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G. Scott Barhight
Partner
Towson Commons, Suite 300
One West Pennsylvania Avenue
Towson, MD 21204-5025
Phone: 410.832.2050
Fax: 410.223.4057
gbarhight@wtplaw.com
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Experience

  • Selected by peers in The Best Lawyers in America, 2006 - present
  • Representation of numerous developers/ builders in land use issues before zoning commissioners, appeal boards, circuit courts, appellate courts
  • Representative clients include research parks, national retailers, telecommunication companies, regional utilities, national homebuilders, national business park developers, non-profit institutions
  • Successful representation of a variety of developers in PUD approvals in Baltimore County, including major residential, retail and vertically integrated mixed use projects
  • Successful representation of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, UMBC Technology Center in a development approval case, appealed through the Court of Special Appeals
  • Representation of "big box" retailer in its zoning and development issues in the Maryland region
  • Representation of New York Stock Exchange telecommunications companies in the development of their network for the Maryland region
  • Representation of a regional utility company in its zoning and development issues in the Maryland region
  • Representation of numerous developers/ builders in zoning approvals for major and minor subdivisions
  • Representation of a Fortune 500 oil company in the development/redevelopment of its fuel service stations in the Maryland region

General Information

  • AV Peer Review Rated: Martindale-Hubbell
  • Management Committee, WTP - 2000-2006
  • Managing Partner, Towson Office, WTP - 1999-2000; 2008 through present
  • Bradford Bank - Board of Directors - 2003-2009; Audit Committee
  • Franklin Square Hospital- Board of Directors - 2002 through 2012; Chair: 2008 through 2012
  • Franklin Square Hospital Foundation - Board of Directors' Chair, 2004-2008, 2011-2012
  • Medstar Strategic Planning Committee, 2008 through 2011
  • Medstar Philanthropy Committee - 2004-2008
  • Loyola Blakefield Board of Trustees - 2006 through 2012; Chair: Governance/Nominating Committee, 2007 through 2012
  • Wyman Park Federal Savings Bank - Member, Board of Directors - 1998 through 2003; Strategic Planning Committee
  • National Association of Industrial and Office Parks, Baltimore Chapter Board of Directors - 2002-2008
  • HBAM PAC Board of Directors, Chair, 2005-2007
  • HBAM Board of Directors, 2011 to present
  • Past Member of the Board of Directors and prior Legal Counsel to the Baltimore County Chamber of Commerce
  • Member of the Homebuilders Association of Maryland, Baltimore County; Past Board member, Baltimore County Chapter
  • Past Member of the Board of Directors, Leadership - Baltimore County
  • Listed in The Best of the U.S., 2008-present
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2006-present

Education

  • Western Maryland College (B.A. 1978) cum laude
  • Washington and Lee University School of Law (J.D. 1981)