BDBF News and Legal Updates

Bulman Dunie is thrilled to welcome Elizabeth (“Liz”) Farley as an associate attorney here at the firm! Liz will primarily work on personal injury and litigation matters. She comes to us having recently completed a judicial clerkship for The Honorable Robert Greenberg of the Montgomery County Circuit Court. Liz has graciously answered five quick questions...

A “Child Privilege Attorney’”(known in short as a CPA) is an attorney who can be appointed by the Court on behalf of the minor child (or minor children) in contested custody actions when the child has undergone mental health treatment or therapy. Just as adults enjoy privilege with mental health providers, children have a privilege...

Bulman Dunie attorneys Meg Rosan and Jeremy Rachlin have been selected by their peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America® for 2022.  Meg is recognized in Family Law.  Jeremy is recognized in Trusts and Estates. The Best Lawyers® publication is the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession.  It is one of the few publications to...

Let’s face it, thinking about planning your estate isn’t exactly a Saturday night out on the town. It can be stressful and, well, a tad morbid. As estate planning attorneys, we encounter many clients who come to us after a problem has already occurred. Often, those problems could have been eased, if not altogether avoided,...

Summer is here!  Millions of high school and college kids around the country are taking on summer jobs.  Back in the day, BDBF attorneys were in that same summer job market—we weren’t always attorneys!  Here, we share our best and worst summer jobs.   Jeremy Rachlin Best summer job— I spent five summers as the...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly every type of dispute involved mediation before a judge would hear the matter in court.  Mediation is when an unbiased third party, typically an attorney or retired judge, helps two parties come to a resolution outside of the courtroom.  As we emerge from COVID-19 and courts face monumental backlogs,...

Although courts are rapidly reopening around the DMV, many courts will continue to hold hearings via remote videoconference over Zoom, Skype, and other similar software.  This will especially be true for matters that can be decided by a judge only (also known as “bench trials”) or pretrial hearings.  Remote court proceedings have proven to be...