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Best Lawyers Recognizes Tydings' Lawyers in 2013

May 23, 2013
Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has named six Tydings' lawyers to its 2013 Best Lawyers list. Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading ... Read more >
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"No-Fee" Mortgage Lenders May Not Collect Closing Costs Upon Prepayment

By: Alan M. Grochal
May 8, 2013
A new ruling by the Court of Appeals of Maryland prohibits banks and lending institutions from recapturing closing costs on "no-fee" mortgages that are subsequently prepaid by the mortgagor.  Lenders who offer these types of mortgages will now have to "eat" the closing costs on prepaid mortgage... Read more >
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What the HITECH Act Means to Employers and Other Businesses

By: Melissa Calhoon Jones
May 8, 2013
On August 24, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published new regulations in the Federal Register that detail the obligation of covered entities to notify employees and, in some cases, the media and Secretary of Health, in the event of breaches of unsecured protected health info... Read more >