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Alexandra Mitchell, a law clerk in the firm’s Baltimore, MD office and a third-year student at the University of Baltimore School of Law, recently attended the historical posthumous bar admission ceremony for Edward Garrison Draper.  Edward Garrison Draper was a free black man who was over qualified to be admitted to the Maryland Bar.  In… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Maryland Case Summary Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association v. Cree Appellate Court of Maryland 2023 Md. App. Decided: September 6, 2023 Because the last injurious exposure rule in Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. § 9-502(b) does not apply to occupational hearing loss cases as set out in § 9-505(b), when allocating liability among… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Maryland Case Summary Blitzer v. Breski Maryland Appellate Court 2023 Md. App. LEXIS 648 Decided: September 27, 2023 Plaintiff can be awarded $132,322.00 for injuries sustained from a dog bite while the dog was running at large. The Appellate Court unanimously found the Trial Court did not abuse its discretion in upholding… read more

Thomas, Thomas & Hafer (“TT&H”) is pleased to announce that Lucas J. Duty has joined the firm’s general liability practice group in the Baltimore, Maryland office.  Before joining TT&H, Lucas worked at a mid-sized firm in Baltimore County, focusing on family law.  While with that firm, Lucas handled a variety of family law matters throughout… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Maryland Case Summary Williams v. Morgan State Univ. Maryland Supreme Court Misc. No. 9, September Term, 2023 Md. LEXIS 339 Decided: August 14, 2023 Maryland’s waiver of sovereign immunity for tort actions held not to extended to federal statutory claims. Background Plaintiff originally filed a Complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore… read more