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The Daily Record named
the Hon. Steven I. Platt the recipient of its 2003 “Innovator
of the Year” award.
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Thomas J. Sessa and
Cheri H. Dorsey have become Associates in the Tax & Estate
Planning Group of the law firm of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman,
Hoffberger and Hollander, LLC. |
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Thomas J. Sessa |
Cheri H. Dorsey |
Charles T. Dillon has joined
the Baltimore office of McGuireWoods LLP as an associate in the law
firm’s Financial Services Department.
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J. Matthew Gilmore has
joined the law firm of Severn, O’Connor & Kresslein, P.A., as an
associate. |
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J. Matthew Gilmore |
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Lisa Y. Settles has joined
the law firm of Hodes, Ulman, Pessin & Katz, P.A., as In-House Special
Education Counsel.
Paul K. Casey |
Paul K. Casey,
a partner with the law firm of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll,
LLP, has been elected Chair of the Governing Committee of the
American Bar Association’s Forum on Affordable Housing and
Community Development Law, while Ballard Spahr partner Jon M.
Laria has been named Chair of the External Advisory Board for
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Public
Policy. Ballard Spahr associate Jan I. Berlage has been
appointed Chair of the Bankruptcy Law Committee of the Young
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Jan I. Berlage |
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Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., has appointed Saul Ewing associate
Roberto N. Allen to the board of commissioners of the Maryland
Commission on Human Relations.
Kathleen A. Morse, senior
litigator with the Civil Division of the Office of the Attorney
General, has relocated from Baltimore to Vail, Colorado, where she
will open The Alpine Writer, an Internet-based legal consulting
and writing practice.
Rockville attorney Steven Van Grack has been elected President
of the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of
Lawyers.
Carmen J. Morgan has joined
Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A., as associate to the
Rockville-based law firm’s Immigration, Nationality and Consular
Practice Group.
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Steven R. Smith has
joined Ober Kaler as a principal in the law firm’s Washington,
D.C., Health Law practice. |
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Steven R. Smith |
Robyn C. Scates, a partner in
the Baltimore office of Scates & McGuire, has been elected President
of the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys.
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Melissa K. Mineo has
joined the family law firm of Weinberg & Schwartz, L.L.C., as an
associate. |
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Melissa K. Mineo |
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Larry Bulman, principal in
the law firm of Bulman, Dunie, Burke & Feld, Chartered, took home the
top two trophies and a first in class at this year’s Governor’s Cup
Yacht Race, sponsored by St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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Towson estate and trust attorney Chris A. Owens has been
elected president of the Baltimore Estate Planning Council. |
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Chris A. Owens |
The Law Office of Kimberly Talbert Myers, P.A., raised more
than $1,000 for the National Capital Area Alzheimer’s Association when
the California, Maryland-based Office Team (with Myers acting as Team
Captain) participated in the sixth annual “Calvert-St. Mary’s Memory
Walk” on September 20 in Solomons, Maryland.
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Michael E. Ellison has
become an associate member of the Thatcher Law Firm, LLC, of
Greenbelt, Maryland, where he will practice in the areas of
employment litigation, family law and elder law. |
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Michael E. Ellison |
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The Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia has named
Sandra Robinson a “Star of the Bar”.
The law firm of Ober Kaler marked its centennial with its “100-Year
Anniversary Celebration,” held October 9 at the American Visionary
Art Museum in Baltimore. |
