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The Daily Record has been publishing legal and Lifetime Achievement honors an exceptional news and information since 1888. The legal man and women who have achieved great things audience comprises our core readership, and that professionally and in the community, making a is why we launched the Leadership in Law event in sustainable impact on Maryland. I want to thank 2001: We wanted to honor members of Maryland’s the legal community for supporting this change legal community who are excellent attorneys and and nominating more than 70 people for these judges but are also making an impact on the state new categories while still nominating candidates through community service and mentoring. The for Leadership in Law. Daily Record is proud to shine a spotlight on the Of course, the pinnacle of the awards Danny Jacobs leaders that you will meet in this magazine. celebration remains when the Top Leader in Legal Editor, The Daily Record For the 15th anniversary of Leadership in Law the Law is announced. The Leadership in Law last November, we announced that we would be winners selected this winner through a secret moving the event to the first week of May to tie ballot and the name is kept a secret until the night to Law Day celebrations happening all over the of the celebration. U.S. We also added two new categories – Lifetime Maryland’s legal community protects, creates Achievement and Generation J.D. change and makes a difference in the lives of so Generation J.D. highlights those individuals many, every single day. The Daily Record wants to who are the up and coming generation of leaders say thank you for your commitment to excellence.
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“If we can help provide services to people who might otherwise just get run over by the legal system, I think we have an obligation to do it.”
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hen it comes to closing journalist; he worked for the Associated Press the justice gap, as Robert Radio Network in Washington D.C. and for the Anbinder, chief solicitor investigative unit of WJZ-TV before deciding in the Litigation Division to switch to a legal career that offered a chance of the Baltimore City Law for better security. He attended law school at WDepartment puts it, a pro bono attorney can night and graduated in 1992. make a difference in a legal case just by being “I believe that lawyers need not only take present. care of themselves and their families but they “If we can help provide services also have an obligation to try to to people who might otherwise give back to make the world a bit just get run over by the legal better,” he said. system, I think we have an Later in his legal career, obligation to do it,” Anbinder TOP Anbinder helped write and said. He helped create the city WINNER edit the “Journalists’ Guide to law department’s “user friendly” Maryland’s Legal System,” which pro bono policy and advocates is located on the Maryland for other government agencies The Top Winner Judiciary website and elsewhere to adopt them as well. He’s also a is selected by a on the web. He’s also served member of the Court of Appeals secret ballot of for a variety of associations, Standing Committee on Pro Bono, all of the 2016 including the Attorney Grievance and a volunteer and mentor for Leadership in Law Commission, the Baltimore the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers honorees. Courthouse and Law Museum Service. Foundation and the Chizuk “I also try to encourage others to take on pro Amuno Congregation synagogue in Pikesville. bono,” Anbinder said. In 2015, Anbinder became the president of Aside from furnishing a vital service, the Bar Association of Baltimore City, a career he said pro bono work makes attorneys highlight, he said. He’s expanded his dogged better by improving their commitment to efforts to promote pro bono work by creating their professional teams and the broader a new weekly email newsletter that includes community. It can also allow them to follow a “Pro Bono Link of the Week,” which allows their interests in different legal areas they organizations to recruit from the association’s wouldn’t normally follow at their day jobs; membership. A dedicated government lawyer, public defense attorneys, for instance, can try Anbinder said he’s still always looking for new their hand as a plaintiff’s lawyer. ways to serve the community that inspires him. “You get to see the law from the other side, “I am looking for other opportunities to give that just makes all of us better,” he said. back after the bar presidency,” he said. “At 59, I Anbinder is a former television and radio still have time to do that.”
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“I always see something I want to change. I have really enjoyed being a lawyer and a judge. In fact, I think this is about the best job in the world.”
HON. TIFFANY H. ANDERSON ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE • DISTRICT COURT OF MARYLAND FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
iffany H. Anderson, administrative judge for the this April. District Court of Maryland for Prince George’s County, She’s also worked to improve the efficiency, by, for example, works hard each day to make sure the team she likes shortening the daily docket to 20 or so cases per judge instead of and respects, including one of the state’s busiest 35 per day, Anderson said. The former rate didn’t leave sufficient benches, is happy in their jobs. time to finish each case by the end of the day, clogging the TFor instance, Anderson is pleased to report the court’s staff docket and delaying the conclusion of trials. members are getting new work stations this summer for the first Anderson even takes a case from time to time, taking along a time in 24 years. notepad to jot down ideas for improvement. “I’m focused on the staff, making their work environment “I always see something I want to change,” she said. “I have better,” Anderson said. “That translates to serving the public. I really enjoyed being a lawyer and a judge. In fact, I think this is know that every day I go to work, I want to have an impact on about the best job in the world.” the people who are coming before the court.” Appointed as administrative judge in 2014, Anderson said she In 2015, she and her team instituted a roundtable symposium has been honored and humbled by the nod, particularly because for the District Court, inviting lawyers to meet and interact with she is one of the first African-American women to have been judges to gain more knowledge of each other’s work and the day- appointed to the position. to-day processes of the court, she said. They also learned how “For me, that brings a lot of responsibility,” she said. “I want some new state laws are impacting cases in various legal fields. someone else to say, ‘I can aspire to be that person and do that.’” The event turned into such a hit, the court scheduled another for
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“It’s the cases that no one has really heard about, the kids that I’m able to give a second chance, those are the cases I’m most proud of.”
IVAN J. BATES MANAGING PARTNER • BATES & GARCIA PC van Bates has handled a number of high-profile cases as proud of,” Bates said. a criminal defense attorney. Bates currently represents Another career highlight has been starting his own firm, Baltimore police Sgt. Alicia White, one of the highest ranking Baltimore-based Bates & Garcia PC, in 2006. officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray. “I like having my own business,” he said. “It lets you put your He previously defended a Drug Enforcement Agency agent in career in the direction you want it to go. It’s very rewarding.” Ithe Silk Road case that ultimately led a federal judge to sentence He also gives back to his community and those he cares about: the founder of the illegal online marketplace to life in jail. He created a nonprofit, the Baltimore United Foundation, to Bates has also been on the other side of the courtroom as an provide small donations mostly to local sports teams for new assistant state’s attorney with the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s uniforms or a trip to a tournament, he said. Office. “There are groups who need small dollar amounts, so I give But one of the most rewarding aspects of his career involves them something to make what they’re doing a bit easier,” Bates providing legal services to “others who didn’t really think they said. could have had a good lawyer,” Bates said. He also makes it a point to speak and mentor to youth in the In some cases, this has involved pro bono work, but it’s also community, as he was mentored by two loving parents and a meant providing counsel at a discounted rate to a mother broader community that supported him. working an extra shift to pay for a lawyer to represent her son, he “I think being an African American, seeing how these younger said. kids look up to me, I’m able to sit down with them and help “It’s the cases that no one has really heard about, the kids that them understand some of the pitfalls and obstacles that are I’m able to give a second chance, those are the cases I’m most there,” he said.
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“I continue to teach and mentor students because I want the next generation of lawyers to be of the highest integrity and willing to give back themselves.”
MARNELL A. COOPER ATTORNEY • PALMER|COOPER LLC native Baltimorean, Marnell Cooper has traveled the college at a high level. But, after graduating from the Community world representing clients in trade and diplomatic College of Baltimore County, he earned a bachelor’s degree from the efforts. University of Maryland, College Park and then his law degree from Yet he considers one of his most significant the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law. accomplishments as an attorney taking a case from a In 2012, Gov. Martin O’Malley and Baltimore Mayor Awoman that more than a dozen other firms rejected, he said. The Stephanie Rawlings-Blake jointly appointed Cooper to serve as a woman was on the verge of being evicted from her home of 25 commissioner on the city’s Board of School Commissioners. As years. chairman, he spearheaded one of the city’s largest school building “What I realized is that the attorneys before me did not stop to campaigns, which he said will allow students to move from some listen to her case,” Cooper said. “She did not have any money and of the oldest facilities in the country to modern digs. it did not look as if she stood a chance.” Cooper established a small, successful firm, of which he is But after months of work, Cooper resolved the case in her favor currently the principal attorney focusing on general business law, so that she was allowed to stay in her home and was awarded a six- antitrust, consumer protection, employing, lending and securities figure judgement, he said. law, among other topics. “This case has inspired me to listen to everyone who walks in He also became a coach at UM Carey’s mock trial team, the door and to do what I can to help them,” Cooper said. mentoring more than 100 attorneys in civil litigation and even A resident of Baltimore’s Cherry Hill and Edmondson Village wound up hiring a few of the students he coached, Cooper said. neighborhoods, Cooper graduated from one of the lowest “I continue to teach and mentor students because I want the performing high schools in the Baltimore, Cooper. At the time, next generation of lawyers to be of the highest integrity and willing he felt he wasn’t academically or socially prepared to perform in to give back themselves,” he said.
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“Whether our clients face careless doctors, greedy insurance companies or too- big-to-fail corporations, MAJ members are often the only ones standing up to protect the interests of the underprivileged, the destitute and the injured.”
DAVID V. DIGGS SHAREHOLDER • KAHN, SMITH & COLLINS P.A. aryland may be known as a blue state, but underprivileged, the destitute and the injured,” he wrote in a for David Diggs and his colleagues in the recent MAJ newsletter. Maryland Association for Justice, laws that, During last year’s session, the MAJ helped usher in say, maintain a cap on non-economic damages an expansion of the Maryland False Claims Act, which in personal injury civil suits or that prevent incentivizes whistleblowers to report fraud against state and Mcivil punitive damages for drunken drivers run contrary to a local governments, as well as reforms to the Tort Claims Act by progressive legal framework. increasing caps to damages. As president of MAJ, Diggs helms one of the state’s largest A partner at Kahn, Smith and Collins’ Millersville office, Diggs specialty bar associations, counting some 1,300 plaintiffs’ litigates personal injury and medical malpractice cases, and has attorneys from across the region as members. 25 years of experience representing clients in family law cases. Among its functions, the association remains active in Looking back over the course of his career, Diggs said he’s lobbying at the state legislature for bills its members view will especially proud of the pro bono services he’s provided, including improve the civil justice system, and several dozen of its active free family law mediation services through the Baltimore City members worked to develop positions on hundreds of bills Circuit Court. during the General Assembly’s 2016 session, Diggs said. “Outside of our profession, I find joy and fulfillment in “Whether our clients face careless doctors, greedy insurance coaching hundreds (after 23 years, it may be thousands) of Anne companies or too-big-to-fail corporations, MAJ members are Arundel county boys and girls in soccer, football, basketball, often the only ones standing up to protect the interests of the baseball and lacrosse,” he said.
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“I think you have to be a good listener, be empathetic, and also willing to have tough conversations with people sometimes.”
NANCY MCCUTCHAN DUDEN COUNTY ATTORNEY • ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY OFFICE OF LAW
hen Nancy McCutchan Duden was chosen response to a broad host of issues, including social services, to be county attorney with the Anne public safety, education and public parks. She’s prosecuted Arundel County Office of Law in 2014, it complex code-enforcement cases in the circuit and appellate had brought her life full circle, the result of courts and established and implemented a program to screen patient ascension along a steady career path. egregious code violators for referral to state agencies for criminal W“It’s really fulfilling to be the lead attorney in the county I’ve prosecution. always lived in,” said Duden. She and the county have been working on improving land In the mid-1980s, when she first started work as an attorney and obtaining easements to open up trails with access to Anne for an Annapolis-based firm, it wasn’t unheard of to see a female Arundel’s abundant waterways for more members of the attorney “but there were still a lot of differences in the way we community to enjoy swimming and have boat ramp access, she were treated,” she said. said. She’s also proud of an initiative to expand the number of She proved herself with her work ethic, began to cultivate highs schools in order to shrink class size. colleagues’ trust and found she had a knack with management Duden has also dealt with the complications that arise from roles. being in one of the first counties in the state living with the real- “I think you have to be a good listener, be empathetic, and world implementation of the medical marijuana industry and also willing to have tough conversations with people sometimes,” the passions of people on both sides of the issue, she said. Duden said. “We do such a variety of work that touches on lives all over the As county attorney, Duden’s expertise is demanded in county,” Duden said.
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“I met and worked with some extraordinary people and learned how rewarding it can be to work on such a project of such importance to my profession and my community.”
ROBERT L. FERGUSON JR. PRESIDENT AND SHAREHOLDER • FERGUSON, SCHETELICH & BALLEW P.A.
commitment to professional excellence” is “I met and worked with some extraordinary people and the motto for the Baltimore-based Ferguson, learned how rewarding it can be to work on such a project of Schetelich & Ballew P.A. The same saying can be such importance to my profession and my community,” he said. used to describe its president and shareholder, The Committee led to the formation of the Baltimore Robert L. Ferguson Jr. Coalition Against Substance Abuse Inc. and a drug treatment “AHe is involved with many organizations dedicated to making court in the District Court of Maryland for Baltimore City. the legal field better, including as chairman of the Court of Ferguson counts working on the committee as his most Special Appeals Character Committee for the 6th Appellate significant professional accomplishment to date. Circuit and the Maryland State Bar Association’s Special Ferguson founded his firm in 1996, and his practice centers on Committee on Professionalism. civil litigation, including concentrations in insurance coverage Ferguson first became active with his profession in 1990 and defense, aviation, maritime and transportation law, and when he was asked by David W. Skeen, then-Bar Association of products and professional liability defense. With a focus on trial Baltimore City president, to serve as a member of the Russell work, he enjoys taking on interesting cases and the ability to aide Committee – a group dedicated to study and report on the drug clients out of stressful situations and issues. crisis and underfunding of the city courts. “I like helping people and the challenge of the work,” he said.
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“And nothing is more satisfying to me than giving back some of that to the community and to our professional organizations.”
GERALD J. GAENG PARTNER, CHAIRMAIN OF LITIGATION • ROSENBERG MARTIN GREENBERG LLP hen attorney Gerald J. Gaeng thinks He graduated from Towson University with a bachelor’s degree back on his most significant professional in philosophy and earned his law degree at Emory University. He accomplishment thus far, he remembers decided to become a lawyer because “I thought it was a chance to working on the case of a death-row inmate make a difference in people’s lives,” he said. convicted of murder nearly 20 years ago. “Based on my background in philosophy, I like to WWhile the conviction had been affirmed, the death sentence was communicate,” he continued “I appreciate good communication reversed on appeal and remanded for sentencing. and rational argument.” For more than 20 years, Gaeng has given Gaeng successfully argued the state’s witness who identified his his time back to his undergraduate alma mater by serving on client as the shooter was not credible. The judge gave his client a all three of Towson’s institutional boards. He currently assists life sentence. Years later, the man was freed for time served after as the co-chair for the university’s year-long 150th anniversary DNA undermined the eyewitness evidence. celebration. Today, Gaeng serves as partner and chair of the litigation Gaeng also gives his time to a number of other organizations, group at Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP in Baltimore and is including serving the Lawyers Campaign Against Hunger and driven every day by the chance to serve clients and help them the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. solve their problems. “I’ve been given great opportunities, a wonderful education “I enjoy learning about client businesses and I enjoy the and substantial mentoring,” he said. “And nothing is more community of attorneys that I work alongside and against,” he satisfying to me than giving back some of that to the community said. and to our professional organizations.”
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“One day I am going to be done with all of this, I want to be able to look back on it and not just look at the good briefs that I wrote and the cases that I won, but I want to be proud of what I did for a living and something my kids can be proud of, too.”
MIKE GOECKE LITIGATION PARTNER • LERCH, EARLY & BREWER CHTD.
ike Goecke didn’t grow up in a family of Since 2011, he has volunteered his time as Montgomery County lawyers or know anyone in the profession. His Bar Foundation pro bono committee chair and a member of the view was shaped through books and movies Maryland Standing Committee on Pro Bono. like “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “Anatomy of a “I’ve been able to sustain a commitment to pro bono Murder” and “A Civil Action.” throughout my 18 year career so far and I have been fortunate MWith a love of writing and debate, he decided to become a that I have worked at firms that supported it and embraced it,” he lawyer because he knew the job would be interesting, have the said. ability to provide for a family and could help the community. Goecke recently explained his job to his 7-year-old daughter A litigation partner with Lerch, Early & Brewer Chtd. in and how he tries to help people in need. When they were Bethesda, Goecke’s practice handles a range of business and tort walking down the street one day, the two saw a homeless man. matters. She realized that Goecke’s job could help the man. “As a professional, you want to help people,” he said. “Whether “It makes me proud of what I do,” he said recalling the it’s for your paying clients or your pro-bono clients, you want to memory. “I feel like I am setting a good example for my kids. help solve their problems. When you can do that and help people One day I am going to be done with all of this, I want to be able get through a difficult situation, it’s incredibly rewarding and to look back on it and not just look at the good briefs that I wrote satisfying.” and the cases that I won, but I want to be proud of what I did for Goecke performs around 100 hours of pro bono work a year. a living and something my kids can be proud of, too.”
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“I enjoy participating in rulings that have relevance both to the parties and to the development of the law. I understand the responsibility of my job and I give my very best to every case reported or unreported.”
HON. KATHRYN GRILL GRAEFF JUDGE • COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND
s a judge for the Court of Special Appeals of that have relevance both to the parties and to the development of Maryland, Kathryn Grill Graeff hears a variety of the law. I understand the responsibility of my job and I give my cases including murder, family law and business very best to every case reported or unreported.” disputes. Graeff has served on the Maryland Professional Center’s Board “It really is an amazing job and I look forward to of Directors since 2012. She got involved with the center because Athe challenge it presents every day,” she said. they promote professionalism and stability in the law. She is From a very young age, Graeff knew she wanted to be a lawyer. also is a member of the Maryland Judicial Council’s education “I just loved the idea of solving problems and helping people,” committee and has been in charge of training all the new law she said. clerks and staff attorneys for the Court of Special Appeals. A graduate from the University of Maryland Francis King Since Graeff has learned so much from others, one way Carey School of Law, she worked as an associate with Smith, she gives back is by helping to develop and give lectures in Somerville and Case for four years as an associate before joining educational programs for judges and lawyers. the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland in 1990. Over “The law is such an interesting topic and there are so many the next 18 years, she would rise from assistant attorney general interesting issues that are presented every day,” she said. “I enjoy to the chief of the criminal appeals division before her judicial talking about the legal profession with others. I particularly appointment in 2008. enjoy educational programs for young people. Their enthusiasm “It’s been an honor to serve the state of Maryland as both an is very contagious.” advocate and a judge,” she said. “I enjoy participating in rulings
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“I feel like I have to lead by example for my students and so I continue to take on pro bono cases. It is my obligation as an attorney to be doing pro bono.”
JILL GREEN ASSISTANT DEAN • UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW
orking as a University of Baltimore School with the opportunity to take on pro bono work while still in law of Law assistant dean in the Law Career school. Development Office, Jill Green aims to The Alternative Spring Break also was created four years ago train, mentor and support emerging leaders as a way for students with busy schedules to give back to the and young lawyers while giving them a community or participate in pro bono work for that week. Wsense of responsibility to give back to their communities. “We wanted to bring the opportunities to them and create Green chose the legal profession because of her desire to help direct pathways for them to contribute,” she said. “It’s incredibly others and deliver services to those in need. rewarding (seeing the programs succeed) and now they are just a “The bulk of my actively practicing life was in legal services part of what we do here. I think that is the best part.” representing low income folks or children,” she said. Green continues to take on pro bono cases, focusing on Clinical teaching attracted her to the educational aspect of the domestic violence and immigration. Her work is a way to law. Green has created several new programs at her alma mater keep her skills sharp and help to stay connected to the legal Now in its third year, Women Lawyers as Leaders brings community. together law students, young alumni and leading women lawyers “I feel like I have to lead by example for my students and so I and judges to discuss issues and encourage career growth. The continue to take on pro bono cases,” she said. “It is my obligation Pro Bono Challenge, started in 2012, provides law students as an attorney to be doing pro bono.”
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“Based on the guidance provided by my family, the bench and fellow lawyers, I’m determined to improve the profession and I became actively engaged in mentoring both law students and attorneys.”
LAWRENCE GREENBERG PARTNER • GREENBERG LAW OFFICE
awrence Greenberg is the managing partner of Greenberg in 2013. During his tenure, he created a student chapter of MAJ Law Office and represents clients in the areas of serious at his alma mater, the University of Baltimore School of Law. personal injury and criminal defense. Greenberg earned his bachelor’s degree at Boston University. Greenberg is involved in several bar associations, He serves as a captain in the JAG, Maryland Defense Force. He including the Maryland Criminal Attorneys Association, is a past volunteer at the House of Ruth and the Susan G. Komen Lthe Baltimore County Bar Association, the Baltimore City Foundation. Bar Association and the Maryland Association for Justice. For Since 2008, Greenberg has been teaching fellow attorneys and the latter group, he served as chairman of the public outreach has mentored both law students and attorneys. This year, he committee, where he oversaw efforts to supply bike helmets to taught a litigation process class at University of Baltimore, and lower income children throughout the state. He also steered later this year will participate in a two-day seminar designed to the group into a partnership with the Baltimore City Fire help practicing attorneys improve their work. Department that raised money for several initiatives, including “Based on the guidance provided by my family, the bench and providing University of Maryland Medical Center with funding fellow lawyers, I’m determined to improve the profession and to assist families while their loved ones were patients there. I became actively engaged in mentoring both law students and Greenberg’s leadership led him to be elected MAJ’s president attorneys,” Greenberg said.
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“When only the wealthy are able to access justice, the entire society suffers.”
KRISTIN HERBER SENIOR COUNSEL, LITIGATION • UNDER ARMOUR INC.
s senior counsel to Under Armour, Kristin Herber results are more important than when she is representing clients has to stay on top of her game. on a pro bono basis, because those clients are typically seeking She joined one the nation’s fastest growing sports assistance with legal matters that are deeply personal. apparel retailers in 2013 after working for the Herber’s first pro bono client sought a divorce and a way out of Maryland Office of the Attorney General and two an abusive relationship, which Herber helped her achieve. ABaltimore litigation firms. Herber received a bachelor’s degree “When lawyers provide pro bono service, that also positively from University of North Carolina and attended the University affects the society at large because access to justice is so vital to of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. our society,” Herber said. “When only the wealthy are able to It was while studying to become an attorney that Herber began access justice, the entire society suffers.” volunteering at food pantries, first at St. Michael’s Outreach Herber is the president of the board of directors for the Center in Fells Point and then at CARES in Govans, where she annual fund at Roland Park Elementary and Middle School. continues to volunteer today. She is the vice president of the board of directors for the Pro In a way, the volunteer work has framed how Herber sees her Bono Resource of Maryland Inc. and serves on the board for professional success, which she measures in the results she is able the Emerging Technology Center, the Govans Ecumenical to achieve for her clients. Nowhere, she said, does she feel that Development Corporation and other groups.
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“I believe that access to quality education is the single most important variable in reversing the trend of systematic violence that has permeated our culture.”
QUINTON M. HERBERT DEPUTY LABOR COMMISSIONER • OFFICE OF THE LABOR COMMISSIONER FOR BALTIMORE CITY
uinton Herbert serves Baltimore in two ways role, he mentors students at Barclay Elementary and Middle – as the deputy labor commissioner, a role that School, and is currently working to start an after-school he has held since 2013, and as a mentor to city program at Abbottston Elementary School. Along with three students other attorneys, he also mentors at-risk young men attending As former associate counsel to the Baltimore Frederick Douglass High School in West Baltimore. QCity Board of School Commissioners, he successfully defended “I believe that access to quality education is the single most the commissioners in the first bullying case to be tried under important variable in reversing the trend of systematic violence the theory of negligence. His defense, along with an article he that has permeated our culture,” Herbert said. wrote on the issue, were used by several jurisdictions facing Over the past five years, Herbert has been instrumental in similar trials. He also worked with counsel in Baltimore and a drive to provide school supplies to more than 600 Baltimore Prince George’s counties to develop trial strategies for this type students. Through his church, he also spearheads two annual of negligence case, and both jurisdictions won court victories. food basket distributions. Finally, he volunteers with the In 2015, Herbert was selected from hundreds of applications nonprofit HopeSprings, serving as a state-certified HIV tester as one of 12 of the American Arbitration Association’s A. Leon and linking those with HIV or AIDs with necessary services. Higginbotham Fellows. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland Francis King In addition to his legal work, Herbert serves as pastor at Carey School of Law and Morgan State University. Christway Christian Baptist Church in Waverly. Through this
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“I do not focus on awards. If I can help families who have struggled with a cancer diagnosis or create a professional environment where people enjoy their work that is enough.”
MATTHEW G. HJORTSBERG MANAGING PARTNER • BOWIE & JENSEN LLC
or Matthew Hjortsberg, the focus is on doing good work Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and served as their board every day. Hjortsberg began his career with Bowie & president from 2011 to 2013. This group become the major focus Jensen as an associate in 2000, and in 2011, was named of his volunteer work after his wife was diagnosed with cancer head of litigation and a managing partner. He calls and later went in remission. He has worked with families affected himself a believer in “leadership by example” and has by cancer and testified in Annapolis on legislation that had an Fworked to create a culture of professionalism and equality at the impact on low income families faced with a diagnosis. firm. In 2007, as a law student, Hjortsberg traveled with classmates “When we hire new lawyers, I have made it a policy that to the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and worked with secretarial staff, paralegals and other lawyers participate in the families who needed legal services. He has coached girl softball interview process so everyone feels included in the decision for eight years and served on the board of his daughter’s swim making process,” Hjortsberg said. club, providing the group with legal counsel as well. He graduated from the University of Maryland Francis King “I do not focus on awards,” Hjortsberg said. “If I can help Carey School of Law, where he has since served on the alumni families who have struggled with a cancer diagnosis or create a board, and Hobart College. professional environment where people enjoy their work that is For the past decade, Hjortsberg has volunteered with the enough.”
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“Some may think it counterintuitive. But strong collegial relationships with opposing counsel allow us to be more effective advocates for our clients.”
KELLY HUGHES IVERSON PARTNER • GOODELL De VRIES
elly Hughes Iverson specializes in products liability to be more effective advocates for our clients. I also believe in and litigation. She joined Goodell DeVries in 1994 providing lawyers with the tools they need – such as improved and became a partner in 2001. She has represented jury instructions – to better represent their clients.” numerous community hospitals, academic medical With her colleagues at Goodell DeVries, Iverson serves meals centers and individual health care practitioners in quarterly at Our Daily Bread. The experience is important, she Kmalpractice claims. She also has represented manufacturers in said, because they are serving those in need. But it also gives her injury claims. and her coworkers the chance to work together in a different Iverson is the treasurer of The Bar Association of Baltimore setting. In addition, Iverson is a board member at St. Agnes City and vice president of the Baltimore Bar Foundation. She is Catholic School and for the Young Victorian Theatre Company. chairwoman of the Civil Subcommittee within the Pattern Jury “I feel strongly that the arts and artistic expression are of vital Instruction Committee for the Maryland State Bar Association importance to a civil and diverse society,” Iverson said. “I hope and also serves on the group’s law committee. By working to be able through my volunteer work to bring the arts to a wider with these groups, Iverson hopes to improve relationships and audience.” collegiality within the legal community. Iverson graduated from the University of Maryland Francis “Some may think it counterintuitive,” she admitted. “But King Carey School of Law and The College of William and Mary. strong collegial relationships with opposing counsel allow us
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“Although my ego has been satisfied with my trial work, I have been truly humbled and my professional and personal life has been truly rewarded with my accomplishments with the lawyer assistance committee.”
JAY D. MILLER TRIAL ATTORNEY • LAW OFFICES OF PETER G. ANGELOS PC
ay Miller is a medical malpractice and personal injury State Bar Association’s lawyer assistance committee, the last attorney. In 2013, Miller was one of the attorneys five years as vice chairman. He holds a similar role with the who represented more than 300 clients in a medical Baltimore County Bar Association. Both committees assist malpractice suit against Dr. Mark Midei and St. Joseph lawyers and judges with alcohol and drug problems. In some J Medical Center over unnecessary coronary artery instances, Miller has driven lawyers to treatment centers to stents. He helped to negotiate the largest medical malpractice ensure they checked in and received needed treatment. He also settlement in the state and the case caused hospitals across the supports their recoveries as they return to their careers. country to review their procedures. “Although my ego has been satisfied with my trial work, I have Here in Maryland, the General Assembly established a been truly humbled and my professional and personal life has subcommittee to study statewide protocol for stent procedures to been truly rewarded with my accomplishments with the lawyer ensure that only necessary medical devices would be implanted. assistance committee,” Miller said. Miller earned both his bachelor’s and law degrees from the In 2005, Miller received the Judith P. Ritchey Achievement University of Baltimore. He serves on the Baltimore County Bar Award from the Baltimore County Bar Association, which Association’s executive council. is given to members who make significant, unrecognized For the past 14 years, Miller also has served on the Maryland contributions to the association.
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“I clerked for a federal appellate judge and knew, after that year was over, that this is the gig I wanted.”
HON. DOUG NAZARIAN JUDGE • COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND
hen Doug Nazarian went to law school, his black motorists wrongly detained and searched along Maryland father got a sympathy card from a doctor highways. friend. He also provided free legal representation to inmates wrongly Nazarian, a Yale graduate, also had detained in Maryland prisons, Alabama children in foster care expected his next step to be medical school, and clients of a sexual assault/spousal abuse resource center in Wthe path of many in his family. But after a semester of obligatory Bel Air. pre-med biology and math courses, brightened by a psychology Before his appointment to the appellate court in 2013, class, his interests began moving him toward a different path. Nazarian served as chairman of the Maryland Public Service “I really connected, not only with the material, but the idea of Commission, where he previously was general counsel. Over trying to understand people better,” said Nazarian, now a judge more than four years as PSC chairman, he led consideration of on Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals. utilities’ requests for rate hikes, mergers and public complaints The analytical processes used in the law and psychology are about unreliable electric service and frequent, prolonged storm- similar, he said. And law and psychology share a connection with related outages. people and the ability to understand some of their problems. All was preparation for being “struck by lightning,” which is His own interest in people and community service has been one way he describes the opportunity to be a judge. a theme throughout his career. As coordinator of pro bono “This is what I always wanted to do since law school,” Nazarian work in the Baltimore office of Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan said. “I clerked for a federal appellate judge and knew, after that Lovells), Nazarian put together a team of lawyers to represent year was over, that this is the gig I wanted.”
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“I am proud of my tenure on the board and the perspective that I brought as a member of the bar.”
LAWRENCE E. SCHMIDT PARTNER • SMITH, GILDEA & SCHMIDT LLC
awrence Schmidt’s varied legal career has spanned a wide “I am proud of my tenure on the board and the perspective range of fields, from civil and criminal litigation to land that I brought as a member of the bar,” Schmidt said use and zoning. He has been a partner with Smith, Gildea Not surprising for someone who served the community & Schmidt since 2004; prior to that, he served as Baltimore through education, Schmidt also enjoys mentoring young County zoning commissioner for 13 years. lawyers and law students as well as assisting with high school LSchmidt also served on the Baltimore County Board of mock trial programs. Education for six years, leading the board as president from 2011 Schmidt is a board member of the Greater Towson to 2015. The highly regarded county school system is the 26th Committee, Timonium Methodist Church, Baltimore County largest in the country and educates a diverse population of nearly Chamber of Commerce and the Trial Table Law Club. He also 110,000 students, which made Schmidt’s role both demanding volunteered with the Lutherville-Timonium Recreation Council’s and fulfilling. girls’ softball program. While Schmidt was on the board, Baltimore County schools Schmidt received a bachelor’s degree from Western Maryland had a successful transition to a new superintendent and College, now McDaniel, and earned his law degree from the implemented a transformative multiyear technology program. In University of Baltimore School of Law. addition, several new schools and additions were built.
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“Having a clear understanding of the costs before the engagement begins makes for a pleasant and productive business relationship.”
JANE FRANKEL SIMS FOUNDER & MANAGING ATTORNEY • LAW OFFICE OF JANE FRANKEL SIMS LLC
hen Jane Frankel Sims opened her boutique managing partner of Strata Law, an associate at Miles & estates and trusts law practice in Towson Stockbridge and an associate at DLA Piper. Sims serves on the in 2008, she felt certain of two things. The board of trustees for Park School, as president of Park School’s first was that a law practice that focused on Alumni Counsel and the Jewish Museum of Maryland. one concentrated area would allow her to In 2014, an interest in supporting first-generation college Wdeepen her knowledge of the subject matter and also to better students led Sims to Stevenson University, where she now serves serve better her clients. on the board and advocated for the creation of a multiyear The second was that legal clients are often fearful of scholarship for undergraduates who need emergency financial unexpected costs. The fix for that, she felt, was to adopt a flat- assistance to remain in school. Sims also serves as a mentor to a fee model. This immediately eases the biggest stressor in any paralegal in her firm, who was a lawyer in her native Mexico and attorney/client relationship — billing, Sims said. moved to the United States to improve her English. With Sims’ “Having a clear understanding of the costs before the guidance, she enrolled in the University of Baltimore Law School engagement begins makes for a pleasant and productive business and is learning the field of trusts and estates. relationship,” she said. “I cannot emphasize enough the relief and Sims received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University pleasure that clients express.” and her law degree from Harvard Law School. Prior to opening her own firm, Sims was the founder and
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“The day after the case was over, the judge told me that what we did without getting paid was amazing, because without us, our client would have lost everything.”
ADAM M. SPENCE PRINCIPAL • SPENCE | BRIERLEY PC
dam M. Spence lives by the Rotary motto, “Service through the Rotary Club of Towsontowne and the Boy Scouts of Above Self,” so it makes sense that he calls winning America. a $1.5 million judgment for a client who was in “I am trying to give our youth someone they can look up to for danger of losing his property his best professional guidance as they pursue their dreams,” he said. accomplishment. He has also assisted undergraduates and law students with ASpence, managing partner of Spence | Brierley PC in Towson, job referrals and career and interview pointers, and instructs obtained the judgment against a developer who was trying them about how to practice law professionally and ethically. to take inherited property from his client. Spence and his co- In addition, he has mentored several attorneys through the counsel incurred about $500,000 in legal fees during a long battle Maryland State Bar Association, and develops and presents that ended when the ruling was upheld on appeal. continuing legal education programs. “The day after the case was over, the judge told me that what “One of the most important topics I bring up in mentoring we did without getting paid was amazing, because without us, students and attorneys is how they can give back to society,” he our client would have lost everything,” said Spence, who was said. “Success as a lawyer is not measured by the size of your eventually paid. house or how fast your car goes. It’s measured by the legacy we Spence, the father of three sons, has long helped young people leave for our clients and community.”
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“As a family law attorney, I work to resolve painful family disputes in a way that moves families and children toward healthy co-parenting and growth and away from high-conflict relationships.”
FERRIER R. STILLMAN PARTNER • TYDINGS & ROSENBERG LLP
errier R. Stillman has been a health care advocate for legislators and other officials on behalf of the two nonprofit Maryland families since 1995, when she was the assistant boards. secretary for business and regulatory services with the “I fought for a bill that passed in 2014 that requires insurance Maryland Department of Health & Mental Hygiene for companies to send explanation of benefits forms to patients, two years. rather than the insured member of their family, upon the FStillman, now a partner with Tydings & Rosenberg LLP in patient’s request,” she said. “This law protects the privacy of Baltimore, takes great pride in her years as board chair for domestic violence and sexual assault victims who do not want Planned Parenthood of Maryland, from 2010 to 2014, and has their parents or spouse to know they have obtained health care.” been on the board for 10 years now. Stillman’s community service experience has helped her build “My fundraising and direction of the organization as chair in a a flourishing health law and family law practice. period of transition from a longtime CEO to a new CEO helped “As a family law attorney, I work to resolve painful family strengthen its services, especially for low-income women,” she disputes in a way that moves families and children toward said. healthy co-parenting and growth and away from high-conflict Stillman, who also has been on the board of trustees with the relationships,” she said. “I also provide the advocacy that clients Center for a Healthy Maryland since 2007, has lobbied state need to move on with their lives.”
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“Seeing the church members’ joy upon finally being able to break ground on their church building after enduring years of discrimination and arduous litigation made me proud to be an attorney.” BRIAN TUCKER PARTNER • GALLAGHER EVELIUS & JONES LLP
rian Tucker is thankful that his practice at Gallagher break ground on their church building after enduring years of Evelius & Jones LLP allows him to focus on his passion discrimination and arduous litigation made me proud to be an for community service and representing nonprofit attorney,” he said. organizations. Tucker has also led his firm’s summer associate recruiting “From churches to social service agencies like program for several years and mentors junior associates at the BCatholic Charities to colleges, I have been privileged to help my firm. clients work to achieve their missions,” said Tucker, a partner “For many students, we are their first exposure in a legal with the Baltimore law firm. “It is thrilling to help clients reach environment and it can be exciting and overwhelming,” he said. their objectives when I know they are working every day to “I make it a priority that each student has a productive and strengthen our communities and state.” positive experience.” Tucker said protecting the First Amendment rights of a church Tucker takes pride as well in mentoring the firm’s junior in Prince George’s County has been among his career highlights lawyers because many of the senior lawyers there helped him so far. He worked with others in his firm through a long trial when he was starting out. and appeals process that obtained a $3.7 million judgment for “I always have an open door and am willing to talk through Reaching Hearts International, allowing the organization to issues with young lawyers,” he said. “Watching them successfully build a church. take on new challenging responsibilities gives me great “Seeing the church members’ joy upon finally being able to satisfaction.”
THE DAILY RECORD | THEDAILYRECORD.COM 33 LEADERSHIP IN LAW “Having a stranger save my life by going through a painful bone marrow procedure for me reminded me of the importance of paying it forward, which is a guiding principle in my personal life and practice.
MICHELE BRESNICK WALSH MEMBER • GORDON FEINBLATT LLC
eating leukemia after being told she had a 20 percent life and practice,” said Walsh, who earned her law degree from chance of survival in 2008 had a profound impact on the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Michele Bresnick Walsh’s personal and professional Mary in Williamsburg, Va. life. She was a founding board member in 2010 of the nonprofit “I never let it deter my spirit, and I proved to myself group There Goes My Hero, which recruits new people to Band others what a fighter I am,” said Walsh, a member of the join the bone marrow registry and provides healthy meals to business, securities law and health care practice groups at leukemia patients and their families. Gordon Feinblatt LLC in Baltimore. “I am proof that a positive “We have added more than 10,500 people to the registry, have attitude makes all the difference and I carry that attitude into my found 125 matches and 17 have gone on to have life-saving law practice.” transplants,” she said. Walsh missed a year of work during treatment, which included Walsh also has been active in the Lawyers Campaign Against a bone marrow transplant, and recovery. Hunger, which raises money for the Maryland Food Bank and “Having a stranger save my life by going through a painful the Capital Area Food Bank. bone marrow procedure for me reminded me of the importance “I have always been committed to community service, but of paying it forward, which is a guiding principle in my personal even more so after I recovered from leukemia,” she said.
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“When I was growing up in the Philly suburbs, eating at Le Bec Fin was a pie in the sky. To work with them as a lawyer was a dream come true.”
BECKI L. YOUNG FOUNDING PARTNER • HAMMOND YOUNG IMMIGRATION LAW LLC
ecki L. Young recently represented a Burmese victim Young has been handling immigration cases for many years, of domestic violence who sought asylum in the United often in the hospitality industry, where she has represented more States. The woman first moved to South Korea, where than 100 of the most prominent hotels and restaurants in the she married a South Korean man who became abusive, U.S. and she then fled to the U.S. “I provide my hospitality clients with innovative, long-term B“It is very unusual for South Korean citizens to apply for solutions for retaining top foreign talent, including chefs, asylum because it is a developed country with many internal sommeliers and restaurant and hotel managers,” Young said. legal protections,” said Young, a founding partner with She said being retained as the immigration attorney for Le Hammond Young Immigration Law LLC in Silver Spring, who Bec Fin, a famous French restaurant in Philadelphia that is now handled the case pro bono. “I argued that the victim was in closed, was her proudest professional moment. danger as a member of an ethnic minority who had fewer rights “When I was growing up in the Philly suburbs, eating at Le than native Koreans, and as a woman under cultural pressure not Bec Fin was a pie in the sky,” she said. “To work with them as a to involve police in family disputes.” lawyer was a dream come true.” The woman was granted asylum, which is unusual because Young holds a bachelor’s degree from University of asylum is usually approved only in cases of political violence, Pennsylvania and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Young said. Center. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers “Its application to domestic violence is still a developing area Association. of law and the case is setting precedent,” she said.
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“Each life touched by these courts is transformed and the ripple effect of that transformation changes our communities positively, one life at a time.”
36 LEADERSHIP IN LAW SHEILA R. TILLERSON ADAMS ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE • PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY
s a judge, Sheila R. Tillerson “I have been fortunate enough to lead Adams seeks to solve this project through a very dark period problems. Two big problems before and after a devastating fire that were apparent to her in her completely destroyed the historic structure Prince George’s County to the reopening of a beautifully restored ACircuit Court courtroom – the lack of courthouse that today services an average of resources for returning veterans charged five thousand visitors a day,” Adams said. with a crime and a comprehensive re- It was important to her that the entry program to transition offenders courthouse meet the needs of “all of the back into society after serving sentences. citizens of the county from the severely Working with the community she disabled to the vulnerable children in served, Adams aggressively pursued our system,” which required quite a bit of the creation of two courts – the first a cooperation from state and local officials. In veteran’s court that joins Prince George’s all, the renovation effort took 15 years. County, the Veterans’ Administration Adams first served as associate judge and the community to assist veterans in in district court in 1988 and later as the criminal justice system. As part of associate judge in circuit court from 1996 the program, veterans are partnered with to 2010, when she began her current role as mentors who will assist them in working administrative judge. through red tape to receive the benefits to Adams has served on the Board of which they are entitled. Governors for the Prince George’s County The second court, a re-entry court, is Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar the first of its kind in the state and helps Association and as a regional director for offenders find jobs and housing, assisting the National Bar Association. She also is a them as they reintegrate into society and past president of the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar their families. Association. “These courts serve the basic needs Adams chairs the county bar’s Law Links of the citizens we serve and change lives Committee, which provides paid summer while reducing recidivism and restoring internships for high school students family units and communities,” Adams interested in law. said. “Each life touched by these courts is “I have seen young people transform transformed and the ripple effect of that during this eight week summer journey, transformation changes our communities become confident in their oratorical skills positively, one life at a time.” and make life changing decisions about their The groundwork for these two important educational goals,” she said. courts actually started with a renovation Adams holds a bachelor’s degree from project and what Adams feels is her most Morgan State University and law degree significant professional accomplishment – from Howard University School of Law. shepherding the renovation, restoration and She also received an LLM in taxation from construction of the courthouse complex in Georgetown University Law Center. Upper Marlboro.
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“We asked them not to just join, but to actually give back, to invest their time and talent in their community of choice and to assume leadership roles in those communities.”
38 LEADERSHIP IN LAW RONALD A. BARADEL DIRECTOR • COUNCIL, BARADEL, KOSMERL & NOLAN P.A.
hen Council, Hospice Cup Inc., Anne Arundel County Baradel, Kosmerl & CASA and Wellness House of Annapolis. Nolan was founded Founding his firm, Baradel also has in Annapolis in mentored hundreds of law clerks and 1985, Ronald associates, an accomplishment that makes WA. Baradel wanted to be sure that him very proud because many of these community service was one of the firm’s young lawyers have gone on to successful core values. How to do that was clear to careers. him. Baradel is known for representing Larry “We encouraged our attorneys to find Swartz, an Anne Arundel County teenager a community outside our law firm and accused of killing his adoptive parents to become involved in that community, in 1984 in a case that received national whether it’s a homeowner’s association, attention and inspired both a book and a TV the chamber of commerce, their local movie. PTA, their church or synagogue,” Baradel “My representation of Larry Schwartz said. “We asked them not to just join, but (along with Joseph Murphy and Richard to actually give back, to invest their time Karceski) represented the highest ideals of and talent in their community of choice the legal profession,” Baradel said. “We all and to assume leadership roles in those represented Larry zealously on a pro bono communities.” basis, there was a huge amount of publicity Emphasizing service was the right attendant to the case, and our efforts thing to do, Baradel said. But as the firm helped to cast the legal profession in a very supported, financially and otherwise, favorable light in the local community.” the projects that were important to the Baradel has served on the Appellate attorneys and staff, colleagues learned Judicial Nominating Commission and the about causes that were important to each Maryland State Bar Association’s Committee other and grew together. on Judicial Appointments. Before starting “Community service brings balance to his firm, he was an associate and then a our lives,” Baradel said. partner at Hartman and Crain and he began To that end, Baradel serves as a his career as an FBI special agent. Baradel trustee for Indian Creek School and is holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount St. the former president of the Rotary Club Mary’s University and law degree from of Annapolis. He serves on the board for Georgetown University Law Center.
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Tara A. Barnes has been a civil defense attorney since 2012, but cites the TARA A. BARNES lessons learned as an assistant state’s attorney for Baltimore City as some of the ASSOCIATE • ROLLINS, SMALKIN, most important in her career. RICHARDS & MACKIE LLC “I set a goal of ensuring I sought justice, and not convictions, I used the discretion at my disposal to advocate for the citizens of Baltimore and not personal benefits, and I served the public and not law enforcement or a political or social purpose,” she said. “This was a challenging task, particularly during my tenure of prosecuting sex offenses.” Barnes is a board member of Beat the Streets and serves the community through the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys of Maryland, Monumental City Bar Association, Bar Association of Baltimore City, Maryland Defense Counsel and Maryland State Bar Association. Through the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys, she organized a Civic Law Academy at Friendship Academy in Cherry Hill, where 20 attorneys and judges organized mock trials and participated in law discussions with students.
Jamar R. Brown joined Rosenberg Martin Greenberg LLP in Baltimore last month after four years as a city prosecutor. JAMAR R. BROWN ASSOCIATE • ROSENBERG MARTIN One particular burglary case involving a defendant charged with multiple home invasions in Charles Village sticks in Brown’s mind. The defendant had GREENBERG LLP an opioid dependency and Brown worked with the Charles Village community association to structure a sentence that included treatment. One of the home owners whose property was stolen spoke in court about the impact of the crime, but also encouraged the man to get treatment and to become a contributing member of society. “The victim’s statement, expressing both trauma and hope, helped reinforce in me the awesome responsibility prosecutors have to not simply seek a conviction, but also support prevention and reentry efforts to deter crime and reduce recidivism,” Brown said. Brown serves on the board for the Clarence H. “Du” Burns Memorial Fund and on the board for his alma maters, Emory University and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
HON. JOHN ALVIN As an administrative judge for the EEOC, Hon. John Alvin Henderson Jr. decides cases of workplace discrimination involving federal employees. HENDERSON JR. “One of the best parts of this job is that I mentor law students and new ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE • U.S. EQUAL lawyers through our summer judicial law clerk program,” Henderson said. This is a role he hopes to continue; already, he has taught as an adjunct EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION instructor at the University of Baltimore. Henderson serves on the board for the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland and is a senior warden at Old Saint Paul’s Church of Baltimore, working with fellow congregants to build homes in Pigtown and to serve meals to the homeless. He also serves as a volunteer for the House of Ruth of Maryland.
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While in law school, Jordan Lysczek successfully lobbied the Maryland General JORDAN J. LYSCZEK Assembly for an increased penalty for those convicted of a child abuse offense that ATTORNEY • LYSCZEK LAW OFFICE PC results in death. The cause was a personal one for Lysczek, whose infant daughter was killed by the child’s father. “I witnessed firsthand the difficulty in establishing malice of forethought in child abuse cases,” Lysczek said. “It took two years of work for the law to pass. But since its passage, several convicted child abuse abusers have faced an increased sentence, comparable to the sentence one would face if convicted of second-degree murder.” In 2015, Lysczek opened her own “low-bono” practice in Hancock, serving low- to-moderate -income clients who do not qualify for legal aid but cannot afford an attorney at market rates. Her practice offers a sliding scale for fees. She volunteers with the Washington County Bar Association, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Hospice of Washington County and founded the Rural Children’s Fund, which raises money for nonprofits that serve children and families.
KATHLEEN Kathleen McClernan-Walz started her career as a public defender in St. Mary’s County. It was there that she defended an 18-year-old man accused MCCLERNAN-WALZ PRESIDENT • ST. MARY’S COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION of assaulting his stepfather in a case that she considers her most significant professional accomplishment. The defendant faced mental health issues and an intellectual disability and McClernan-Walz advocated for him to be deemed incompetent to stand trial and then be placed in a group home “It was a quite win,” McClernan-Walz said. “It was not a fancy case that made the headlines, but it was one of my greatest professional accomplishments to date.” McClernan-Walz volunteers as a mock trial coach at Leonardtown High School. Through the St. Mary’s County Bar Association, she helps fundraise for a college scholarship for a local high school student and participates in Law Day. She hold a bachelor’s degree from University of Arizona and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
BENJAMIN MEREDITH Benjamin Meredith has worked as a litigator with Iliff, Meredith, Wildberger ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY • ILIFF, MEREDITH, & Brennan since 2011, but credits the time he clerked for Judge Joseph F. WILDBERGER & BRENNAN PC Murphy Jr. on the Court of Appeals as setting his legal career in motion. “The knowledge I gained in many areas of the law was invaluable,” Meredith said. “Working for Judge Murphy on a daily basis taught me more about legal writing than I learned in the entirety of law school. I am very proud to have served as one of his clerks.” Meredith serves on the Maryland State Bar Association’s Judicial Appointments Committee and volunteers with Habitat for Humanity and Woodswise: The Severna Park Elderly Housing Corporation. In 2010, he founded Starboard Clothing Co., an Annapolis-based clothing company that sells hand-crafted ties. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Flagler College and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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Heather Pruger announced at age 4 that she wanted to be a lawyer. By age 15, she HEATHER R. PRUGER had graduated from high school and received an incredible opportunity from the ASSOCIATE • WOMBLE CARLYLE SANDRIDGE & RICE LLP managing partner of a small law firm who gave Pruger a chance to work there. Pruger eventually became a paralegal, put herself through college, first Montgomery College and then University of Maryland, and supported her mother and younger siblings. During that time, she also testified before the Maryland General Assembly in favor of the HOPE Scholarship, which provides educational funds to students who start their college careers at two-year institutions and then transfer to four-year schools. Not surprisingly, education is the focus of Pruger’s volunteer work; she serves as a dean for the CollegeBound Foundation, which provides scholarships and other resources to under-served Baltimore students, and is a board member of Baltimore Corps. Pruger practices business law and believes Baltimore is ready to be a center of innovation. “Baltimore is attracting young entrepreneurs, millennials, with amazing ideas but also with a dedication to giving back to the community and changing the community for the better, not just as charity, but as an integral part of their business,” she said.
Jeremy D. Rachlin practices in the specialized area of estate and trust administration and litigation, representing clients in high-conflict situations JEREMY D. RACHLIN PARTNER • JDKATZ PC and helping them to avoid litigation while still serving their roles as trustees. He was second chair in an argument before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in the matter of Pair v. Queen, which resulted in a new district law on the delegation of duties among co-personal representatives of an estate. Rachlin is co-chair of the Montgomery County Circuit Court Bench-Bar Committee and volunteers as a judge for the Maryland High School Mock Trial Competition. Rachlin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park and a law degree from the university’s Francis King Carey School of Law. He is the vice president of the University of Maryland Honors Alumni Network. He also mentors first year law students at his alma mater and new bar admits through the Montgomery County Bar Association.
Michelle Daughtery Siri started her career as litigator and then left private MICHELLE practice for the Maryland attorney general’s office, where she learned that “true lawyering was not limited to the activities within the courtroom, but could also DAUGHTERY SIRI be found in the counseling of clients, and the proactive work of preventing a EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • THE WOMEN’S client from ever reaching litigation.” LAW CENTER OF MARYLAND Siri then took what she described as “a big leap of faith” and accepted the job of executive director at the Women’s Law Center of Maryland. What she values most about the job is the chance to advance the rights of women; she hopes to focus her efforts on closing the gender pay gap, protecting the rights of survivors of intimate partner abuse, making sure women have access to reproductive choices and making sure working families have the legal safeguards to raise and support their children. Siri serves on the board of Planned Parenthood of Maryland, the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law alumni board and the Greater Baltimore Panhellenic Alumni Association.
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Since 2012, Ebony Thompson has worked as a litigator. She is part of the team EBONY M. of attorneys that represented Exelon Corp. and Pepco Holdings Inc. in their recent THOMPSON merger, shepherding the companies through local and state requirements to create ASSOCIATE • VENABLE LLP the leading mid-Atlantic electric and gas utility. Thompson serves as a moot court judge at the University of Baltimore School of Law. She volunteers with the Alliance of Black Women Attorneys, the Maryland Food Bank, the New Psalmist Baptist Church and mentors students at Frederick Douglas High School. Thompson, who grew up in Baltimore, is proud of the fact that she has remained here. “Instead of fleeing with the opportunities my community afforded me, I choose to live, invest and build in my neighborhood to create better circumstances for those who follow me,” Thompson said. “I instill in the students that I mentor that your destiny is not determined by temporary moments in your history.” She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law
Thomas M. Weschler Jr. has practiced family law with Haspel & McLeod since 2009. Serving as attorney for children in disputed custody cases has been THOMAS M. at times difficult work, he admitted, but also worthwhile. “I understand how difficult custody disputes are and I try to make sure those WESCHLER JR. children are put in the best possible place in order for them to succeed in life,” PARTNER • HASPEL & MCLEOD PC he said. Weschler holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount St. Mary’s University and a law degree from Widener University School of Law. His volunteer work is varied: He coaches an ice hockey team and has worked with organizations such as Habitat for Humanity, BARCS, Our Daily Bread and Warrior Canine Connection, which helps military who are suffering from both mental and physical issues after returning from service. Weschler chairs the Young Lawyers Section of the Maryland State Bar Association and hopes to reach a great number of young lawyers across the state. “I have made it a focus of my year as chair of YLS to get more programs and events out to the western and southern parts of Maryland,” he said. TWEET IT #TDRAwards
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Evelyn Omega Cannon...... 2012 Marcia C. Fidis...... 2001 Stanley S. Herr...... 2001 Gary R. Alexander...... 2010 Anthony I. Butler...... 2014 M. Albert Figinski...... 2002 F. Michael Higginbotham...... 2011 Hon. Michael J. Algeo...... 2005 Hon. John Carroll Byrnes...... 2001 Jervis S. Finney...... 2003 Martin S. Himeles, Jr...... 2013 Roberto N. Allen...... 2004 Thomas Cardaro...... 2009 Morton P. Fisher, Jr...... 2004 Matthew G. Hjortsberg...... 2016 Andrew I. Alperstein...... 2015 Sen. Benjamin Cardin...... 2008 David H. Fishman...... 2005 Michael C. Hodes...... 2004 Angela Alsobrooks...... 2012 Paul V. Carlin...... 2007 Guy Flynn...... 2013 Hon. Marcella A. Holland...... 2011 *Robert Anbinder...... 2016 William Carr...... 2013 Mary Ellen Flynn...... 2008 Hon. Ellen Hollander...... 2008 Hon. Tiffany Anderson...... 2016 Shaun F. Carrick...... 2005 Nancy Forster...... 2005 Hon. C. Yvonne Holt-Stone...... 2009 Philip Andrews...... 2009 Hon. Audrey J.S. Carrion...... 2011 Emmanuelle Regine Francoi...... 2014 Todd J. Horn...... 2006 James Archibald...... 2005 Alan Cason...... 2013 Jason A. Frank...... 2009 Arthur Horne...... 2010 Sara H. Arthur...... 2015 Joseph Cassilly...... 2013 Stephanie Franklin...... 2006 Hon. Michele Hotten...... 2008 Alison L. Asti...... 2005 Mary Cina Chalawsky...... 2009 Jim Astrachan...... 2013 Kathleen A. Chapman...... 2002 Andrew D. Freeman...... 2006 Katherine Kelly Howard...... 2008 Michael Joseph Baader...... 2010 Caroline D. Ciraolo...... 2015 Alan R. Friedman...... 2001 Hon. Barbara Kerr Howe...... 2008 *Andy Baida...... 2014 Hon. Toni E. Clarke...... 2004 Dan Friedman...... 2009 Louis Hutt Jr...... 2008 Charles J. Balint...... 2002 Lauri Cleary...... 2009 Hon. Kathleen O’Ferrall Friedman...... 2014 Marian C. Hwang...... 2007 Hon. Vicki Ballou-Watts...... 2011 Hon. Ben C. Clyburn...... 2007 Brian E. Frosh...... 2010 Kelly Hughes Iverson...... 2016 Hon. Mary Ellen Barbera...... 2007 Robin R. Cockey...... 2004 Gerard Gaeng...... 2016 Cheryl Kelley Jacobs...... 2008 Richard M. Barnes...... 2015 *Ward Coe III...... 2009 *Herbert S. Garten...... 2006 Rick Jaklitsch...... 2015 Hon. Lynne A. Battaglia...... 2003 Adam S. Cohen...... 2003 *Hon. Susan Gauvey...... 2010 Ronald H. Jarashow...... 2011 Ivan J. Bates ...... 2016 Ann Cole...... 2009 Hon. Melanie Shaw Geter...... 2010 Deborah Jennings...... 2008 Michael Baxter...... 2013 Michael G. Comeau...... 2005 Allan J. Gibber...... 2014 Hon. Karen Murphy Jensen...... 2015 James R. Benjamin, Jr...... 2014 John J. Condliffe...... 2013 Larry S. Gibson...... 2004 Mark T. Jensen...... 2015 Paul D. Bekman...... 2007 J. Michael Conroy, Jr...... 2005 Edward J. Gilliss...... 2006 Deborah Jeon...... 2008 *Robert M. Bell...... 2001 James W. Constable...... 2014 Mike Goecke...... 2016 Hon. Patricia C. Jessamy...... 2001 Herbert J. Belgrad...... 2002 Karen Cook...... 2009 Herbert Goldman...... 2007 E. Scott Johnson...... 2013 Fred Bennett...... 2001 Hon. Charlotte M. Cooksey...... 2007 Sharon E. Goldsmith...... 2003 Harry S. Johnson...... 2003 Charles A. Berardesco...... 2010 Marnell A. Cooper...... 2016 Daniel Goldstein...... 2010 Lisa Harris Jones...... 2009 Hon. Stuart Berger...... 2006 Harriet E. Cooperman...... 2005 Louise Michaux Gonzales...... 2001 Veronica P. Jones...... 2014 Hon. Marielsa A. Bernard...... 2003 Hon. Kathleen G. Cox...... 2005 Eduardo González...... 2011 Wilhelm Joseph...... 2013 *Gregg L. Bernstein...... 2015 Stephen J. Cullen...... 2002 Alexander Gordon IV...... 2001 Elizabeth Lena Julian...... 2004 Charles Blomquist...... 2009 Thomas Cullen, Jr...... 2008 Hon. Joan Bossman Gordon...... 2006 Hon. James A. Kenney III...... 2003 Cynthia Boersma...... 2009 Isabel Mercedes Cumming...... 2014 J. Wyndal Gordon...... 2001 Hon. Robert B. Kershaw...... 2007 Robert R. Bowie, Jr...... 2010 Michael Daney...... 2006 Hon. Kathryn Grill Graeff...... 2016 N. Gordon Knox...... 2008 Denise M. Bowman...... 2015 Michael W. Davis...... 2010 *Andrew Jay Graham...... 2011 Judge Warren J. Krug...... 2001 Douglas M. Bregman...... 2007 Hon. Charles B. Day...... 2001 Robert L. Gray...... 2002 Patricia McHugh Lambert...... 2010 Anne Brennan...... 2008 Hon. John William Debelius...... 2004 Jill Green...... 2016 Julie Ellen Landau...... 2012 C. Christopher Brown...... 2006 Suzzanne W. Decker...... 2015 Bonnie Greenberg...... 2009 Jon Laria...... 2011 Hon. Pamila J. Brown...... 2005 Donald L. DeVries, Jr...... 2006 Lawrence Greenberg...... 2016 Hon. Theresa A. Lawler...... 2014 Francis B. Burch Jr...... 2001 David V. Diggs...... 2016 Aaron Greenfield...... 2011 Linda Thater Layton...... 2003 Meryl Burgin...... 2014 Dolores Dorsainvil...... 2013 John E. Griffith, Jr...... 2015 Anne Colt Leitess...... 2015
THE DAILY RECORD | THEDAILYRECORD.COM 45 Andrea Leahy-Fucheck...... 2010 William J. Murphy...... 2012 Mark S. Saudek...... 2015 Mark A. Tyler...... 2014 Hon. Diane O. Leasure...... 2004 John H. Murray...... 2002 Charles P. Scheeler...... 2006 Ralph S. Tyler...... 2004 Franklin Lee...... 2013 Sheela Murthy...... 2008 Lawrence E. Schmidt...... 2016 Louis J. Ulman...... 2001 Dorothy J. Lennig...... 2002 Larry A. Nathans...... 2002 Martin H. Schreiber II...... 2012 Donna E. Van Scoy...... 2015 Cynthia L. Leppert...... 2005 Hon. Doug Nazarian...... 2016 Debra G. Schubert...... 2014 Darrell VanDeusen...... 2010 Edward J. Levin...... 2007 Hon. C. Philip Nichols Jr...... 2003 Jeff Schwaber...... 2013 Steven VanGrack...... 2004 Richard E. Levine...... 2012 Christopher Nicholson...... 2011 Angela J. Scott...... 2015 Maureen van Stone...... 2012 Andrew D. Levy...... 2011 George Nilson...... 2008 Doris P. Scott...... 2001 Robert Waldman...... 2008 Hon. Patrice Lewis...... 2009 Rebecca A. Nitkin...... 2011 Mark F. Scurti...... 2006 Michele Bresnick Walsh...... 2016 Ava Lias-Booker...... 2011 James P. Nolan...... 2002 Master Cathy H. Serrette...... 2002 *Professor Byron Warnken...... 2008 Thomas Lingan...... 2011 Stephen J. Nolan...... 2006 Brenda A. Sexton...... 2002 Hon. Shirley M. Watts...... 2011 R. Robert Linowes...... 2002 Gary Norman...... 2013 Ronald Shapiro...... 2010 Thomas Waxter III...... 2009 Michelle N. Lipkowitz...... 2014 Anne Balcer Norton...... 2012 Lila Shapiro-Cyr...... 2015 Patricia Weaver...... 2011 Jerald B. Lurie...... 2006 Hon. Erik H. Nyce...... 2015 Hon. J. Frederick Sharer...... 2001 Thomas E. Lynch III...... 2003 Lee H. Ogburn...... 2015 James L. Shea...... 2002 Arnold M. Weiner...... 2011 James MacAlister...... 2013 Matt M. Paavola...... 2015 Donna Shearer...... 2010 Hon. Paul H. Weinstein...... 2002 Hon. Zakia Mahasa...... 2010 Marshall Paul...... 2011 Angela Shelton...... 2008 E. Gregory Wells...... 2013 Timothy F. Maloney...... 2004 Edward T. Paulis III...... 2014 Kevin Shepherd...... 2005 Pamela J. White...... 2001 Donna S. Mandl...... 2014 Hon. Steven I. Platt...... 2001 Jonathan H. Shoup...... 2015 Wayne Willoughby...... 2009 Raymond L. Marshall...... 2015 Bruce Plaxen...... 2013 Lawrence A. Shulman...... 2010 Benjamin F. Wilson...... 2012 Gerard Patrick Martin...... 2015 Joseph K. Pokempner...... 2005 Hon. Ronald A. Silkworth...... 2012 Margaret M. Witherup...... 2014 Jim Mathias...... 2014 Abba David Poliakoff...... 2015 Jane Frankel Sims...... 2016 Roger C. Wolf...... 2004 Robert J. Mathias...... 2004 Joanne Pollak...... 2011 Stuart Simms...... 2013 Hon. Patrick L. Woodward...... 2007 *Hon. Albert J. Matricciani, Jr...... 2004 Mark Pollak...... 2005 Michael Siri...... 2013 T. Sky Woodward...... 2008 Jeffrey C. Maynard...... 2007 Kathleen Pontone...... 2004 Hon. Carol E. Smith...... 2005 Martin E. Wolf...... 2014 John J. McCarthy...... 2014 Michael Powell...... 2009 Cyril Smith...... 2009 Linda S. Woolf...... 2006 J. Bradford McCullough...... 2010 Kimberley A. Propeack...... 2003 Edward Smith Jr...... 2012 Alexander Wright Jr...... 2003 William Alden McDaniel, Jr...... 2014 Jack Quinn...... 2008 James Smith Jr...... 2011 YLS Disaster Relief Committee ...... 2002 Rachel T. McGuckian...... 2006 Andrew Radding...... 2008 Jay Smith...... 2009 Becki Young...... 2016 Lynn McLain...... 2003 Hon. Irma S. Raker...... 2001 Paul T. Stein...... 2012 Lauren Young...... 2006 M. Natalie McSherry...... 2006 Paul J. Reinstein...... 2003 Shale D. Stiller...... 2003 Hon. David Young...... 2009 Thomas Meachum...... 2014 Russell R. Reno, Jr...... 2007 Howard L. Sollins...... 2012 William P. Young Jr...... 2002 Hon. Peter J. Messitte...... 2002 Christopher J. Reynolds...... 2002 Hon. Andrew L. Sonner...... 2002 Robert Zarbin...... 2011 A. Howard Metro...... 2010 Robert J. Rhudy...... 2002 Adam M. Spence...... 2016 Robert A. Zarnoch...... 2005 Hillary Michaud...... 2013 April N. Richardson...... 2010 Stephen L. Snyder...... 2003 Jay D. Miller...... 2016 J. Scott Robertson...... 2003 Hon. Richard H. Sothoron Jr...... 2003 JoAnne Zawitoski...... 2013 Hon. John Philip Miller...... 2008 Steven A. Robins...... 2012 Donna Hill Staton...... 2012 * Top Winner * Cleaveland D. Miller...... 2007 Dennis M. Robinson, Jr...... 2015 Tracy L. Steedman...... 2014 Mitchell Y. Mirviss...... 2004 Scott Rolle...... 2005 Hon. Lynn K. Stewart...... 2007 L i f e t i m e A c h i e v e m e n t A wa r d Hon. William D. Missouri...... 2002 Anne-Herbert Rollins...... 2013 Ferrier R. Stillman...... 2016 Hon. Sheila R. Tillerson Adams 2016 Hon. David B. Mitchell...... 2001 Barry F. Rosen...... 2004 Harry Storm...... 2013 Ronald A. Baradel...... 2016 Dana Petersen Moore...... 2004 Benjamin Rosenberg...... 2005 Charles Sydnor III...... 2012 Charles O. Monk, II...... 2005 Hon. Rod J. Rosenstein...... 2007 Gregory A. Szoka...... 2001 G e n e r at i o n J.D. A wa r d Paula Monopoli ...... 2009 Richard Rosenthal...... 2011 Sanford V. Teplitzky...... 2005 Tara A. Barnes...... 2016 Elise Davison Morris...... 2009 James F. Rosner...... 2004 Mark D. Thomas...... 2003 Jamar R. Brown...... 2016 Charles J. Morton, Jr...... 2007 Karen H. Rothenberg...... 2003 Craig A. Thompson...... 2005 Hon. John Alvin Henderson Jr. 2016 Hon. J. Frederick Motz...... 2007 David B. Rudow...... 2007 James L. Thompson...... 2006 J. Paul Mullen...... 2007 Hon. Nelson Rupp, Jr...... 2006 Kenneth L. Thompson...... 2007 Jordan J. Lysczek...... 2016 Hon. M. Brooke Murdock...... 2005 William Ryan, Jr...... 2008 *Paul A. Tiburzi...... 2005 Kathleen McLernan-Walz...... 2016 Hassan Murphy...... 2013 Nancy A. Sachitano...... 2007 Hope Tipton...... 2013 Benjamin Meredith...... 2016 Jane C. Murphy...... 2004 *Stephen H. Sachs...... 2002 Roger W. Titus...... 2001 Heather R. Pruger...... 2016 *Hon. Joseph F. Murphy Jr...... 2003 Paul Mark Sandler...... 2003 Donald B. Tobin...... 2015 Jeremy D. Rachlin...... 2016 Mary Murphy...... 2012 Hon. Richard Sandy...... 2012 Keith R. Truffer...... 2015 Michelle Daughtery Siri...... 2016 Patrick B. Murphy...... 2001 Suzanne Sangree...... 2014 Brian Tucker...... 2016 Ebony M. Thompson...... 2016 Thomas D. Murphy...... 2010 Jane Santoni...... 2013 Hon. William V. Tucker...... 2012 Thomas M. Weschler Jr...... 2016
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