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Many of the country’s largest corporations are incorporated in Delaware. As a result, Delaware courts have become the leaders in articulating the duties of boards of directors. One of the leading Delaware cases in this arena, Caremark, states that a director must make a good-faith effort to oversee a company’s operations.  Moreover, the failure to ...

While many areas took hits over the past year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit sector saw not only a huge increase in demand for services but a decline in donations due to fundraising event cancellations and loss of donors and corporate partners.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, communities around the U.S. rallied to help small businesses by launching “shop local” initiatives, purchasing gift cards and starting fundraising campaigns . Now that states have begun to roll back social distancing restrictions and vaccination rates continue to climb, small businesses still need continued support. “When we shop local, the ...

Companies are becoming more aware of and willing to address environmental, social and governance issues, according to T. Rowe Price’s third annual ESG report, with 2020 standing out as a year that could influence corporate attitudes towards ESG investing for decades to come. 2020 brought ESG issues into the limelight, with the pandemic highlighting environmental issues and national ...

Small boutique downtown Baltimore City law firm seeks recent law school graduate (2019, 2020) with Maryland bar license for civil insurance defense/workers’ compensation litigation.

WSSC Water is seeking an Associate General Counsel to serve as an attorney within the General Counsel's Office handling civil and administrative law litigation and non-litigation assignments.

Maryland has a new strategy for persuading residents to get their COVID-19 vaccine — and it’s a gamble.

Montgomery County unlawfully denied stormwater management tax credits to property owners in a Gaithersburg business park because the development’s ponds for handling runoff were not located on their individual properties, the Maryland Tax Court’s chief judge ruled Wednesday. Walter C. “Clay” Martz II said the county code’s environmental tax credit is not so limited and ...

From calling a defendant an addict to making sexist remarks about a clerk, U.S. judges made — and were punished for — some outrageous comments in 2020.

Baltimore City and Prince George’s County Friday joined a growing list of jurisdictions that will no longer require mask use outside as part of an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. The announcement by Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott also provided good news for the college graduation season. Gov. Larry Hogan earlier this week announced ...

Four University of Maryland Medical System hospitals – the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC) in Glen Burnie, the University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus, University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown and University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton – all earned an “A” in the Spring 2021 ...

BALTIMORE — Baltimore County has agreed to pay $1.1 million to resolve a religious discrimination lawsuit over a county board’s denial of a church’s expansion plan. The Baltimore Sun reports that the county and Hunt Valley Baptist Church reached the March 31 settlement after a federal judge in Baltimore upheld a ruling that the county violated a ...

The Department of Labor, Board of Appeals is currently accepting applications from qualified candidates for the following positions of:

We are seeking a certified paralegal with 1-3 years experience.

As more people are venturing out of their homes and into public spaces, many small businesses may be wondering when to bring back employees that were furloughed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The decision depends on the type of business and the volume coming into the store, according to Cailey Locklair, president of the ...

A divorcing couple’s fight over the fate of their frozen pre-embryo will return to trial after Maryland’s second-highest court ruled Thursday that a judge’s decision to await an agreement between the warring spouses was premature because the wife wants to be implanted with the potential life and the husband wants it destroyed or donated. “In ...

Life Tacos, a presentation offered by two juniors at McDaniel College, won the school’s fifth annual McDaniel College Entrepreneurship Competition April 29 and its $5,000 top prize. Life Tacos is a program designed by juniors Julianna Dotterweich, an accounting, economics, and business administration major from Timonium, and Jessie Titus, an environmental studies major from Frederick, ...

Twenty-six women graduated from the Emerge Maryland signature candidate program April 24, the ninth class to complete the training and the largest cohort to date. The diverse class of women comes from nine different counties and Baltimore city, stretching from Garrett to Harford to Charles County. These women join the rest of the 138 alumnae, ...

Morgan State University President David K. Wilson announced the selection of Michael V. Drake, M.D., president of the University of California and widely-accomplished higher education administrator, as the keynote speaker for the 144th Spring Commencement. The long-anticipated tradition and celebration of in-person commencement exercises returns to the National Treasure beginning May 14 and will conclude May ...