This week in Maryland Lawyer
August 18, 2008
Good lawyers don’t try their cases in the court of public opinion — or do they? For Paul Kemp, who represented anthrax researcher Bruce Ivins before Ivins’ fatal drug overdose, a trial in the press was the only trial his client was going to get. Danny Jacobs talks to Kemp and other attorneys about handling high-profile cases.
A double-murder trial in Rockville this month pitted Montgomery County’s top prosecutor against the defendant himself – a man who had been deemed fit to stand trial for the 2002 slayings just last year. As Steve Lash writes, pro se defendants put an extra strain on an adversarial system that assumes each side has a trained advocate.
Also:
A suspected drug dealer will get $35,000 from the city of Baltimore because the search of his private parts was conducted in too-public an area. Also in Verdicts & Settlements, a drywall installer who fell on the job lost his lawsuit, but thanks to a pretrial high-low agreement, will recover $29,050 from the two defendants.
In the news, some law firms are looking long and hard at whether they need to keep their paid listings in Martindale-Hubbell; criminal defense attorneys weigh in on a case of nondisclosure; the CSA blesses Warren Brown’s defense strategy in the UMCP homecoming stabbing trial; and an Indian firm responds to a Bethesda-based lawyer’s lawsuit against the practice of overseas outsourcing. (According to one report, the motion to dismiss was written entirely by — you guessed it — Indian lawyers.)
PLUS:
Profiles in Leadership, this week featuring Steve Sachs; a column by Joe Surkiewicz on the Allegany Bar Foundation; the Interrogatory; On the Move; Legal Briefs; and the Law Digest, including cases from the 4th Circuit and Maryland’s federal courts.
As always, we welcome your comments.
BARBARA GRZINCIC, Managing Editor/Law
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