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Rosemary E. Allulis, a lawyer and world traveler who was also a photographer and musician, died Tuesday of liver cancer at her Villa Cresta home. She was 52. "She was a genius. She had a fast mind and was such a good writer," said Sidney Friedman, a partner in the Pikesville law firm of Weinstock, Friedman & Friedman, where Ms. Allulis had worked since 2008. "Whenever you gave her an assignment, she immediately turned it around. She was so good she could have clerked for a Supreme Court justice," he said.

The 25-year-old Baltimore-based law firm Offit Kurman recently formed a pioneering mortgage compliance affiliate, C3 Compliance Consultants, to help lenders across the United States conform with regulations launched this year by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a creation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Veteran mortgage banking and employment law attorney Ari Karen is founder and director of the new venture. C3's services are in high demand by companies from Los Angeles to Boston, Karen said.

Employees at the former ESPN Zone restaurant in Baltimore who were laid off without notice when the Inner Harbor attraction closed in 2010 were not compensated correctly under federal law and are due additional payments, a federal judge ruled Thursday. About 140 full- and part-time employees worked at the restaurant when it was closed June 15, 2010. In October 2010, a class-action lawsuit was brought against Zone Enterprises of Maryland, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Co., alleging that the company failed to give the employees 60 days' notice, as is generally required of companies with more than 40 employees under the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act. The Baltimore restaurant was one of five ESPN Zone locations nationwide closed at the time.

The parents of hundreds of victims streamed into a Baltimore law office, detailing abuse at the hands of a Delaware pediatrician convicted last year of sexual attacks on children. The Baltimore firm of Schochor, Federico & Staton helped negotiate a $123 million settlement for almost 900 victims — including about 100 from the Eastern Shore — who have come forward to claim a share of the compensation fund for Earl B. Bradley's victims. The pediatrician abused young patients in his office, sometimes videotaping the attacks.

Starting in June 2005, I had literally hundreds of conversations with men and women — mostly men, and mostly from Baltimore — about their struggles to land jobs after prison. Most employers wanted nothing to do with these guys, especially the ones who had committed violent crimes. But most of those I interviewed had not been convicted of killing anyone; they had not beaten anyone or engaged in armed robbery. Most were in their 30s and 40s and had gone away for selling or using illegal narcotics.

A Virginia firm is planning to convert 10 Light Street, Baltimore's iconic red-brick office tower topped with green and gold, into apartments. “The 520,000 square foot, 34 story structure will be converted to 445 for-lease residences,” according to a statement on the website of Metropolitan Partnership Ltd., the Reston, Va., development firm that purchased the building in November for $6 million. Ten Light was completed in 1929 and last sold in 2002, for $5.3 million to the Nellis Corp.

A Towson law firm has accused eight more doctors of playing a role in implanting unnecessary heart stents in patients at St. Joseph Medical Center, where cardiologist Dr. Mark Midei was accused of performing the procedure in hundreds of patients who didn't need them. The law firm of Kenny & Vettori filed claims on behalf of 39 patients this month with Maryland's Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office, which arbitrates malpractice cases. The claims are the latest in a string of legal actions against the embattled cardiologist and hospital.

Michael E. Loney, a retired Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judge recalled for his moderate temperament, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 5 at his Arnold home. He was 73. "He was a gentleman and a gentle man," said a friend, Judge Nancy Davis-Loomis, administrative judge of the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. "He loved the law, and he loved helping people in his private life and on the bench. He was always fair and always of moderate temperament. " Judge Davis-Loomis said, "He was the kind of judge you hope you get. " Born in Baltimore and raised on Monastery Avenue in Irvington, he was the son of a homemaker and a hardware salesman.

The state's highest court has indefinitely suspended Prince George's County Del. Tiffany Alston's law license for failing to properly represent a client and accounting problems at her law firm. Alston can apply to have her license reinstated but the decision offered no recommendation of when the court might be ready to reconsider its decision "This is because we do not wish to imply that merely after a certain period of time has elapsed [she] shall be considered favorably for reinstatement," Judge Mary Ellen Barbera wrote in the opinion.