Learning

Event & CLE Catalog Featured Events Featured Publications Calendar Ethics Hotline & Opinions Rules of Professional Conduct Resource & Learning Library

Trends in the Legal Profession MSBA State Legislative Program MSBA Case Notes

Basics of Real Estate Transactions Series

20 Hour Divorce Mediation Seminar: Child Custody and Visitation

See All Featured Events

For The Public

Legal Information Brochures Lawyer Referral Information Dispute An Attorney Fee Find MSBA Speakers

About

Why Join MSBA? Leadership Member Directory Bylaws Staff

For our members.
For the profession.

Serving, connecting, and empowering Maryland’s legal professionals

Hon. Sidney A. Butcher

Associate Judge

District Court of Maryland

Learn More About MSBA

Hon. Sidney A. Butcher

Associate Judge

District Court of Maryland

We Need You--Take the Survey

This year, through the help of members like you, the MSBA will work to offer an Association Healthcare Plan. Complete a quick survey to provide demographic data needed to propose the best plan–and enter to win one of our giveaways!

PARTICIPATE NOW

Featured Events & Products

Designed to help lawyers in every field learn, network, and succeed at every stage of their careers

04/27/2023

5.0 Credits

Advanced Business Law Institute

In-Person

04/04/2023

14.0 Credits

Basics of Real Estate Transactions Series

Online

06/07/2023

2023 Legal Summit & Annual Meeting

In-Person

See All Featured Events

MSBA Blog

March 30,2023

Does Heavy or Binge Drinking Really Affect Emotional Development?

By Lisa Caplan

March 27,2023

“Plain English”: Why Lawyers Should Give It a Shot

By Guest Author

March 27,2023

Anger Management Tips

By Lisa Caplan

See All News

MSBA President David Shapiro

Visit the President's Corner for events, news, and other updates

President's Corner

MSBA Passport Membership

Join or Upgrade Your Membership Now

Passport privileges, worth thousands, include:

Membership in MSBA
Free admission to all MSBA Summits
Unlimited CLE Programs
Free Use of Platforms
Dozens of In-Person Events

JOIN OR UPGRADE NOW

The Maryland Access to Justice Commission

Powered by the MSBA

The Maryland Access to Justice Commission unites leaders to drive systemic reforms and innovations to make the civil justice system accessible, equitable and fair for all Marylanders.

See Our Work

Free, confidential counseling for Maryland lawyers, judges, and law school students

For confidential, toll-free help, contact the Lawyer Assistance Program:

1-888-388-5459

Please note: this number is not a referral service to find a lawyer or make a complaint against a lawyer.

Learn More About MSBA Health & Wellness

Members can communicate with other section and council members through MSBA Connect, a new MSBA email platform. Connect offers many different communities, each organized around a broad theme or shared professional experience/role, based on your MSBA membership settings and groups. View FAQs and start connecting today.

A comprehensive database of legal research – at your fingertips.

MSBA members: save thousands of dollars per year with free Fastcase access.

Member Testimonials

Court closings and a global pandemic are major stressors on all of us, and I have honestly felt listened to this year through webinars and informal coffee chats with MSBA President Scurti, staff, and my peers. What a wonderful tone the MSBA is setting. I have been a longtime Committee member of MSBA’s Lawyers Assistance Program (LAP) and today, I am even more proud to be an MSBA member. Thank you.

Chris Flohr, Esq.

Partner, Blackford & Flohr, LLC

I want to tell you that the MSBA is a wonderful vehicle because it gives practitioners like myself an opportunity to help give back to the profession. Being the one on the receiving end is not always the best thing. When you’re lucky enough to be on the giving end, that is truly a blessing and I consider myself blessed that through the MSBA I can now give back to the profession which I love so much.

Jeffrey Nadel

Founder, Law Offices of Jeffrey Nadel

I'm grateful that MSBA is making their on-demand courses free to members. It's incredibly helpful during a stressful time. Thank you for everything you're doing!

Elizabeth Lietz

Immigration Attorney and Principal, Law Office of Elizabeth A. Lietz, PLLC

I'm a solo practitioner. I've been wanting forever to have a situation that we now have with the MSBA Passport. Passport is not just uniquely useful during a period of time when we’re all hunkered down at home, but for those of us who don't have other people we can shoot work off to, or when we can't always sit down at the time we want to, Passport allows you to go back and look at things later on and to save information. I think it usually encourages people to navigate into other areas of the law. That's why I have such an eclectic practice, from learning and networking in other areas. I really commend the MSBA for coming up with Passport.

Leslie Pladna

Leslie A. Pladna & Associates P.A.

It is not about whether you personally benefit every week, it's about the benefit to your law practice and the bar overall - the ability to tap into the broad range of information and resources the organization is able to assemble when needed. On any given day, I might not access that resource, but other members will. Our collective participation allows the organization to meet those demands.

Anthony Gorski, Esq.

It is important for Paley Rothman to step up, set an example, and complete all of our annual membership renewals immediately. My partners and I were in agreement that it is important to support the MSBA right now, just as the MSBA has supported lawyers throughout Maryland during these challenging times. My partners and I are most appreciative of the tremendous efforts of the MSBA team, now more than ever.

David Shapiro, Esq.

Great job to the MSBA this past year in its growth and transition of the organization into the digital age.

Damien Banks

Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos

MSBA, thank you, keep it up, you are doing a tremendous service to your members and the public at large. You are looking beyond how to maintain business as usual, because business as usual doesn’t exist. Thank you for being nimble and responding so proactively to this crisis.

Cynthia Jurriuss, Esq.

Volume 4 Issue 2

The Maryland Bar Journal

Focused legal analysis from the experts you trust, delivered in an exclusive quarterly magazine

Read Now

Grants & awards to elevate our mission.

DONATE Learn More

MSBA Partner Organizations

Partnerships that expand our reach to pursue the MSBA mission in local communities

Impacting the legal profession & our local communities

Inspiring & enabling the Maryland legal community to meaningfully serve those in need

Banking on justice

Resources

Publications

Resources

MSBA Reports

For our members.
For the profession.

We Need You--Take the Survey

This year, through the help of members like you, the MSBA will work to offer an Association Healthcare Plan. Complete a quick survey to provide demographic data needed to propose the best plan–and enter to win one of our giveaways!