This week in Maryland Lawyer

June 30, 2008

The conventional thinking was that more women would rise to law firm leadership when more women became lawyers. So why aren’t more women managing partners? And how did these four women do it?

* The Court of Special Appeals orders a new trial for James Edward Johnson, reversing his murder conviction in the stomping death of a man in Essex in July 2004.

* The Maryland State Police and the NAACP get a compromise ruling in a lawsuit for access to records the association claims it needs to ensure compliance with a racial profiling settlement.

* In Verdicts & Settlements: A civil jury in Baltimore rules for the police officer who killed a 14-year-old after being called to the house by the teen’s mother. And in Baltimore County, a fallen trick-or-treater loses her lawsuit against against the costume-clad property owner.

* Dana O. Williams takes over as head of the Baltimore County Bar Association, while solo practitioner Jim Carbine talks about writing his unusual genealogy during two of the busiest years of his career.

* In their columns, Judge Dennis Sweeney looks at recent developments in jury trial practice, while Jack Gohn discusses the Supreme Court’s ruling on the rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Also, a letter writer takes issue with the Supreme Court’s ruling on punitive damages in the Exxon case.

PLUS: Legal briefs, On the Move, and digested opinions from the Court of Appeals, Supreme Court, 4th Circuit, and Maryland’s federal courts.

As always, please feel free to comment on any of these stories or suggest others we should be covering.

BARBARA GRZINCIC, Managing Editor/Law

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