Admitted
1976, Maryland; 1977, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1983, District of Columbia and U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
Law School
Columbia University, J.D., 1976
Law School Graduation Year
1976
College
University of Durham, England; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1973
Memberships
The District of Columbia Bar; Anne Arundel County, Maryland State (Member, Litigation Section; Co-Chair, Products Liability Committee, 1990-1994) and American Bar Associations; Defense Research Institute (Member, 1980—; Product Liability Committee; Industrywide Litigation Committee; Exceptional Performance Citation, 1987); Maryland Defense Counsel (President, 1986-1987; Editor, The Defense Line, 1983; Chairman: Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, 1992-1994; Products Liability Committee, 1989-1991; Member, Judicial Selections Committee, 1991-1992); Products Liability Advisory Council, Inc. (Sustaining Member; Member, Executive Committee, 1997-2000; Co-Chair, Rules of Civil Procedure Action Group, 1991-1998); The Bar Association of Baltimore City (Member, Executive Council, 1984-1987; Chairman: Product Liability Committee, 1987-1988; Standing Committee on Long Range Planning, 1986-1987; Standing Committee on Public Relations, 1984-1986; Member, Special Committee on Tort Reform, 1987; Chairman, Special Committee on Video, 1983; Member, Standing Committee on Legislation, 1982-1987).
Biographical
Publications: Author: Maryland Civil Procedure Forms—Practice, 2 Vols., Lexis Law Publishing (3rd edition 2000, supplemented annually); A Comparison of the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability and the Maryland Law of Products Liability, 30 University of Baltimore Law Review 273, 2001; Old Products—The Admissibility of State of the Art Evidence in Product Liability Actions, 9 Journal of Products Liability 233, 1986; Caps in the Hat: Legislative Lids on Runaway Verdicts, For the Defense, July 1986. Co-Author: Caps in the Hat Come Back: Revisiting Legislative Lids on Runaway Verdicts, For the Defense (September 1993); Comparative Fault in Maryland: The Time Has Come, 41 University of Maryland Law Review 275, 1982. Appointments: Member, Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1994—. President, Foundation for the University of Durham, Inc., 1992—.