Do-it-yourself law: You might save money, but don’t count on it

Wandering the Internet can leave people with the heady feeling that they can do anything. In the cyber realm, after all, anyone can book airline reservations, file income tax returns or diagnose an illness and everyone is a political pundit. Computers help thousands of Marylanders every year take their divorces,... More

Trick or Treat! Do you have a lawyer?

What is the color of albumin? If your house has ever been egged on Halloween (or its evil twin, Mischief Night), you would know. It’s a slimy shade of egg white that inevitably becomes mixed with yellow streaks of egg yolk and a mosaic of eggshell shards. And it’s often impossible to remove. Get out the power washer, hire a painter, get really angry; but think twice about taking the brats who did it to court. The Halloween season of pranks and misdemeanors is upon us, and Baltimore attorney T.... More

Flawed evidence puts legal process on trial

Roland Walker has been practicing law since 1952. You’d think he’d seen it all, but he said his faith in the system was rattled to an unusual degree recently. More  Read More →

Think hard before buying a gun for your home

If you’re a homeowner, should you get a handgun to protect yourself? You may be asking this question in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning the D.C. law restricting handguns has led to an upsurge of interest in guns for protection. The instance of a Baltimore resident defending his house against a burglar also captured a lot... More

Divorce by download: cheap or even free

My mission: Test-drive commercial computer software that generates legal documents.  Step 1: Prowl the Internet for the software. Step 2: Put the car keys away. You can download forms to fill out on a computer and print for the courthouse files. More  Read More →

Stop the cycle of crime and prison

We’ve all heard prison horror stories: violence, intimidation, a never-ending quest to preserve one’s manhood. From the outside looking in, it is difficult to confirm or deny any of these accounts. Just the thought of confinement would give most law-abiding citizens the willies. Still, for many Marylanders, incarceration has become a way of life.  Why is this? Why would anyone choose to be locked up in a cage, surrounded by the same sex, and ordered about by a proverbial baby-sitter time and... More