CURRENT NEWS
| 6/19/2008 | WC&S Continues its Tradition of Leadership in the City Bar Association The 2008-2009 bar year for the Bar Association of Baltimore City is off to a great start with Partner Mary Alice Smolarek serving as President-Elect and Chair of the Long Range Planning Committee, Associate Meighan G. Burton is Chair-Elect and Co-Chair of the Events Committee of the Young Lawyers' Division, (more...) |
| 6/18/2008 | WCS Partner Bob Hesselbacher has been elected a memeber of the Board of Governors of the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. |
| 6/18/2008 | WCS Partner Bob Hesselbacher has been inducted as a Fellow of the Baltimore Bar Foundation, which makes grants to organizations serving the needs of the City of Baltimore. Fellows are nominated based on their professionalism, dedication to the practice of law and civic contributions. |
| 6/5/2008 | "Baltimore Catholic Lawyer takes hands-on approach to volunteering" |
| 3/10/2008 | WC&S Partner Stephen F. White will be speaker at the 6th Delmarva Charter Boat Operators Workshop organized by the University of Maryland and University of Delaware Sea Grant programs with a focus on business management, marketing, safety, and fishery resource issues pertaining to the charter and head boat industry. The seminar will be held March 20, 2008 at Harrison's Chesapeake House on Tighman (more...) |
| 3/9/2008 | WC&S Partner Louis Kozlakowski will be Captain for Rebuilding Together Baltimore this April 26, 2008 This year HGTV has donated money to the program and will be taping some of the project. You can learn more about Ms. Gaither who owns the house we will be working on by visiting www.rebuildingtogetherbaltimore.org |
| 12/26/2007 | Four WC&S Partners are named among Maryland’s 2008 Super Lawyers® Wright, Constable & Skeen, LLP, partners Robert W. Hesselbacher, Jr., Louis J. Kozlakowski, Jr., David W. Skeen, and Mary Alice Smolarek have been chosen for inclusion in “Maryland’s Super Lawyers® 2008”. Ms. Smolarek and Messrs. Hesselbacher and Skeen (more...) |
| 10/12/2007 | Firm Partner Robert Hesselbacher, Jr., was awarded the Defense Research Institute Firm Partner Robert Hesselbacher, which is completing his two-year tenure as Chair of the Defense Research Institute's Professional Liability Committee, was awarded the organization's Davis Carr Outstanding Committee Chair Award for 2007. The award, which was presented at Defense Research Institute's (more...) |
| 9/19/2007 | Firm Partner Stephen F. White has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2008 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Maritime Law. Firm Partner Stephen F. White has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2008 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America in the area of Maritime Law. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising over 2 million confidential evaluations by the (more...) |
| 9/19/2007 | Firm Partner Stephen F. White spoke at the Annual Conference of the Marine Trades Association of Maryland On September 12, 2007, firm partner Stephen F. White spoke at the Annual Conference of the Marine Trades Association of Maryland held at the Kent Island Yacht Club, on the subject of marina slip agreements and repair orders in a session entitled "What Your Company's Contracts should Definitely Contain." |
| 9/7/2007 | Firm Partner Robert Hesselbacher has been invited to speak on legal malpractice issues On September 28, 2007 Robert Hesselbacher was invited to speak on legal malpractice issues to an audience of state and federal appellate judges, appellate court staff attorneys and appellate lawyers at an upcoming nation conference of the Appellate Judges Education Institute. |
| 9/6/2007 | Firm Partner Kenneth F. Davies was selected to receive MVLS Firm Partner Kenneth F. Davies was selected to receive MVLS' (Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service) Leadership Circle Award for 2007. He will be honored along with the other award recipients on Wednesday, September 26, at the annual Recognition Reception. |
| 7/24/2007 | WC&S Attorneys appointed to new positions at annual meeting of the Bar Association of Baltimore City At the Annual Meeting of the Bar Association of Baltimore City (BABC), Young Lawyers’ Division Council, and Baltimore Bar Foundation, Inc. held on May 23, 2007, the following Firm attorneys were appointed to new positions: Mary Alice Smolarek, Esq., Partner President, Baltimore Bar Foundation, (more...) |
| 7/24/2007 | Firm Partner James W. Constable is an elected member of the Maryland Environmental Trust Board of Trustees Firm Partner James W. Constable became an elected member of the Maryland Environmental Trust Board of Trustees. The Maryland Environmental Trust (MET) is quasi-public statewide land trust established in 1967. Staffed with funds from the Department of Natural Resources, it is directed by an independent (more...) |
| 7/24/2007 | Firm Partner Robert W. Hesselbacher, Jr. is inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America Firm Partner Robert W. Hesselbacher was inducted into the Litigation Counsel of America at the LCA’s Spring Conference and Induction of Fellows in New York City on June 21, 2007. The Litigation Counsel of America (www.trialcounsel.org) is a trial lawyer honorary society composed of less than one-half (more...) |
| 5/11/2007 | WC&S Associate Mollie Shuman is to become Chair of the Young Lawyers of the Baltimore City Bar Association on May 23, 2007. |
| 5/10/2007 | WC&S Partner Michael J. Abromaitis is completing his six-year term as a Trustee of Loyola Blakefield. He has just finished his four-year term as Trustee as Governor Robert Ehrlich's representative on the Board of the Walters Art Museum. |
| 5/10/2007 | WC&S Partner Robert Hesselbacher was published in the March 2007 edition of "For the Defense", the monthly publication of the Defense Research Institute. DRI is a national organization of more that 22,000 defense trial attorneys and corporate counsel. Bob is Chair of DRI's Professional Liability Committee. |
| 4/23/2007 | Firm Partner Robert Hesselbacher has been named a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA,www.trialcounsel.org), a newly formed national honorary society of trial lawyers. Membership in the Academy, which is by invitation only, is intended to recognize attorneys who have been determined to have been effective and accomplished in litigation and are of high ethical reputation. (January (more...) |
| 4/20/2007 | Three WC&S Partners are named among Maryland "Super Lawyers" of 2007. Robert Hesselbacher, David Skeen, and Mary Alice Smolarek have been named among Maryland's 2007 "Super Lawyers". The Super Lawyers selection process identifies five percent of lawyers in the state based on nominations from peers and evaluations for professional achievement in particular areas of practice. (more...) |
| 4/20/2007 | Firm Partner Robert Hesselbacher has been named Chair of the Fee Arbitration Committee of the Bar Association of Baltimore City for the 2006-2007 Bar year. The committee provides a service to the public and to the Bar by arbitrating fee disputes involving lawyers and clients. (December 2006) |
| 4/1/2007 | WC&S Managing Partner Monte Fried attended the bi-annual 3 day National Litigation Management Conference held by Laidlaw International, Inc. On March 7-9, 2007, Managing Partner Monte Fried attended the bi-annual 3 day National Litigation Management Conference held by Laidlaw International, Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada for its panel attorneys from throughout the United States. Laidlaw's subsidiaries are the largest providers of school (more...) |
| 4/1/2007 | WC&S Partner Stephen F. White will be speaking on the subject of "Maritime Products Liability Law" WC&S Partner Stephen F. White will be speaking on the subject of "Maritime Products Liability Law" at the Biennial Education Seminar of the AIMU (American Institute of Marine Underwriters) on May 10, 2007 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. |
| 4/1/2007 | WC&S Partner Stephen F. White will be speaking on the subject of "Salvage Liquidation and Disposal" WC&S Partner Stephen F. White will be speaking on the subject of "Salvage Liquidation and Disposal" at the Spring meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Mariners' Club on April 10, 2007 at the Gov. Calvert House in Annapolis, Maryland. |
| 2/1/2007 | WC&S Associate Eric Schline elected for a second two-year term as President/Chairman of the Board for Helping Other People Through Empowerment, Inc. WC&S Associate Eric Schline was elected for a second two-year term as President/Chairman of the Board for Helping Other People Through Empowerment, Inc. HOPTE is a local 501(c)3 which operates a daytime drop-in center for homeless individuals diagnosed with a mental illness and also a "Safe Haven" (more...) |
| 12/29/2006 | WC&S Partner David W. Skeen recognized by Baltimore City Bar David W. Skeen was recognized by the Bar Association of Baltimore city for his 13 year support of the Baltimore City Drug Court program. The Baltimore City Drug Treatment Court, in operation since 1994, is a treatment-based program for non-violent addicted offenders in the District and Circuit Courts (more...) |
| 12/15/2006 | Current issue of "Viewpoints" available for download Click here to download
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| 12/5/2006 | WC&S Partner Fred Kobb appointed President, Board of Directors, People's Community Health Center Fred Kobb is appointed President, Board of Directors, People's Community Health Center, which serves low income and uninsured patients in Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County.
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| 12/1/2006 | Louis J. Kozlakowski presented a training workshop , "A Seminar on Real Estate Law 101 for School Systems" Louis J. Kozlakowski presented a training workshop , "A Seminar on Real Estate Law 101 for School Systems" to employees of the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The workshop familiarized employees of ASBO to become familiar with property law and (more...) |
| 9/1/2006 | Jason R. Potter, Esquire, joins WC&S as an Associate in the Construction Law and Litigation practice areas. Jason is a graduate of The Ohio State University (B.A. 1995, Political Science) and the University of Baltimore School of Law (J.D., 2005), where he also earned the “Clinical Excellency Award” (2004-2005), He clerked for The Honorable Thomas E. Marshall, Circuit Court for Harford County (2005-2006), (more...) |