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The law firm Caplan & Earnest LLC has named a new managing partner team composed of attorneys Elizabeth Friel, Kristin Edgar, and Barbara Glogiewicz.

When I was a kid, my mother would coach me, “Try, try again!” All these years on, it must have amounted to something. Back in those days, they were different things: sports, school, music. But the...

Recently, one of the cases I have been working on for years — yes, years! — went up on appeal.  As I have mentioned in previous columns, the process of litigation is rarely swift. But...

If not exactly in the same bloodline, venue and jurisdiction are kissin’ cousins. They are related, as in a more traditional time, in the same way as love and marriage or a horse and carriage....

We all knew that it was ultimately coming, but when it finally happened Thursday, it still came as a shock. No, I am not talking about the report out of Las Vegas about an alien...

In a recent interview with Fox News, former President Donald Trump cited the Presidential Records Act.  This is in the wake of the most recent revelation arising from the classified documents scandal that has continued...

No, not good or bad, friendly or unfriendly, or some other casual metric. What I am referring to is the two major distinctions of lawyers’ practices. What might surprise many people — particularly after a...

Why do lawyers curse? Well, darned if I know. OK, that was flip of me. Maybe it’s the stress. Or else pure hubris. Maybe, it is something else. What I do know for certain is that if...

Let’s first define the term. What does “espionage” mean? Although it may seem of another era — the 1951 case of the Rosenbergs — or the plot of a John LaCarré thriller, what “espionage” may be...

If you’ve been keeping up, you know that the ex-president has been charged in Manhattan with a veritable bevy of felonies. Thirty-four counts to be precise. And that’s just in Manhattan. Soon, there may be more....