Mega law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge announced yesterday it has cut the starting salaries of its first-year lawyers by $20,000. (The original version of this post said: “to $20,000.” Now that really would have been news!) There has been a delay in reducing starting associate salaries even while these…
On Monday, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals decided Allen v. Marriott Worldwide Corporation, a Montgomery County slip and fall on ice case. The case sends a clear message to most ice slip and fall cases will not get to a jury. [2019 Update: The court walked back this law…
The Wall Street Journal published an article today on law schools gaming the system to improve their U.S. News and World Report rankings. It focuses in part on the rise of the University of Baltimore School of Law, which has risen dramatically under new dean Phillip Closius, including the U.S.…
The Missouri Supreme Court found last week that a truck driver not involved in a truck accident with another driver can sue for the emotional damages suffered when he saw the dead victim in the other car. I’m not sure the decision is legally wrong. But it would not fly…
New Maryland judges were announced today: District Court of Anne Arundel County: Henry Richard Duden, Eileen Anne Reilly, Shaem Charles Patrice Spencer Circuit Court Prince George’s County: Judge Leo Edward Green Jr. District Court Prince George’s County: George Richard Collins, Tiffany Hanna Anderson, Lawrence Vincent Hill Jr District Court Calvert…
Although our lawyers cover personal injury and medical malpractice cases throughout Maryland, I have to admit we have not handled many Garrett County personal injury cases. Garrett County is the westernmost county in Maryland, and I think many malpractice and accident victims in Garrett County, unfortunately, turn to Pittsburgh lawyers…
While I was on vacation, I promised more commentary on Matsuyama v. Birnbaum, a landmark medical malpractice opinion on loss of chance from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. In Matsuyama, the 42-year-old Plaintiff’s decedent, Mr. Matsuyama, saw the Defendant doctor, a board-certified internist, and his primary care doctor, for a…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court – Massachusetts’ highest court – ruled yesterday that courts can hold medical doctors liable for medical malpractice that reduces a patient’s survival chances even if the patient’s chances of recovery was already less than 50 percent. Maryland also has a loss of chance case pending…
Click to enlarge The Supreme Court of Montana rendered an interesting decision last week for an emotional injury claim in Allstate Ins. Co. v. Wagner-Ellsworth. The case involves a car-pedestrian collision. Two brothers were crossing the street in front of their elementary school and one was seriously injured. Allstate settled…
The Maryland Daily Record reports today that The Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos intends to file an appeal in a Baltimore City medical malpractice case in which the Plaintiff’s $10.2 million jury verdict against University of Maryland Medical Center was capped at $632,500.00 because that is the limit on…