Lawyers

Experience

Business Litigation

• Successfully represented retail electricity supplier in arbitration proceeding against industrial customer in dispute over commercial electricity supply agreement
• Successfully represented employers in enforcing non-competition agreements with former employees
• Defended and obtained seven figure settlement in favor of Howard County, Maryland in lawsuit involving claims of environmental contamination
• Represented property owners in condemnation actions
• Represented Trustee of Creditors' Trust created in bankruptcy case involving liquidation of multi-state healthcare provider in litigation arising out of Medicare fraud and accounting malpractice
• Represented nationally renowned healthcare system in mediation involving medical equipment leasing
• Represented plaintiff in claim for specific performance of a commercial real estate contract
• Represented and received summary judgment in action by seller against the purchaser of a pet supply company
• Represented relators in successful action under the False Claims Act
• Successfully represented defendant in claim for libel

Electronically Stored Information (ESI)

• Advises technology and non-technology clients regarding records management policies

Cyber Security and Information Privacy

• Advises technology and non-technology clients regarding records management policies

Intellectual Property & Technology

• Advise IT companies, negotiate and draft licensing and distribution agreements
• Draft and negotiate licensing agreements

Intellectual Property Litigation

• Represented software company in the recovery of royalties and intellectual property from global manufacturer of enterprise technology products
• Represented mobile office and storage leasing company in patent infringement matter
• Successfully represented client in enjoining termination of software licensing agreement
• Successfully represented client in royalty dispute
• Successfully represented Litigation Trust in liquidation of air logistics company (Air Cargo, Inc.) in prosecuting litigation against logistics software vendor

Accountant and Auditing Malpractice

• Served as Special Counsel to Chapter 7 trustee in liquidation of Just for Feet, Inc. (the second largest national shoe and sporting apparel retailer) and successfully litigated against its former officers, directors, and independent accounting and auditing firm
• Represented plaintiff corporation and obtained favorable settlement in auditing malpractice claim against corporation's accounting/auditing firm

Professional Liability

• Defended legal malpractice action against Baltimore law firm arising out of estate and tax planning
• Represented corporate plaintiff in a legal malpractice claim arising out of antitrust counseling and advice
• Defended, and won by summary judgment, a lawsuit for legal malpractice arising out of attorney's representation of client in litigation
• Successfully represented environmental consulting firm against professional malpractice claim in connection with issuance of Phase I environmental assessment

Appellate Practice

• Diverse appellate experience in both state and federal courts

Nonprofit Organizations and Associations

• Advise nonprofit clients regarding records management policies

Bankruptcy Litigation

• Counsel to Creditors' Trustee and Plan Administrator in Liquidation of Health Essentials Solutions, Inc. and its affiliates (a national healthcare provider) in preference litigation and litigation involving accountant malpractice and director and officer liability
• Successfully represented Litigation Trust in liquidation of air logistics company (Air Cargo, Inc.) in prosecuting litigation against logistics software vendor

General Information

Awards

• Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers, 2012
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2010 - present
• AV Peer Review Rated: Martindale-Hubbell
• Recipient:  Distinguished Service Award, Maryland State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, 1993

Professional Experience

• Certified Public Accountant
• Sedona Conference, Member of Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1)
• Law Clerk to the Honorable William H. Adkins, II, Court of Appeals of Maryland (1988 - 1989)
• Member: Maryland Association of Certified Public Accountants
• Member: Maryland State Bar Association; Former Chair of MSBA Planning Committee
• Member: District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member: Bar Association of Baltimore City
• Member: Bar Association of Baltimore City Judicial Selections Committee
• Former Board of Governors Member: Maryland State Bar Association
• Former Member: Maryland State Bar Association Planning and Technology Committees
• Former Member: Bar Association of Baltimore City Judicial Administration Committee (1999-2006)
• Former Adjunct Professor: University of Baltimore School of Law

Civic Activities & Public Service

• Member: Johns Hopkins University Homewood Technology Commercialization Advisory Board
• Founding Board Member: Small Biotechnology Business Coalition
• Member: Greater Baltimore Committee's Innovation and Technology Committee
• Board Member: My Sister's Circle
• Board Member: Civic Works
• Graduate: Greater Baltimore Committee, the LEADERship, 2009
• Graduate: Leadership Baltimore County, 2006
• Member: Baltimore Jewish Council Board of Directors
• Former Chair: Baltimore Jewish Council Metropolitan Issues Commission
• Board Member and Treasurer: Society for the Preservation of Federal Hill and Fells Point
• Committee Member: The Associated: Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore
• Volunteer: Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service
• Volunteer: Public Justice Center

Publications / Presentations

• Panelist: Model Orders, Default Standards, and Pilot Projects, The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 Mid-Year Meeting, April 27, 2012
• Presenter: Practical Lessons Learned: An Overview of Cybersecurity Law & Information Governance, Association of Corporate Counsel (Baltimore Chapter), January 24, 2012
• Presenter: Nuts & Bolts of E-Discovery, Maryland State Bar Association Annual Meeting, June 10, 2011
• Presenter: Records Management - What Non-Profits Need to Know, Progressive Business Conferences Webinar, April 15, 2010
• Presenter: Records Management for Lawyers, Maryland State Bar Association Annual Meeting, June 11, 2009
• Author:  Chances as Protected Interests: Recovery for the Loss of a Chance and Increased Risk, University of Baltimore Law Review, 1987

Education

• University of Maryland (B.S. 1984)
• University of Baltimore School of Law (J.D. 1988) cum laude
  
  • Managing Editor, University of Baltimore Law Review
  • Tax Moot Court Team