<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/newsroom/ubalt-law-hosts-symposium-on-marylands-expanded-voir-dire-pilot-program.cfm" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>02/11/2026</pubDate><title>UBalt Law Hosts Symposium on Maryland's Expanded Voir Dire Pilot Program</title><description>The University of Baltimore School of Law recently hosted From the Bench to the Bar: Unveiling the Voir Dire Pilot Program, a timely and substantive symposium examining Maryland’s Expanded Voir Dire Pilot Program and its potential impact on jury selection and the administration of justice across the state.</description><author/><image><img src="https://www.ubalt.edu/about/newsroom/assets/images/ubalt-law-sympossium4.jpg" alt="Dean LaVonda Reed and Judge Laura Ripken stand with a colleague in a modern university building during a formal event."/></image><image-cap/><quote/><quote-name/><quote-info/><tags><tag>Law</tag><tag>School of Law</tag></tags></item>