home acquisition in the United States: one made by a financially overwhelmed Poolesville family - with 14 children -- with the pro bono assistance of a veteran real-estate attorney and broadcast nationwide last night on the season premiere of the popular ABC show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

The Daily Record News Briefs: September 29, 2008

Judge must accept agreed-upon facts; New trial ordered in vehicular manslaughter case A woman who drove across the double-yellow line and killed two people is entitled to a new trial on vehicular manslaughter charges, the Court of Special Appeals has held.

Kimmel & Silverman Cases Will Be Handled by Managing Attorney While Name Partners Are Suspended

A managing attorney with Kimmel & Silverman P.C. will handle the firm's cases while the two name partners are suspended from practicing law in Maryland, according to letters the firm sent to opposing counsel and a judge. Craig T. Kimmel and Robert M. Silverman, who head the Pennsylvania-based automobile lemon-law firm, were suspended by the Court of Appeals for 90 days earlier this month for inadequately supervising the lawyer who ran their Maryland office from 2004 to 2005. That lawyer defau...

Federal Jury in Baltimore Rules for Doctor in 'Staple' Case

A federal jury in Baltimore has rejected a West Virginia man's allegation that his surgeon negligently stapled his rectum shut four years ago. The eight-member panel announced its verdict in favor of Dr. Manuel A. Casiano and against 64-year-old Ronald Watkins on Friday afternoon, after a weeklong trial in U.S. District Court before Judge Catherine C. Blake.

For Some Lawyers, Tailgating Is Now in Session at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore

Three hours before game time, the seats inside M&T Bank Stadium are empty and the atmosphere is subdued. Outside, it's a whole different ballgame. Loud music blares and smoke pours from barbeque grills as thousands of diehard Baltimore Ravens fans converge on the parking lots in the ritual known as tailgating.