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08/19/2016

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a Cook County Circuit Court judge has been removed from the bench indefinitely after allowing a staff attorney in her office to don her robes and rule on cases in her absence.

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that a Cook County Circuit Court judge has been removed from the bench indefinitely after allowing a staff attorney in her office to don her robes and rule on cases in...

07/19/2016

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals – a federal appeals court based in Atlanta – just overturned the convictions of Miami “bar girls” who were convicted of fraud for luring customers into a bar and...

07/15/2016

As attorneys, we see lots of possible legal issues whenever the public is brought together to engage in competition – especially by a third party with no real connection to the place the people are meeting. What if the digital competition at your local library turns into a physical one? Do normal premises liability rules apply?

Pokemon GO is a mobile app currently sending scores of kids out into the world to catch digital monsters among scores of adults old enough to have played Pokemon Red and Blue on the original,...

07/07/2016

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just issued a recall of 500,000 self-balancing hover-boards due to defects in their lithium ion batteries that can reportedly cause the devices to burst into flames and sometimes explode.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just issued a recall of 500,000 self-balancing hover-boards due to defects in their lithium ion batteries that can reportedly cause the devices to burst into...

07/06/2016

Plaintiffs in two cases seeking compensation for loved ones killed by underage drunk drivers succeeded yesterday in changing Maryland law: adults who host parties at which underage drinkers become intoxicated can now face civil liability if the intoxicated minors are involved in automobile accidents upon leaving the party.

The opinion by Judge Adkins seems careful to avoid becoming a stepping stone for the eventual imposition of so-called Dram Shop Liability in Maryland, the doctrine in other states that allows lawsuits against bar owners over injuries caused by their drunken patron once they head home. Her opinion is care to differentiate adults who provide alcohol to minors from adults who choose to become intoxicated on their own, saying clearly in her holding that "underage persons are not solely responsible for drinking alcohol on an adult’s property because they are not competent to handle the effects of this potentially dangerous substance"

The consolidated opinion of the two cases, Manal Kiriakos v. Brandon Phillips and Nancy Dankos, et al. v. Linda Stapf, can be read at the link below.

Plaintiffs in two cases seeking compensation for loved ones killed by underage drunk drivers succeeded yesterday in changing Maryland law: adults who host parties at which underage drinkers become...

07/04/2016

Happy Independence Day!

07/02/2016

"How about this?" the defendant told the judge during the tense exchange. "When I get in this trial, I will murder your whole family."

07/01/2016

Today, Bobby Bonilla will collect a check for $1,193,248.20 from the Mets, just like he has for the last five years and will on every July 1 until the year 2035.

He retired in 2000.

06/28/2016

A teenager in London has created an AI lawyer service to contest parking tickets, and he's brining it to the United States.

Free service DoNotPay helps appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but is just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator

05/12/2016

A national law firm has hired the first AI attorney to work in its bankruptcy division, named "Ross." Ross is built on IBM's Watson, the AI program that famously did so well on Jeopardy years ago.

Ross, the world's first artificially intelligent attorney, has its first official law firm. Baker & Hostetler announced that they will be employing Ross for its bankruptcy practice, currently comprised of almost 50 lawyers.

12/31/2015

Happy New Year's Eve, Baltimore! Be safe out there tonight, and have a lovely, happy, healthy New Year.