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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.

Drew LaFramboise is an experienced litigator located in the Washington, DC area.  Mr. LaFramboise has a proven track record of providing excellent services to clients and a record of success in litigating complex personal injury cases across the nation.  Mr. LaFramboise is an associate at Ashcraft & Gerel, LLP, a law firm with decades of experience in handling catastropic injury and wrongful death claims, products liability cases, medical malpractice and nursing home litigation, and workers' compensation.

Katrine H. Bakhtiary was raised in Waldorf, Charles County, Maryland. She received her Bachelor of Arts the University of Maryland, College Park and went on to attend and receive her Juris Doctorate from the University of Baltimore School of Law. While in law school, Ms. Bakhtiary participated in the Innocence Project Clinic and served as a Recent Developments Editor for the University of Baltimore School of Law’s legal journal, Law Forum. She then went on to serve as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Amy J. Bragunier, Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court for Charles County, Maryland.. In September 2011, she joined the Charles County State's Attorney's Office as an Assistant State’s Attorney. She remained a prosecutor for the next seven years, serving the community where she grew up. During her time as an Assistant State’s Attorney, Ms. Bakhtiary gained invaluable experience as a trial attorney. She primarily focused on victim-related crimes including burglaries, domestic assaults, rapes, and sexual offenses and was in the courtroom on a daily basis advocating for victims in motions hearings, bench trials, and jury trials.. She then worked for a small private practice in Waldorf, working on litigation of personal injury cases in Maryland.  Ms. Bakhtiary joined the Law Office of Thomas E. Pyles, P.A. in January 2024, where she focuses on family law and personal injury.

Jeffrey M. Groce is an accomplished trial attorney with more than 25 years of experience and a strong background in personal injury and insurance defense specializing in representing victims of automobile crashes and the defense of auto accident cases. Mr. Groce has handled complex litigation consistently providing superior customer service and unmatched professionalism. It is this level of professionalism and a congenial manner while fiercely advocating on behalf of his clients that has allowed Mr. Groce to garner the high respect of judges, litigators on both sides the personal injury litigation, insurance companies and medical experts.

Upon graduating from the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1999, Scott Lucas immediately began litigating cases upon becoming a lawyer, first as a member of the defense bar where his practice centered around insurance defense litigation. It was there that he became intimately familiar with the processes involved in the evaluation and handling of personal injury claims from the perspective of insurance carriers. In 2004 Scott took the knowledge and experience he had gained with him when he switched to exclusively representing plaintiffs in personal injury claims.. Scott is admitted to the Maryland Bar (1999), the District of Columbia Bar (2002) and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2001). He is a member of the Maryland Association of Justice and the District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Association. Scotts legal practice is concentrated in the areas of personal injury, catastrophic injury and wrongful death.

I am an academic Honors graduate of Princeton University and have handled matters of complex trial litigation for over 33 years including the tobacco litigation that resulted in a 4.2 Billion dollar award for the state of Maryland.