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Law Digest — 4th US Circuit and Md. Court of Appeals — April 14, 2022  Maryland Daily Record

One of the most profitable ways to use your brand to attract business in the legal marketplace is through social media. Your firm may already be active on LinkedIn or Twitter. Or perhaps you’re simply considering using social media and wondering how to begin. In either case, to maximize your investment of time (and, in some cases, money), it pays to develop a strategy. In this guide, we’ll ex...

MONTGOMERY — Governor Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed House Bill 143, which is named in honor of Sheffield K-9 Sgt. Nick Risner, who was tragically murdered in October 2021 by a man previously convicted of manslaughter. The Nick Risner Act, which is sponsored by Rep. Phillip Pettus, prevents convicts who used a deadly weapon to kill someone from being released early under Alabama’s “Good Time” l...

WATCH LIVE COVERAGE: For the first time since its passage, the Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday will discuss the controversial "Parental Rights In Education" law, dubbed by critics the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Top school district officials are scheduled to present the specific details of the newly passed law to school board members during a workshop on Wednesday afternoon. The bill, w...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — For the first time since its passage, the Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday discussed the controversial "Parental Rights In Education" law, dubbed by critics the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Top school district officials presented specific details of the newly passed law to school board members. The bill, which was signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Mar...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Adam Oakes, the Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who died in a hazing incident at a Delta Chi Greek life event, has his name honored on one of 700 bills signed into Virginia law on Governor Glenn Youngkin’s desk. Adam Oakes ‘Adam’s Law‘ passed through both the Virginia House and Senate before sitting under the pen of Gov. Youngkin. His family said, although the...

The pandemic years have allowed legal technologies that may have once seemed futuristic— remote notarizations, blockchain prenups, and virtual court trials—to enter the mainstream, and law firms are chasing the windfall. As buzzy terms like the “metaverse” and “virtual reality goggles” tiptoe into everyday legal tech discourse, some experts wonder whether firms seeking to catch up with the te...

2022 Roll Call of Heroes to honor 619 line-of-duty fatalities, 472 from 2021—the most ever to be added to the Memorial walls from one year WASHINGTON, April 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund has formally announced that there are 619 names of U.S. law enforcement officers being added to the memorial this year who have died in the line of duty. The nam...

Today, members of the Wolf Administration and local planning officials held an event to highlight nearly 90 projects anticipated to continue or be awarded this year in the six-county northwest region and discussed the benefits coming to regional roads and bridges due to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). “It is going to be a robust construction season in the northwest corner of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk’s huge Twitter investment took a new twist Tuesday with the filing of a lawsuit alleging that the colorful billionaire illegally delayed disclosing his stake in the social media company so he could buy more shares at lower prices. The complaint in New York federal court accuses Musk of violating a regulatory deadline to reveal he had accumulated a stake of at le...