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April 25, 2011
Published by Michael Berman at April 25, 2011
Joshua Gilliland, author of the Bow Tie blog and Bow Tie Law blog, and president of Majority Opinion, LLC, was kind enough to provide me with a complimentary copy of his new iPad App, called The Deponent App. Deponent marries document assembly principles with a database of stock deposition questions that can be […]
April 18, 2011
Published by Michael Berman at April 18, 2011
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Kate Paslin, Assistant General Counsel of AccessData Corporation, presented and discussed a number of the company’s software products to a University of Baltimore law school ESI seminar. Kate discussed CaseVantage 6 with secure sharing over web-based portals and the ability to define user profiles for, for example, expert witnesses or document reviewers, […]
April 17, 2011
Published by Michael Berman at April 17, 2011
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Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel, described the capabilities of Guidance Software’s EnCase suite of applications to a University of Baltimore School of Law ESI seminar. In addition to enterprise collection and forensic preservation capabilities, Mr. Burke discussed the project-based capabilities of the new, low-cost EnCase Portable software. This product is simple to […]
April 10, 2011
Published by Michael Berman at April 10, 2011
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Sensei Enterprises, Inc., president Sharon D. Nelson, reported on a law school ESI seminar, as follows: “In the spring of 2008, The Honorable Paul W. Grimm and [Mike Berman] developed a three-credit ESI workshop for law school students. The class was first offered at the University of Baltimore School of Law, and […]
April 1, 2011
Published by Michael Berman at April 1, 2011
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The Court of Special Appeals of Maryland ruled in favor of a large group of premium finance companies that had been denied the timely hearing required by Maryland statutes, in a recent decision in AFCO Credit Corp., et al. v. Maryland Insurance Administration. The companies are challenging a ruling of the former […]
October 5, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at October 5, 2010
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The Attorney General of Maryland issued a formal opinion agreeing with commercial free speech arguments presented by Berman and RLLS in a matter pending before the Maryland Lottery Commission. “Referenda – First Amendment – Gaming – Slot Machines – Whether State Lottery Commission May Limit Licensee’s Participation in Referendum Related to Another […]
September 11, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at September 11, 2010
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In a law review article, co-authored by Michael Berman, entitled “Proportionality in the Post-Hoc Analysis of Pre-Litigation Preservation Decisions,” 37 U.Balt.L.Rev. 381, 384 (2008), the writers argued that application of the cost-benefit provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to pre-litigation preservation decisions would help reduce the current uncertainty regarding the […]
July 20, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at July 20, 2010
The Baltimore Sun reported on the arguments before the Court of Appeals of Maryland, the State’s highest Court, on the “slots” referendum. “Michael D. Berman, an attorney for the Maryland Jockey Club and the citizens group Citizens Against Slots at the Mall, argued before the court Tuesday morning that the right to […]
July 20, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at July 20, 2010
WBAL TV reported that during oral argument in the State’s highest court, “Michael Berman, an attorney for a group that opposes putting the casino near Arundel Mills Mall, said the framework of the constitutional amendment approved by Maryland voters in 2008 imposed the possibility of local discretion on where a casino could […]
July 20, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at July 20, 2010
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This is a link to a webcast of Berman’s July 20, 2010, oral argument in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. The Court issued an order that same day ruling in favor of the appellants represented by Mr. Berman. Citizens Against Slots at the Mall, et al. v. PPE Casino Resorts Maryland, LLC, […]
June 3, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at June 3, 2010
The Baltimore Sun reported on the seven-day hearing on the “slots” referendum in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, reporting that: “Michael Berman, an attorney for the community group, said the board [of elections] used ‘evenhanded, reasonable decision-making’ and that further examination of the carefully completed process would ‘disenfranchise voters based on […]
May 26, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at May 26, 2010
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On May 26, 2010, the Maryland Daily Record reported that Judge “Silkworth granted lawyer Michael Berman’s objections to both types of testimony, saying the line of questioning was beyond the scope of his inquiry into Cordish’s legal challenge to the Anne Arundel County Board of Elections’ approval of the petition drive. [Judge] […]
May 25, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at May 25, 2010
When opponents of the referendum petition argued that CASM is a “non-existent entity” created by the jockey club to disguise its involvement in the petition drive, they said: “It [CASM] was a deception to the prospective signers.” Michael Berman, arguing for CASM and others, responded: “I am here representing the non-existent entity […]
April 16, 2010
Published by Michael Berman at April 16, 2010
On April 16, the Annapolis Capital reported that Michael D. Berman argued in favor of a referendum petition and stated that the challenge “seeks to chill and taint the ongoing election campaign,’ said attorney Michael Berman, who represents Citizens Against Slots at The Mall, one of the groups formed to push the petition […]