ABOUT US
Exhibit A cuts through the red tape and the yellow tape to bring you valuable information, entertainment and opinion from the world of law — free of charge and full of drama.
As a part of the umbrella of publications published by The Daily Record, Exhibit A is a monthly publication, written by a combination of veteran journalists and lawyers/writers, aimed at bringing clarity and understanding about the law to the general public.
With Exhibit A, we will provide our readers with interesting articles about recent cases, verdicts, disputes and other burning issues. Our goal is to be educational, yet entertaining at the same time. We will be a resource and a guide for people seeking knowledge about the law and how it affects their daily lives. This publication is the first of its kind in Maryland, and we’re proud of it.
Each issue of Exhibit A will be available in Baltimore City and parts of Baltimore County with a circulation of 30,000 copies. For more information, click here to read Danielle Ulman’s story on the debut from The Daily Record (or scroll to the bottom of this page).
In short, we are going to bring you the law in plain English. The evidence speaks for itself.
For online questions or problems, please contact Jackie Sauter, Web Editor, or call the Baltimore main office at 443-524-8100.
MEET THE EXHIBIT A TEAM
SUZANNE FISCHER-HUETTNER, Publisher
JULIE RUPERT, Product Manager
WAYNE COUNTRYMAN, Editor
JACKIE SAUTER, Web Editor
DOUG PULLER, Design Director
ERIN ALEXANDER, Senior Graphic Designer
JOE BOSWELL, Delivery Supervisor
Free monthly magazine will provide unique angles on law for non-lawyers
DANIELLE ULMAN
Daily Record Business Writer
Exhibit A, a free monthly magazine published by The Daily Record to provide a unique angle on the law to readers outside the legal world, will hit the streets Thursday.
The niche publication will offer young professionals and college students a better understanding of the law and how it intersects with their lives, said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, publisher of Exhibit A and associate publisher and vice president of The Daily Record, a Dolan Media publication.
The magazine will debut with 30,000 copies available in 165 boxes and at 300 retail locations in Baltimore City and areas inside the beltway in Baltimore County.
The first issue will feature articles on identity theft, safety issues on Maryland Mass Transit Administration vehicles, companies that restrict smoking by employees at home as well as on the job, and how banks must submit reports to the FBI on certain individual transactions.
There is also information presented in question-and-answer format on legal rights regarding police traffic stops and home foreclosures.
The launch of Exhibit A and its Web site, www.exhibitanews.com come at a time when the Baltimore media market is crowded with free publications battling for readership, but its publisher said she is confident the magazine will fill a need.
“Baltimore is a thriving city that craves information and knowledge. What better time than now to launch a publication and Web site that is news you can use and will connect readers with information that can improve their lives,” Fischer-Huettner said.
“We believe there is a market in Baltimore that is truly fascinated by the law and will look forward to reading this content each month,” she added.
Baltimore is home to several free newspapers, including the alternative weekly City Paper, the Examiner, a general news daily, and the recently launched b, a daily tabloid aimed at young adults published by The Baltimore Sun Media Group.
“There’s been a lot of free publications emerge here over the last year or two. I think there’s an effort to just try to find out what’s the appetite for this kind of stuff,” said John Morton, an industry analyst and president of Morton Research Inc. in Silver Spring.
“In the case of a free paper to explain law to non-lawyers … the only problem I foresee there is most people are only interested in laws that are directly affecting them in some way,” he said. “I’m not sure that you can offer a more general approach and attract them.”
But Christopher A. Eddings, publisher of The Daily Record, said the new magazine would offer information relevant to most.
“Exhibit A is an exciting new ‘take’ on law,” Eddings said. “It is interesting, fun, germane, valuable and written not for legal professionals, but rather for individual citizens, those who feel the impact of the law and need to understand it.”
Morton said he thinks explaining the law to lawyers would be more useful, but Fischer-Huettner said The Daily Record already covers traditional legal news.
“Exhibit A continues The Daily Record tradition of excellent, credible content written by expert journalists. We have been the legal authority for more than 120 years, so why not broaden our reach and share the knowledge with all Baltimoreans in plain English?” Fischer-Huettner said.
Exhibit A’s local content will be written by journalists in Baltimore and edited by Wayne Countryman, a veteran editor of newspapers and magazines. It will share national content with Boston’s Exhibit A magazine, launched in April 2007 by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, also a Dolan Media publication.
“The thing about new publications is that you don’t know if they’ll work until you try them,” Morton said. “Boston’s more of a legal center than Baltimore is, but it’s certainly worth a try.”
