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Maryland’s legislature has been busy in both its regular and special sessions and some new laws went into effect in June and July that will be of interest to businesses and lenders. 1. Tax on Indemnity Deeds of Trust. Traditionally,

In what has been considered by some to be the most important religious freedom decision in decades, on Wednesday the Supreme Court recognized, for the first time, a "ministerial exception" which precludes the application of discrimination laws to

Adjusting legislation that had previously passed during the 2010 Session seemed to be the general theme in Annapolis for the 2011 Session of the General Assembly. Certainly, no new ground was broken for the Maryland death taxes, wills and estate,

Does your company own the article, manual or handbook that it paid a contractor to write for the company? Does your company own the photographs that it paid a photographer to take? Does your company own the critical software that your company

Some of you deal with attorneys day-in and day-out, while some have been fortunate and have not regularly needed the advice of legal counsel. The likelihood is good, however, that there will come a day that you too will need to seek the advice of