Archive: 2013

Even though sick leave is a customary benefit, no law requires Maryland businesses to offer sick leave -- paid or unpaid--to their employees. However, employers that do in fact offer paid sick leave (or any other form of paid leave) have certain obligations under Maryland law. [We intend to address the law in Virginia and Washington, D.C. in a forthcoming blog.]

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Since Maryland is an "employment at will" state, many employers think they can terminate employees at any time and for any reason at all. While this is true generally, there are two important exceptions.

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If you're an employer, you may be required by the Affordable Care Act (the "ACA") to notify your employees by October 1, 2013, about the new Health Insurance Marketplace established under the ACA. The new notification requirement applies to you if you are subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act, meaning that you employ one or more employees who are engaged in, or produce goods for, interstate commerce with generally over $500,000 in annual business.

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Press, Dozier & Hamelburg, LLC is pleased to announce that Fredric A. Press has been selected by the National Law Journal as one of Washington, DC and Baltimore's Top Rated Lawyers.

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Dan Dozier has been appointed to Montgomery County’s Water Quality Advisory Group by County Executive Isiah Legget. Mr. Dozier will serve a three-year term as a public representative at-large. The Water Quality Advisory Group recommends policies, programs and priorities to protect, maintain, and restore county water resources. 

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Do you need a lawyer to draft a lease? My answer might surprise you. In Montgomery County, Maryland, you might be able to adopt a do-it-yourself approach - at least for drafting a residential lease.

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I graduated from law school 40 years ago this June. The first 10 years of my career were peripatetic; four years with a Wall Street firm, two years with a regional DC firm, two years as an in-house attorney and two years with a firm that, in one guise or another, morphed into the firm I'm with today.

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"Effective Solutions From Creative Lawyers." That's the motto of our law firm, Press, Dozier & Hamelburg, LLC, and we really try to live up to that message. But do our clients and potential clients view us that way?

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