Litigation lawyers in Maryland

Susan Zuhowski

Firm: O'Malley, Miles, Nylen & Gilmore, P.A.

11785 Beltsville Drive 10th Floor , Calverton , Maryland 20705 Zip code: 20705

Practice Areas: Litigation

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.

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Terri Goldberg

1047 Riverside Ave , Baltimore , Maryland 21230 Zip code: 21230

Practice Areas: Litigation

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Thomas Bernier

Firm: Goldberg Segalla

1 N Charles St Ste 2500 , Baltimore , Maryland 21201 Zip code: 21201

Practice Areas: Litigation

Thomas Bernier is chair of the Nanotechnology Practice Group — a subgroup of the Toxic Torts and Environmental Practice Group. He has more than three decades of experience successfully defending complex and high-profile civil and criminal cases in the state and federal courts throughout Maryland and Washington, D.C., and in other parts of the country.. He focuses his civil practice on the defense of toxic tort actions against companies in a wide range of industries, with particular concentration on claims alleging exposure to Legionella, asbestos, lead paint, carbon monoxide, and mold. Tom also has extensive experience defending personal injury, premises liability, and product liability. He is a frequent author and presenter on personal injury defense and other topics in his areas of concentration, with two seminars he developed being honored by the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL) as “Best of MICPEL” seminars.. Further demonstrating his trial prowess and litigation capabilities, Tom has litigated hundreds of serious criminal cases over the past 30-plus years, including two capital cases. He is the author of Defending Allegations of Sexual Child Abuse in Maryland, an original treatise published in 2004 that highlights a subspecialty of his criminal practice and is used by the District Court of Maryland in the training of District Court Commissioners. Tom has been asked to testify before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees of the Maryland General Assembly on matters of criminal law and evidence, and he has counseled the writing staff of NBC’s Law and Order: Special Victims Unit on the perspective of a defense attorney in a sex crimes case and on technical accuracy of potential script ideas.. Highlights of his practice include:Served as a member of defense trial team that secured a directed verdict predicated on the plaintiff’s assumption of risk for a manufacturer of sealing products in a wrongful death asbestos-related case. This significant victory followed nine days of trial in the Circuit Court of Maryland for Baltimore City.Obtained summary judgment in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of a building owner who faced a lawsuit brought by a plaintiff claiming millions of dollars in personal injury damages as a result of contracting Legionnaire’s disease. The victory centered on the successful exclusion of the plaintiff’s expert witness, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the Superior Court’s decision.Obtained a defense verdict after more than two years of litigation — culminating in an 11-day jury trial — in a case involving medical, scientific, and real estate issues relating to environmental contamination. Damages sought were more than $3 million.Successfully argued for compulsory nonsuit, following two weeks of trial, in favor of a manufacturer of asbestos-containing gaskets in a product liability wrongful death lawsuit alleging asbestos-induced mesothelioma, tried in the Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County.Working pro bono on the ABA “Death Penalty Project," obtained life-without-parole verdict in death penalty resentencing jury trial in Miller County, Arkansas as part of a three-lawyer defense team.Obtained a defense verdict in favor of manufacturer of maritime diesel engines in a product liability case alleging asbestos-induced lung cancer, tried in the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia County.Obtained defense verdict in favor of a manufacturer of asbestos-containing gaskets in a products liability case alleging asbestos-induced mesothelioma, tried in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.Obtained mistrial, following hung jury, on behalf of a boiler manufacturer in a product liability case alleging asbestos-induced mesothelioma, tried in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware.Successfully argued for the reversal of a $1.3 million verdict against a manufacturer of asbestos-containing gaskets before the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.Obtained mistrial, following hung jury, on behalf of a client charged with federal conspiracy to harbor unlawful aliens and money laundering, tried in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland; the client was the only defendant not convicted following trial.Co-tried the successful defense of a death penalty case.

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Tara Clarke

Firm: Gohn, Hankey & Stichel, LLP

201 N. Charles Street , Baltimore , Maryland 21201 Zip code: 21201

Practice Areas: Litigation

Tara K. Clarke focuses on estate administration, wills and commercial litigation. Ms. Clarke returned home to Maryland to practice law after graduating in the inaugural class of Drexel University College of Law and serving a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Mark I. Bernstein, Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Philadelphia’s Commerce Court. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Clarke was a research biologist with the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute at the National Naval Medical Center and is published in the International Journal of Radiation Biology. She also presented and published in the proceedings of NATO Human Factors and Medicine Panel Research Task Group Meeting 2005.. Professional Memberships • American Bar Association Section on Real Probate and Trust Law • Baltimore City Bar Association • Maryland State Bar Association Section on Estates and Trusts Section on Animal Law Young Lawyers Section. Community Service • 11th Street Family Health Services Prepared wills, power of attorney and advanced medical directive documents for low-income families • Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Pro bono cases in the area of wills, estates, trusts, and guardianships. Hobbies include playing tennis, squash and volleyball, traveling, reading, and spending time with family and friends.

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