Admitted
1972, Maryland and District of Columbia
Law School
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1971
Law School Graduation Year
1971
College
Hobart College, B.A., cum laude, 1967
Memberships
Bar Association of Baltimore City (Member, Executive Council, 1983-1985; Chairman, Legislation Committee of Baltimore City Bar Assn., 1983-1985); Maryland State Bar Association, Inc. (Chairman: Litigation Section, 1979; Council Member, 1981; Member: Board of Governors, 1985); American (Litigation Section; Chair of following committees: Appellate Practice, 1979-1982; Co-Chair, 1988; Pro Bono and Public Interest Litigation Committee, 1982-1986; Co-Chairman: Federal Procedure Committee, 1986-1987; Legislation Committee on State Legislation, 1989-1991; Chairman: Litigation Section's Trial by Jury Task Force, 1991-1994; Co-Chair, Membership Committee, 1994-1996; Council Member, Litigation Section, 1994-1997); Co-Chair, Institute for Trial Practice, 1997—) and Federal Bar Associations; Maryland Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Baltimore City Criminal Defense Attorneys.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa. Member, National Moot Court Team, 1970-1971. Editor: The Maryland Appellate Practice Handbook, MICPEL, 1977; National Institute Appellate Advocacy Source Book, American Bar Association, 1980; Author: Pattern Examinations of Witnesses for the Maryland Lawyer, MICPEL, 1979, (3rd Ed. 1997); Pleading Causes of Action in Maryland, MICPEL, 1991; 2nd Edition, 1998. Co Author: The Winning Argument, ABA Section of Litigation, 2001; Model Witness Examinations (ABA Section of Litigation, 1997); Editor: Appellate Practice for the Maryland Lawyers: State and Federal, MICPEL, 1994, Second Edition, 2001; Teaching Appellate Practice, Trial Diplomacy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1983; Appellate Judicial Notice: Oasis or Mirage? Litigation Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1978; Winning a Summary Judgment, Litigation Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 3, May 1984; Co-Author: Ethos & The Art of Argument Litigation Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 1, Fall, 1999; Lecturer in Appellate Practice, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1973-1983; Board of Editors, Trial Diplomacy Journal, 1983; Special Outside Counsel and Assistant City Solicitor for Baltimore City Board of Ethics inquiry, 1994. Member: Governor's Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1975-1978; Baltimore County Community Colleges Board of Trustees, 1977-1979; U.S. District Court of Maryland Speedy Trial Planning Group, 1981; U.S. District Court of Maryland Committee on Admissions of Attorneys to Federal Practice, 1983-1984; Baltimore County Department of Social Services Board of Trustees, 1982-1984; Board of Directors: Easter Seal Society of Maryland, 1987-1991; Chairman: Trial by Jury: The Lawyer's Craft program, Maryland State Fair, 1988; Chairman: Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation $10,000,000 Campaign Fund; Member Foundation Board, Saint Joseph Hospital, 1990-1999; Member, Maryland Public Television Foundation Board, 1998—.