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Rachel Konieczny

Baltimore

Legal Affairs Reporter at The Daily Record (Baltimore, MD)

Legal affairs reporter for @MDDailyRecord || @BonasJSchool @UNHLaw and @Cronkite_ASU alumna, dog enthusiast. she/her

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  • 6 days ago | thedailyrecord.com | Rachel Konieczny

    Fee matrices for awarding attorneys’ fees cannot be the sole tool used by courts in determining the amount a winning party is owed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled Tuesday. In a published opinion written by Judge Toby Heytens, a three-judge panel for the 4th Circuit overturned a $167,115.49 fee award to attorneys of Melehy & Associates LLC in Silver Spring, a firm that has been at the center of another highly publicized dispute over its fees.

  • 1 week ago | thedailyrecord.com | Rachel Konieczny

    ANNAPOLIS—State prosecutors cannot use recordings seized by Anne Arundel County police in the trial of an Anne Arundel County Orphans’ Court judge accused of illegally recording his judicial colleagues, a judge ruled Tuesday.

  • 1 week ago | thedailyrecord.com | Rachel Konieczny

    Attorneys from Baltimore-based Goodell DeVries have formed a new firm specializing in business and cannabis law. The new firm, Corey Tepe, LLC, launched Monday and maintains an office in Columbia. Justin Tepe, managing attorney at Corey Tepe, said he and Kaitlin Corey previously worked as partners at Goodell DeVries and have complementary practices that allow their new firm to be a full-service practice.

  • 1 week ago | thedailyrecord.com | Rachel Konieczny

    For many law firms, it’s “one size fits one” when it comes to reshaping a firm after partners have left to start their own practice. Randi Lewis, managing director of legal recruiting firm Major, Lindsey & Africa, said a firm’s future following the departure of counsel depends on more than one factor, including the size of the firm and what the firm decides to do next.

  • 2 weeks ago | thedailyrecord.com | Rachel Konieczny

    The Maryland Office of the Attorney General has settled with a Cecil County nursing and rehabilitation facility for $1.2 million after the state alleged the facility provided substandard care to residents.

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28 Mar 25

RT @MDDailyRecord: The judge is accused of engaging in verbal altercations and secretly recording conversations with judicial colleagues, a…

Rachel Konieczny
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27 Mar 25

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Rachel Konieczny
Rachel Konieczny @rachelkonieczny
25 Mar 25

An investigation by MD's judicial disciplinary body found that the chief judge of the Anne Arundel County Orphans' Court engaged in verbal altercations with a judicial colleague, among other sanctionable conduct. But the judge cites workplace violence. https://t.co/J8SFnSTEXP