News & Insights

One of the factors considered when determining how much child support one parent should pay the other is the number of overnights the child spends with each parent.  Before October 1, 2020, if a child spent less 35% of the overnights (or 128 overnights per year) with one parent, then the other ... Read more >

Ferrier served as a panelist at the "Generation Z Women: The Future of Politics," a part of The Daily Record's Women Who Lead event series. ... Read more >

Downtown Partnership of Baltimore elects Ferrier Stillman to its executive committee.  Ferrier also serves on its board of directors. She represents individuals in her family law practice and health care companies in her health care and senior housing practice. Downtown Partners... Read more >

Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association elects Joseph M. Selba secretary of its board of directors. Joe’s bankruptcy/restructuring practice focuses on representing debtors, creditors, and trustees in insolvency proceedings, workouts, liquidations, financial restructurings, and bankruptcy litigation... Read more >

Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service appoints Richard L. Costella to its board of directors. Rich’s practice focuses primarily on bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, banking and finance, and commercial litigation matters. MVLS is a private, non-profit legal services provider established in 198... Read more >

It has been a year of many difficult adjustments for all Maryland employers.  A few more changes lie ahead, as new employment (and related) laws take effect October 1, 2020. The new laws include human relations protections, hate crime symbols, prohibitions on wage history inquiries, business... Read more >

Tydings welcomes Timothy R. VanCisin as an associate in its bankruptcy and litigation departments. Tim will handle bankruptcy proceedings, including workouts, liquidations, and foreclosures.  His litigation practice will include representing local businesses in commercial disputes ... Read more >

Maryland now recognizes a new cause of action, the tort of intentional interference with an inheritance or gift.  Previously, Maryland recognized the tort of wrongful or malicious interference with economic relations, which involved contractual or business relationships between the plaintiff an... Read more >

Hard on the heels of a disastrous spring that saw employers of all sizes laying off or furloughing employees in record numbers, a new law quietly passed in Maryland, which will impose heavy penalties on employers with 50 or more employees who fail to give sixty days’ advance notice of covered relo... Read more >

The Small Business Administration (“SBA”) and the Department of the Treasury released guidance on June 11, 2020 in the form of “Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) – Revisions to First Interim Final Rule” with subsequent revisions through June 19, 2020 (collectively, the “Revised Rul... Read more >