Smith aide to resign

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Baltimore County Executive Jim Smith?s senior adviser will resign to create and chair a “government affairs” practice at a prominent development-based law firm, officials announced Wednesday.

Effective Friday, departing aide Damian O?Doherty will chair the new department for the Baltimore firm Gildea & Schmidt LLC. The county released a statement hailing O?Doherty as a rising star in Democratic political circles and a critical county link to the administration of Gov.-elect Martin O?Malley.

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