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Recently, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland held that an alleged violation of Maryland’s Construction Statute was not grounds for excepting the debt from discharge pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 523(a)(4).  In re Vito, 598 B.R. 809 (Bankr. D. Md. 2019). The individual chapter 7 debtor, Sandra Vito (“Vito”), was employed…

On February 2, 2019, TJ Mulrenin embarked on his sixth trip to Guatemala with HELPS International, a nonprofit working across Guatemala to break the cycle of poverty with sustainable solutions in agriculture, community development, education and health care. The team of approximately one hundred volunteers from the United States consisted of doctors, nurses and health…

The Maryland Court of Appeals recently reviewed a case in which it was called upon to interpret the Maryland Uniform Arbitration Act (“MUAA”) in WSC/205LLC v. Trio Ventures, 460 Md. 244 (2018).  Specifically, the Court was asked to determine “whether a court may vacate an arbitrator’s decision for manifest disregard of applicable law” even though…

You start a small business and you run forward – sometimes in a straight line, but usually not, and always at full speed.  You could be fully occupied by your creating, marketing and distributing your product or service, but you still have to worry about everything and everyone else while keeping your eye on profitability…