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For over 40 years, Michael G. Hendler, has concentrated his practice in the area of family law and litigation.  From January, 1999 until July 1, 2012 he served as Managing Member of the Firm.  He is a past President of the Maryland Chapter, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a national organization whose mission is to preserve the best interests of the family and of society, improve the practice, elevate the standards, and advance the cause of Matrimonial Law and has served on its national Board of Directors. Mr. Hendler has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2001-2014.. Mr. Hendler has served as the past Chair of the Family and Juvenile Law Section Council of the Maryland State Bar Association. He has been a faculty member of the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers and has lectured to the Maryland State Bar Association on topics including Marital Property and Taxes. He has given presentations to accounting firms and other groups on expert witness testimony and business valuations.. Mr. Hendler is certified by The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers as an arbitrator and has completed the Harvard Negotiation Workshop.  He successfully completed the Maryland State Bar Association mediation training in compliance with the Maryland Rules of Procedure.. Mr. Hendler enjoys golf and spent over twenty-five years volunteering his time as a member of the National Ski Patrol System and is a past American Heart Association CPR Instructor. He is past President of Box 414 Association, Inc., a volunteer fire buff association.

Diana Hobbs is an attorney at Murphy, Falcon & Murphy, where she brings prior experience as both an lawyer and a registered nurse in Baltimore to the firm’s medical casework.. She concentrates her practice in complex civil litigation, representing plaintiffs in select catastrophic injury matters including medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, premises liability, and products liability.. Ms. Hobbs has successfully represented individuals nationwide who were killed or injured through the actions of defendants, including those of doctors, healthcare providers, hospitals, nursing homes, product manufacturers, and distributors. She has worked on numerous cases resulting in multi-million dollar awards.. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Hobbs was a nurse specializing in the areas of emergency medicine, labor and delivery, and intensive care. Shortly after that Ms. Hobbs switched directions and moved from direct patient care to medical management – specifically hospital risk management. While attending law school, and immediately after graduating, Ms. Hobbs held the position of Director of Risk Management and Legal Affairs for a local health care system. Most recently, Ms. Hobbs was the Director of Risk Prevention and Mitigation for a large Baltimore Health System.. Ms. Hobbs also has extensive experience working as an attorney representing plaintiffs in matters including medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, premises liability, and products liability.

David B. Applefeld is a member of the Firm with more than 18 years experience. Mr. Applefeld has litigated complex construction defect claims, insurance coverage claims, mechanics' lien actions, and architectural and engineering professional negligence claims in all levels of state and federal courts, before administrative agencies and before the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Applefeld serves as national panel trial counsel and special litigation counsel for several insurance companies and businesses. He is experienced in handling catastrophic personal injury claims, class action lawsuits, product liability matters, regulatory matters and other business litigation matters including contract disputes, business dissolutions, and conspiracy, fraud and RICO claims.

Christina “Chrissy” Bolmarcich is a partner in the firm’s litigation department. Chrissy’s practice focuses on employment. She advises and defends employers in all aspects of employment disputes involving FLSA wage and compensation, Title VII discrimination, ADEA, ADA, FMLA, wrongful discharge, and unemployment. She drafts employment handbooks and employment contracts including non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality, and severance agreements. Chrissy also provided employers with general employment advice related to discipline and terminations, paid time off policies, sick leave policies, reasonable accommodations, and workplace health and safety.. In 2016, Chrissy was selected by The Daily Record as one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women. In 2017, Chrissy received the Elizabeth P. Hoisington ’40 Distinguished Alumna Award from Notre Dame of Maryland University. This prestigious award is presented to a graduate who, through achievements in career and/or community service, embodies the principles of Notre Dame of Maryland University.. Chrissy has published several articles in the Maryland State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment newsletters and has presented seminars on a wide variety of employment topics including service and emotional support animals in the workplace, the intersection of the ADA, FMLA, and workers’ compensation laws, solutions for employment hiring practices for maritime employers, and harassment prevention in the workplace.. Chrissy is very active in the Baltimore community. Chrissy serves as an Associate Trustee to the Board of Trustees for Notre Dame of Maryland University. Additionally, she serves as a member of Notre Dame of Maryland University's Alumnae and Alumni Council, Advisory Board of School of Arts, Science, and Business, and Alumni Networking Committee. Chrissy also serves on the Board of Directors for Sail Baltimore and is the Chair of its Marketing and Communications Committee.. Prior to joining Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, Chrissy was a partner at another prominent Baltimore firm. At that firm, she was the first woman to serve as a department chair and the second female attorney to serve as a member of that firm’s management committee.

Cary Hansel, who was recently voted Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Maryland Association for Justice, is the founder of Hansel Law, PC ().  Cary has extensive trial and appellate experience, representing clients in civil rights, constitutional law and government liability cases.  His broad practice also encompasses medical malpractice, business and contract disputes, employment law, public regulation, insurance litigation, products liability, and administrative law. Cary obtained, and successfully defended on appeal, a verdict the Washington Post called “the largest made by a jury in a civil case involving abuse by Prince George's County police.”  The groundbreaking case established that citizens can hold municipalities liable for engaging in a “pattern and practice” of violating constitutional rights under the Maryland constitution.  This sea change in the law allows victims of government misconduct to introduce evidence of past wrongdoing in each new case, thus sharply raising the penalty for civil rights violators in Maryland. Cary has also achieved significant settlements and awards in the area of unlawful and unconstitutional employment practices and discrimination.  He has successfully represented numerous victims of illegal employment practices, including a young woman whose employer, a fast-food chain, refused to permit her to wear work-appropriate religious garb, a country-club waitress who was sexually assaulted by a club owner, and a high-level federal government lawyer who suffered severe harassment after her boss inadvertently discovered she was a lesbian. In a whistleblower case covered in such diverse outlets as the Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone, Cary represented a Securities and Exchange Commission investigator wrongly terminated after uncovering historic security breaches and ethical violations at the SEC.  Cary’s client came to him after having been barred from SEC facilities based on false allegations.  As Cary soon demonstrated, the allegations were made in an effort to discredit the SEC investigator after he exercised his duty to disclose the wrongdoing he discovered to Congress.  After less than six months of aggressive representation, including the filing of a lawsuit, the SEC was forced to drop all of its allegations, publicly clear the investigator’s record, reinstate him and pay him the third largest payment ever made to a federal whistleblower as a result of retaliation. In a First Amendment case, Cary successfully represented a long-time government employee fired for being a member of the wrong political party.  Cary’s work gave rise to legislative hearings and new laws protecting government employees from termination for their private political views.  He also succeeded in reversing his client’s termination and obtaining a significant award. In another First Amendment matter, Cary obtained the dismissal of a case in which the plaintiff sought to enmesh the court in changing the religious direction of a large church under the guise of challenging the election of its board of directors. In an animal cruelty case, Cary represented the Humane Society in obtaining the first court order ever issued in Maryland to stop the use of steel-jawed leg-hold traps.  These traps, which are banned in many countries as cruel and inhumane, were being used despite the widespread availability of cost-effective and humane alternatives. Cary’s appellate career includes the successful defense of over $30 Million in awards, the creation of a new cause of action in Maryland, and the expansion of citizens’ rights to recover just compensation from governmental wrongdoers and insurance companies. Cary has also filed amicus curiae briefs in the Maryland Court of Appeals on behalf of the Maryland Education Coalition, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters of Maryland, Maryland Association for Justice, and former chair of Maryland’s Commission on Education Finance, Equity and Excellence (the Thornton Commission). Cary is frequently invited to lecture on a variety of legal topics for organizations, including the National Business Institute, the Levin School of Law at the University of Florida, the Louis L. Goldstein Criminal Law Seminar, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, and Maryland and D.C. chapters of the American Civil Liberties Union. Cary provided invited legislative testimony to the Joint Judiciary Committee of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates in favor of the Equal Access to Justice Act, which was proposed in response to an opinion piece he had published in the Baltimore Sun.  He was also invited to testify before the Judiciary Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates during its consideration of legislation requiring the videotaping of police interrogations, which was proposed after one of his cases brought unlawful interrogation techniques to light. Cary offered testimony to the Maryland Commission on the Death Penalty warning of the problem of false confessions and the real potential for them to lead to the execution of innocent people.  The Commission quoted him in its final report, recommending abolition of the death penalty in Maryland, a recommendation adopted by the legislature shortly thereafter.Recorded Oral Arguments Potential clients are invited to watch one of Cary’s oral arguments. He is the second lawyer to appear in this video from a 2010 argument before the Maryland Court of Appeals: Cary is also the second lawyer to be heard in this audio from a 2013 argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit:Press Coverage Although some of his most successful cases are those in which he avoids media exposure, when a client hopes his or her case will help drive larger social change, Cary’s cases are frequently featured in the media. He has been quoted in more than 300 newspapers nationwide and has appeared on television numerous times.Reported Cases Cary’s reported cases include the following:Cole v. State Farm Mutual Ins. Co., 359 Md. 298; 753 A.2d 533 (2000) (changing Maryland law to make it easier to recover fair compensation from an insurance company)Wells, et al. v. Chevy Chase Bank, et al., 363 Md. 232; 768 A.2d 620 (2001) (amicus curiae)Compucel Corp. v. Comm. of Internal Revenue, 2002-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) P50, 284 (2002)Moore v. Norouzi, 371 Md. 154; 807 A.2d 632 (2002) (amicus curiae on behalf of Maryland Trial Lawyers Association; the Court of Appeals held that, “We agree with the Amicus Maryland Trial Lawyers Association,” and adopted the position, which opened a new avenue of recovery for civil rights violations.)LGB Group LLC v. John Booty, 2004 MDBT 1 (Cir. Ct. for Prince George's Co., 1/28/04) (one of the first trial court opinions reported under Maryland Rule 16-205)Maryland State Bd. of Educ. v. Bradford, 387 Md. 353; 875 A.2d 703 (2005) (amicus curiae)Kane v. Board of Appeals of Prince George’s County, 390 Md. 145; 887 A.2d 1060 (2005)Public Service Com’n of Maryland v. Wilson, 389 Md. 27; 882 A.2d 849 (2005)Prince George’s County v. Longtin, 190 Md. App. 97 (2010)Prince George’s County v. Longtin, 419 Md. 450 (2011) (establishing a new cause of action and protecting the largest verdict against the County in a police misconduct case)Jones v. State, 38 A.3d 333 (2012) (redefining the boundaries of the public duty doctrine to make it easier to recover fair compensation in cases of police misconduct)Brooks, et al. v. Jenkins, et ux., No. 1499, Sept. Term, 2012. (Decided: December 16, 2014) (affirming one of the highest verdicts in history for the intentional shooting of a dog)Rodriguez v. State, No. 0748, Sept. Term, 2012 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2014) (reinstating an award for over $18 Million at Mr. Hansel's request)

Carlos G. Stecco started his legal career many years ago focusing on the defense of hospitals, physicians, nurses and other health care providers in medical malpractice cases in Maryland and Washington, D.C.  Prior to becoming an attorney, he worked as a claims adjuster for various insurance companies for over 11 years handling medical malpractice, automobile liability, general liability, and public official and police professional cases.   Mr. Stecco's time as an insurance adjuster included working for several years for Maryland's largest medical malpractice insurance carrier.  He also served as a Claims Litigation attorney in the Legal Department at Johns Hopkins Hospital between 1999 – 2001, where he conducted risk management presentations and provided hospital-wide legal advice to health care providers, and coordinated the litigation of medical malpractice claims.   After many years' experience as both an insurance adjuster and a defense attorney on behalf of health care providers, Mr. Stecco's practice now focuses on the representation of individuals and their loved ones injured as a result of medical malpractice and other negligence.  Mr. Stecco's prior experience defending health care providers has provided him with valuable insight regarding the preparation and pursuit of medical malpractice cases.   Mr. Stecco obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration from Loyola College--Maryland in 1987, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1999. Mr. Stecco is licensed to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and after special motions, has also been admitted pro hac vice in Arizona, Florida, Illinois, New York and Texas.  He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.  In 2007, Governor Martin O'Malley appointed Mr. Stecco to the Judical Nominating Commission for Baltimore County.

Andrew Radding is a member in the Baltimore law firm of Adelberg, Rudow, Dorf & Hendler, LLC. Mr. Radding served as Assistant Counsel, U. S. House of Representatives, Select Committee on Crime (1969-1972) and Assistant U. S Attorney, Maryland (1972-1977). While serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for Maryland, he prosecuted complex conspiracy and related substantive charges in Federal Court. He focuses his practice on complex commercial, civil and business litigation, white collar criminal defense and representation of professionals in federal and state courts.. Mr. Radding's practice is varied and extensive. He participates in mostly extended, complex, document intensive cases and the representation of professionals. Among Mr. Radding's most notable cases are:. Mr. Radding is the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the U. S. Attorney's Alumni Society of Maryland (1979-present). He was the Chairman of the Bicentennial Celebration Committee of U. S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1988-1990). He served as a Member of the Judicial Selection Committee, U. S. District Court vacancy (1986); Admission Qualifications Committee, U. S. District Court (1986-1988) and was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the State Administrative Board of Elections (1995-1996); the Mayor of Baltimore appointed Mr. Radding to the Executive Board of the Domestic Violence Coordinating Council in 2001.. His extensive memberships in professional organizations include the Bar Association of Baltimore City (Secretary - 2008-present); (Judicial Selection Committee, Chairman 1996-1997, 2002-present); Executive Council; Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL) Member Board of Directors 1987 -1992; Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland (Member: Inquiry and Peer Review Panels); Faculty Member for the Professionalism Course required of all new Admittees to Maryland Bar. Mr. Radding was elected to the Maryland State Bar Association Board of Governors for 2005 - 2007. He is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association's Committee on Continuing Legal Education and is Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association Program Committee. Mr. Radding was the moderator of a panel of judges and lawyers at the 2007 Maryland State Bar Association annual meeting on a discussion of E-discovery.. Some of Mr. Radding's additional reported and unreported appellate cases include:. Andrew Radding is a participant in the legal video series produced by The Legal Television Network. To view the videos follow the link: The Legal Television Network

Allison Caplis provides strategic yet practical counseling to clients from the moment they receive a subpoena or complaint through to final resolution. Allison has vast experience representing clients in large-scale government and internal investigations and related civil lawsuits.. Her skills include handling complicated e-discovery issues, such as finding manageable ways to preserve and respond to burdensome document and data requests, and synthesizing vast amounts of information and data into coherent arguments before federal and state prosecutors, judges, and mediators. Allison's deep understanding of the health care industry in particular enables her to respond quickly, efficiently, and effectively to fast-moving high-stakes investigations.. Allison regularly counsels health care clients in connection with fraud and false statement matters, related criminal and civil False Claims Act matters, and complex civil litigation involving allegations of health care fraud. Allison also handles responses to FTC investigations regarding antitrust, consumer protection and data security matters, responses to cybersecurity incidents, matters involving allegations of fraud in connection with universities, and complex civil litigation generally. In addition, she provides counsel to clients in all industries regarding e-discovery issues such as document preservation policies and practices.

Al Elia joined Brown Goldstein & Levy as a Disability Rights Fellow in September 2015. His practice focuses on disability rights and other civil litigation.. Prior to joining the firm, Al clerked as an intern for the Honorable Timothy S. Hillman on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, where he researched and wrote bench memoranda, proposed opinions, and orders.. During law school, Al served as a legal intern at the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General, Civil Rights Division; the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Civil Division; and the National Federation of the Blind. He also served as a legal intern for the Centre for Disability Law and Policy in Galway, Ireland, where he assisted an international disability rights advocacy group in comparing the development of technology access law in the U.S. and E.U. At Harvard University, Al assisted the Director of Intellectual Property at Harvard Business School Publishing in teaching a course on intellectual property and lectured on areas of developing intellectual property law.. Prior to law school, Al worked as an information technology product development director and consultant for a medical research company and for a company that consulted with the health care sector.  Al also served as a senior technical consultant to KPMG in The Hague, Netherlands.

A civil rights law firm with offices located in Baltimore and Montgomery County, Maryland, representing clients throughout the state of Maryland.  We provided legal services and advice in the areas of special education law, suspension and expulsion hearings, juvenile justice, criminal defense, and civil and disability rights.   Our education law practice includes special education (IDEA), section 504 plans, suspension and expulsion issues, and post secondary education issues such as obtaining needed accommodations.  We also represent clients with respect to juvenile law, civil and disability rights issues and criminal defense matters.