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Downtown Partnership of Baltimore elects Ferrier Stillman to its executive committee.  Ferrier also serves on its board of directors. She represents individuals in her family law practice and health care companies in her health care and senior housing practice. Downtown Partners... Read more >

Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association elects Joseph M. Selba secretary of its board of directors. Joe’s bankruptcy/restructuring practice focuses on representing debtors, creditors, and trustees in insolvency proceedings, workouts, liquidations, financial restructurings, and bankruptcy litigation... Read more >

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service appoints Richard L. Costella to its board of directors. Rich’s practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, banking and finance, and commercial litigation matters. MVLS is a private, non-profit legal services provider established in 198... Read more >

It has been a year of many difficult adjustments for all Maryland employers.  A few more changes lie ahead, as new employment (and related) laws take effect October 1, 2020. The new laws include human relations protections, hate crime symbols, prohibitions on wage history inquiries, business... Read more >

Maryland now recognizes a new cause of action, the tort of intentional interference with an inheritance or gift.  Previously, Maryland recognized the tort of wrongful or malicious interference with economic relations, which involved contractual or business relationships between the plaintiff an... Read more >

Hard on the heels of a disastrous spring that saw employers of all sizes laying off or furloughing employees in record numbers, a new law quietly passed in Maryland, which will impose heavy penalties on employers with 50 or more employees who fail to give sixty days’ advance notice of covered relo... Read more >

The Small Business Administration (“SBA”) and the Department of the Treasury released guidance on June 11, 2020 in the form of “Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) – Revisions to First Interim Final Rule” with subsequent revisions through June 19, 2020 (collectively, the “Revised Rul... Read more >

The bipartisan Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (the “Flexibility Act”) became law on June 5, 2020, as an attempt to ease some of the burdens placed on businesses that received loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) enacted in March as part of the CARES Act.&n... Read more >

The American Bar Association’s Family Law Section appoints Kerianne Kemmerzell as co-vice chair of its child support committee for 2020-2021.  She also serves on the section's CLE committee. Keri's practice focuses on family law.  She has years of experience representing clients ... Read more >

In the March 16, 2020 Executive Order, Governor Hogan adopted various policies impacting healthcare facilities and providers in some of the initial steps towards flattening the curve of COVID-19 cases among Maryland residents. COVID-19 Facilities and Assets This Executive Order established tha... Read more >