Womble Carlyle's Stephanie Yarbrough has been appointed to the Board of Directors of SCBIO.

Maryland Secretary of Commerce and friend of the firm Mike Gill will be honored with the Boy Scouts of America 2017 Baltimore County "Good Scout" Award.

In the classic 1972 film "The Godfather," Don Vito Corleone frequently gives his rivals an "offer they can't refuse."

Digital data collection and surveillance gets more pervasive and invasive by the day; but the best ways to protect yourself and your data are all steps you can take yourself.

With the Republicans gaining control of the Senate in yesterday's elections, there is a greater chance that Congress may enact reforms to the merger approval process.

Law360.com published an article that I wrote about a recent divided Fourth Circuit decision on the pleading standard for a motion to dismiss an antitrust conspiracy.

Check out this white paper on antitrust risks in merger and acquisitions.

The extent to which the O’Bannon decision will impact college sports comes down to whether Judge Wilken’s opinion survives the NCAA’s appeal to the Ninth Circuit.

On Wednesday, August 30, the US Department of Health and Human Services issued a recommendation to re-classify cannabis as a Schedule III controlled substance under federal law.

Rep. Rick Glazier announced he will leave the General Assembly at the end of the session after seven terms representing Cumberland County in the House of Representatives.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated 65,000 regular cap for fiscal year 2020.

A group of interdisciplinary scholars (from Northwestern, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Wisconsin) a have recently collected, refined, and published a 26-year dataset of medical liability insurance premiums on SSRN.

"Courts have held that there is no duty on a lender to ensure that a loan is suitable for a borrower," wrote Judge Jones in a recent case dismissing a fraud and misrepresentation claim brought by a home owner against the lender.

The Supreme Court has vacated the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's decision upholding a Berkeley, California ordinance requiring cell phone retailers to warn customers ...

Several months ago, business owners on Route 29 filed a lawsuit against federal and state transportation officials challenging the plan to build a grade separated interchange at Route 29 and Rio Road.

We get into the details of that unique political species: the "municipality" (really, the legal name for cities and towns).

Ikea won recognition this week for putting that same thinking toward the plight of refugees.

Middlebrook notes that at this point in time the problem is mostly theoretical because storage capacity limits make keeping large amounts of data in a blockchain impractical.

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