Maryland Legal Briefs: December 5, 2006

Daily Record, The (Baltimore), Dec 5, 2006 by Daily Record Staff

Convicted teacher sued

A former Kent County High School English teacher convicted of having sexual contact with a student is now being sued by the student's family. In June, Kimberly Ann Cordrey-McKinney did not dispute charges of perverted practice for contact with a boy police say she first met at a soccer game. Cordrey-McKinney and the Kent County Board of Education have been sued for $250,000 each by the boy's mother, The (Easton) Star Democrat reported. The newspaper did not name the plaintiff to protect the boy's identity. According to the civil complaint, the boy has suffered "mental anguish, emotional pain and suffering and has incurred and will continue to incur substantial medical expenses," the newspaper reported.

New hires at FTI

FTI Consulting Inc., a Baltimore-based national provider of consulting and technology services, announced the hiring of professors Daniel L. Rubinfeld and Richard J. Gilbert, effective immediately. Rubinfield, 61, is the Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division. Gilbert, 61, is also a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, and like Bridges, served as a deputy assistant U.S. attorney general. While at the Justice Department, Gilbert led the development of the joint DOJ and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Rubinfield and Gilbert will be located in the San Francisco area.