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For the third consecutive year, Maryland Super Lawyers has named Ferrier R. Stillman to its 2017 Top 50 Women Lawyers in Maryland for her family law practice. Ferrier represents individuals in her family law practice.  She regularly negotiates complex separation and property settlement ... Read more >

Former Governor O’Malley signed into law a significant change to the Maryland Estate Tax that went into effect on January 1, 2015.  Prior to the new law, Marylanders had a $1,000,000 applicable exclusion from estate tax. Beginning this year, the applicable exclusion amount changes as follo... Read more >

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the fifth consecutive year, name Tydings to its 2015 “Best Law Firms” list. Tydings was named to the Best Law Firms list for the Baltimore metropolitan region in 15 practice areas:  antitrust law, antitrust litigation, arbitration, bankr... Read more >

People tend to associate Pre-Nuptial Agreements (or “Pre-Nups”) with the rich and famous, when, in fact, it is a useful tool for many of us. If you are planning to get married after having established yourself financially, you should think about protecting yourself and your assets. One way to pr... Read more >

The Maryland Court of Appeals recently decided a case that extends statutory immunity to a health care provider who evaluates, but in good faith decides not to admit, a patient for involuntary psychiatric care. The case, Williams v. Peninsula Reg’l Med. Ctr., involved a mother who brought her s... Read more >

Our power grid is all but broken. That was the frightening conclusion of a report issued this August by the U.S. Department of Energy. A full decade after a vast power outage shut down the Northeast, America’s electricity grid remains “highly vulnerable,” the report found, and its weaknesses a... Read more >

The Sondheim award is given every five years to the Leadership graduate who best exemplifies Walter Sondheim’s legacy of using power with humility to empower people and create possibilities for the Baltimore area community. Franklin Lee is one of the country’s leading authorities on socio-eco... Read more >

Effective January 1, 2015, employers with 15 or more full-time employees in Montgomery County, Maryland will be prohibited from inquiring about a job applicant’s criminal history prior to the conclusion of the first interview.  Montgomery County is the second jurisdiction in Maryland to pass ... Read more >

News of the Ebola virus in the United States has caused significant fear and paranoia among many, despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) and other public health agencies assuring us that the risk of contracting the virus is extremely low (you are more likely to be struck ... Read more >

Tydings has been recommended as a top litigation firm in Maryland in the eighth annual edition of Benchmark Litigation 2015, a publication of Euromoney/Legal Media Group.  The guide focuses exclusively on leading U.S. litigation firms and attorneys. In addition to naming the firm, Bench... Read more >