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Susan Zuhowski is a member of the Firm’s Commercial Transactions and Litigation Practice Group, in which she assists clients with the resolution of business disputes, both in and out of the courtroom.  She appears before state and federal trial and appellate courts, advocating for her clients at hearings and trials on matters including title defense, banking, real property, contract and general liability matters.. In addition to litigation, Ms. Zuhowski also uses her broad experience to assist clients in matters relating to real property and government relations.  She is a registered lobbyist experienced with the Maryland General Assembly and recently drafted a bill making significant revisions to the provisions of the Maryland Mobile Home Parks Act.  Throughout her career, Ms. Zuhowski has used her superior analytic skills to achieve results for her clients.  For example, in one of her cases, Ms Zuhowski determined how to avoid a covenant prohibiting mining on a large parcel of property, which resulted in the state’s purchase the property from her client for several million dollars more than anticipated.  She has also acted as Maryland counsel in an eight state portfolio purchase of nineteen properties, three of which were in Maryland.. Ms. Zuhowski is an experienced public speaker and has recently given presentations to the Maryland Land Title Association on the provisions of the Maryland Protection of Homeowners in Foreclosure Act, and to the Hospice and Palliative Care Network regarding Advanced Directives and end of life issues.  She welcomes the opportunity to speak before organizations looking to help educate their members on various aspects of the law.. Ms. Zuhowski is a member of the Maryland State, Maryland Women’s, Prince George’s County and Anne Arundel County Bar Associations.  She was recently appointed chair of the Anne Arundel County Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Committee and she is a past President of the Anne Arundel County Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association, where she also served as Secretary and as Vice President.  Ms. Zuhowski is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Volunteer Center for Anne Arundel County and a member of the Board of Directors of the Anne Arundel County Community College Foundation, Inc. From 1994 through the end of the 2000-2001 school year, she served as a Mock Trial Program Coach at Archbishop Spalding High School through the Maryland State Bar Association Citizenship Law Related Education Program. She currently teaches Advanced Legal Research and Writing in the Legal Studies Institute at Anne Arundel Community College.   Ms. Zuhowski is admitted to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia as well as the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Sally Presler McCash draws on over thirty years of practice experience to serve her clients, which include real estate developers, banking and lending institutions, title insurance underwriters, investors and business owners.  Ms. McCash is experienced in all stages of the real estate transaction process.  She is highly skilled in the negotiation and drafting of sales contracts, leases and financing documents, and has a wealth of experience with guiding clients through the myriad due diligence requirements involved in complex real estate closings.  Ms. McCash also has an extensive background in land title analysis, remediation of title defects, and the prosecution as well as the defense of title insurance claims.  In addition, Ms. McCash’s practice includes complex estate planning and estate administration.  She works closely with clients to realize their financial and estate planning goals, and is well versed in the various planning vehicles available to achieve tax savings, wealth preservation and charitable giving.  Ms. McCash also has many years of experience in matters of estate and trust administration, including will contests, and practices regularly before the Registers of Wills for various counties in Maryland and the District of Columbia.. As the Practice Group Leader of the Real Estate and Banking Practice Group, Ms. McCash supervises a team of seven other attorneys to effectively serve the broad range of needs of the Firm’s real estate clients.  She also serves as a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.  In nearly twenty-five years of service to the Firm, Ms. McCash has come to be known as a trusted resource on all matters relating to real property law.. Ms. McCash utilizes the breadth of her experience to be both a successful practitioner and an informed educator.  From 1984 until 2005, she served as an adjunct professor teaching Land Transactions and Finance at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law.  Between 1992 and 1998, Ms. McCash also taught a course with the Catonsville Community College entitled Principles of the Title Industry Practice.  In addition, she has been a regular lecturer with the Maryland Land Title Association since 1991, speaking frequently on a wide spectrum of topics related to real estate transactions and title insurance requirements.. Ms. McCash is recognized as a leader throughout Maryland in land title and real estate matters.  She is a former President of the Maryland Land Title Association (MLTA), in which she has also served as Chairman of the Education Committee and continues to serve on the Board of Directors.  In addition, she has received accreditation from the MLTA as a Certified Land Title Professional.  Ms. McCash is also a member of the American Land Title Association (ALTA), the District of Columbia Land Title Association, and the Virginia Land Title Association.  She is actively involved in the Maryland State Bar Association as well as the Prince George’s County Bar Association, on which she has served as a past Chairman of the Real Estate Committee.  Ms. McCash is admitted to practice in Maryland, in the District of Columbia, before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Murray is a partner at Hartel, DeSantis & Howie, LLP. Her prior experience in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland, private law practices in Baltimore City, Anne Arundel County and Baltimore County has given her a broad understanding of all aspects of litigation.  Ms. Murray has successfully handled a variety of civil litigation cases, including: slip and fall, premises liability, products liability, asbestos, lead paint, construction, intentional torts and automobile negligence.

I'm an advocate and educator who uses values-based estate planning strategies to empower individuals and families to create, protect, and transfer wealth. I build strategic partnerships with other wealth professionals (advisors in the financial, real estate, charitable giving, and business development sectors) to increase wealth capacity for a wide range of clients: individuals both young and young at heart, small and large families, exceptional and blended families, entrepreneurs, and multi-member owned organizations. I enable businesses to more deeply connect and invest in their communities by establishing, protecting, and crafting succession plans for their entities. I also guide families through the complex and draining process of probate administration and litigation.. I am a workshop facilitator, guest lecturer, keynote speaker, and published writer on various topics within estate planning, multigenerational wealth, millennial wealth building, and leadership. I have been featured in the Maryland Bar Journal, and at the Association of Black Estate Planning Professionals' Creating a Legacy Conference, the Worcester Women's Leadership Conference, and have appeared on local news and the Gettin' Grown podcast.. I serve as an Adjunct Professor of Law in the Academic Success Program at the University of the District of Columbia's David A. Clarke School of Law (an HBCU), and teach Civic Action/Mock Trial to middle and high school students at the Cheverly STEM Education Center.. I am a board member and the legal counsel for the Young, Black & Giving Back Institute; board member of the Prince George’s County Women’s Bar Association where I help to provide programming to the Thomas J. Waxter’s Juvenile Detention Facility; and Steward Board member at Kingdom Fellowship AME Church. I also co-host the Mary & Martha Podcast, where I encourage women to live empowered and impactful lives of faith.. I am an enthusiastic laugher and hiker (weather permitting). Feel free to connect!

I am an experience attorney in both federal and state (MD, DC and PA) matters, as well as a court-approved mediator and collaborative attorney. My experience includes being the only Certified Mine Safety Professional (CMSP) in the United States. Before becoming an attorney, I had 15 years experience with trade associations, working with Congress and the regulatory agencies. Our firm still provides public policy/lobbying support for selected associations and organizations.. I also worked for 14 years as a disk jockey on WHFS-FM, where I hosted a radio show and engineered a variety of foreign language programs.. I have one husband, three stepchildren, one grandchild, and three dogs.

Hana Rose Kondratyuk is a member of the Firm’s RealEstate and Banking Practice Group, where she concentrates her practice on communityassociation law including the legal counseling of condominium and homeowners associations, commercialand residential real estate transactions, and all aspects of estate planning and administration.. Prior tojoining O’Malley, Miles, Nylen & Gilmore, P.A., Mrs. Kondratyuk had theunique distinction of clerking for Mr. Michael Mannes, who is regarded as oneof the foremost authorities on homeowner association and condominium law.  In that position, Mrs. Kondratyuk gainedexperience enforcing covenants, examining and interpreting various associationcreation documents, drafting declarations, bylaws, amendments, and rules, aswell as in collecting assessments and preparing foreclosure actions.  As an attorney, Mrs. Kondratyuk has assistedher community association clients by examiningtheir condominium and homeowners association documents, implementing andoverseeing association assessment collection, securing liens for unpaidassessments, and guiding her clients through the complex foreclosure process.. has recently been awarded membership to the Heuisler Honor Societyafter graduating magna cum laude fromthe University of Baltimore School of Law with a concentration in RealEstate.  While in law school, served as the Articles Editor on the School of Law’sJournal of Environmental Law and, in2007, the Journal of Environmental Law publishedher article entitled Potomac Riverkeeper Inc. v. Nat’l CapitalSkeet & Trap Club, Inc.  received numerous awards in law school, including the Highest Gradesin Maryland Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Commercial Law, and Sales andLeases.  Mrs. Kondratyuk received her B.A., suma cum laude, from Towson University.. Mrs. Kondratyuk is a member of theJewish National Foundation and is active in the Maryland State Bar Associationwhere she is a member of the Young Lawyers Section.  Mrs. Kondratyuk is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the United States District Court of Maryland.

Dionne is admitted to practice in the Court of Appeals of Maryland. She is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Alliance for Black Women Attorneys of Maryland, Inc.. Before joining The Griffin Firm, PLLC, Dionne served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Sylvester B. Cox, Jr. at the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. She also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Michael W. Reed at the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.. Dionne received her Juris Doctor from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she was a student attorney in the Civil Advocacy Clinic. She represented individuals in actions against the Social Security Administration and counseled clients seeking record expungements of prior convictions.. Dionne was also one of eight students’ hand-selected for the Fannie Angelos Scholar Program, which recruits talented students from HBCUs to attend UB Law.. Merging her passion for the law and her faith, Dionne served as an extern at Christian Legal Aid of the District of Columbia. There, she assisted clients in family law cases, constructed and co-taught legal presentations to residents at DC’s Central Union Men’s Mission and Family Ministry Center.. Dionne received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Clark Atlanta University. While in college, Dionne became a member of Spelman College’s Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity, Inc.. In addition to practicing law, Dionne takes every opportunity to offer personal, professional, and spiritual mentorship in her community. She currently serves as the Dance Ministry Leader at Christian Life Center in Belcamp, Maryland. She also leads Christian Life Center’s Singles Women’s Ministry. Moreover, she mentors young legal professionals in her law school’s Black Law Students Association and the Fannie Angelos Scholar Program. In her spare time, she also serves as a biblical teacher to her colleagues.

Attorney Tiffany Veney is an associate with The Griffin Firm. A born and bred Maryland native, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Towson University and her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Baltimore in Maryland.. Before joining the Griffin Firm, Tiffany had the opportunity to work in the Baltimore US Attorney’s office in both the criminal and civil divisions.. Her compassion for those less fortunate than herself directed her to volunteer with the Homeless Persons Representation Project that supported the expungement of criminal records for those persons re-entering society.