In the Washington area, and particularly in Montgomery County, there are of course many businesses that compete for federal government contracts. One of the ways such businesses seek to protect their business is to require employees to sign employment contracts which contain covenants not to compete. These are provisions that purport to limit what kinds of jobs, at least for …

One of the more common types of claims for personal injury that we see in today’s world is a slip and fall or trip and fall claim against a property owner or manager. Certainly if someone can prove that the owner of a private premises had notice of a defect, and it caused injury to a someone lawfully on the …

There is no decision that a trial judge has to make that is more difficult than resolving a dispute over who should have custody of minor children. In this day and age when extended family members are often intimately involved in the lives of children, and often help raise them, courts have struggled with how to resolve disputes over whether …

Consumers who believe they have been sold a defective car have a number of potential legal remedies they can pursue. Maryland’s highest Court last week addressed what type of proof a car owner may need to collect for sale of an allegedly defective used car. The case of Crickenberger v. Hyndai provides some guidance for plaintiffs who want to make …