The Firm will be participating in the 5th Annual “Grow Your Business” Seminar & Expo presented by the Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce.  This year’s Seminar features Amy Nichols, Chief Executive Officer of Dogtopia, & Haley Firetti, Business Development Specialist at WJLA-TV ABC 7.  Jerry Gimmel and Steve Blomberg will be at the Expo and available for questions and discussion.  Registration [...]

GWEBLAW Partners Jerry Gimmel and Steve Blomberg once again have been honored as Super Lawyers in Maryland for 2012.  The Super Lawyers publication is based on the recommendations and votes of attorneys statewide and recognizes those attorneys that are in the top of their field.  Jerry has been recognized in the field of Estate Planning [...]

GWEBLAW attorney Karen Hulme Alegi has been honored as Rising Star in the area of Family Law by Maryland’s Super Lawyers for 2012.  The Super Lawyers publication is based on peer nominations and the professional achievement of attorneys statewide and recognizes those attorneys that are in the top of their field.  Before an attorney can [...]

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM  THE ATTORNEYS AND STAFF AT GWEB!  

GWEB’s Estate Planning attorneys frequently present seminars in the community.  These informative seminars cover such topics as the difference between probate and non-probate property, the different types of estate planning documentation, the importance of reviewing asset beneficiary designations, introduction to tax planning, and more.  Jerry Gimmel recently presented at the Rosborough Center at Asbury Methodist Village [...]

Karen Hulme Alegi attended the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) 16th Annual Symposium held in Columbia Maryland on Veterans Day.  The focus of the symposium this year was business valuations and other financial issues in divorce.  The nationally renowned speakers discussed methods for analyzing business valuation reports including tips for cross examination of your opposing [...]

Effective October 1, 2011 Maryland has modified the law prohibiting texting while driving.  Last year the legislature made it illegal to text while you were driving an automobile; however, it was classified as a “secondary” offense and no points were attached.  Under the new law, texting while operating a motor vehicle, as well as reading [...]

Maryland’s highest court has approved new rules to protect consumers from debt collection.   The new rules will, in part, force companies that buy consumer debt to present sufficient evidence to the court if they sue to collect on the debt. Debt buyers are companies that pay for the defaulted debt and gain the right [...]

GWEB attorneys have been busy attending various continuing legal education seminars and webinars.  Keeping up with ever changing laws and striving to improve our services for our clients are a crucial part of our practice.  In the past six months, some of the various “CLE’s” or Continuing Legal Education programs that our attorneys have attended, [...]

The staff at GWEBLAW are known not only for their sharp legal skills, but also, apparently, for their vegetable growing.  Our very own Abby Spencer received a blue ribbon at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair for her beautiful Red Cabbage (we saw it in person at our office) grown in her backyard garden.  And if [...]