GOODELL DEVRIES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Adam Kelley is a partner with Goodell DeVries and concentrates his practice on the representation of individual and institutional healthcare providers in cases of alleged medical negligence. He has over twenty years of experience representing physicians, psychologists, nurses, nursing homes, hospitals, and ambulatory care centers in Maryland and the District of Columbia in both federal and state court proceedings.
Adam has successfully defended healthcare providers through trial in Maryland's District Courts and Circuit Courts. He has also successfully argued dispositive and non-dispositive motions in Maryland's District Courts and Circuit Courts and the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, as well as successful appeals in Maryland's Court of Special Appeals. He has also successfully represented healthcare providers before Maryland's Board of Physicians and Board of Nursing.
ln an effort to help reduce litigation risks for healthcare providers, Adam has given multiple grand rounds lectures to hospital departments and to nurses on topics such as avoiding malpractice, depositions in malpractice cases, medical documentation, HIPAA, EMTALA, and other aspects of healthcare law. He also served for five years as the Director of the Education Committee for the Maryland-D.C. Society for Healthcare Risk Management, of which he is a long-time member. Additionally, he has provided guidance on the drafting of hospital protocols.
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Amy Heinrich is a partner with Goodell DeVries and concentrates her practice on professional malpractice defense. She focuses on the defense of healthcare providers and healthcare institutions.
Amy represents healthcare providers, including physicians, nurses, and therapists in a wide array of professional malpractice claims before the Health Care Alternative Dispute Resolution Office of Maryland, the Circuit Courts of Maryland, the Superior Court of Washington, D.C., and the United States District Courts for Maryland and the District of Columbia. She represents community hospitals and academic medical centers in such claims, as well as for claims involving allegations of negligent credentialing. She has provided representation to hospitals in privileging disputes with individual healthcare providers. Her institutional clients over the years have included Greater Baltimore Medical Center, St. Agnes Hospital, and many others.
As part of her practice, Amy provides representation to mental health professionals in malpractice cases, including psychiatric hospitals, psychiatrists, psychologists, and licensed clinical social workers. Claims involving mental healthcare providers have included diverse allegations of negligence, such as failure to predict suicide, failure to predict harm to others, sexual misconduct, and negligent prescription. Amy has represented Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital and its affiliates in such matters over the years.
Amy has extensive experience in the representation of numerous long-term care facilities. She is often asked to begin representation at the outset of a potential claim and handles such matters through conclusion. She also represents individual healthcare providers in such contexts. She has significant experience in litigating claims concerning allegations arising out of falls, wounds, neglect, and abuse. Amy also represents healthcare providers before their professional licensing boards.
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
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- Co - Owner and Managing Principal ( 1997 - 2022 )
- Founding Principal
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- CEO, Baltimore Legal Elite for Business Law ( 2009 )
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- Personal Representative of the Estate of William L. Goulart, Sr., Et Al. V. ACandS, Inc., Et Al., ( Md. App. 2002 )
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- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Bonnie Beavan is a partner with Goodell DeVries. Before entering the private practice of law, Bonnie was a law clerk to the Honorable Edward B. Davis of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and a law clerk with the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, in Washington, D.C.
Since entering private practice in 1986, Bonnie's work has focused on pharmaceutical, product liability, and professional malpractice defense. She defends her clients against claims of negligence, regulatory non-compliance, fraud, and alleged failures to adequately test, manufacture, design, and warn about products and medications. Bonnie represents manufacturers, hospitals, physicians, and other healthcare providers and companies in local, federal, and multidistrict litigation. Her practice encompasses all phases of the litigation process, including pre-trial, trial, and appellate representation.
Bonnie's medical device and pharmaceutical work has focused on the representation of corporations and manufacturers in individual lawsuits, multidistrict suits, and class actions. Her responsibilities have included the defense of suits alleging autoimmune disease, heart damage, cancer, neurological deficits, and other personal injuries as a result of exposure to silicone gel-filled breast implants, latex gloves, diet drugs, hormone therapy medications, thimerosal, and other products and medications. She has also counseled clients concerning alleged failures to comply with regulatory reporting and submission requirements.
Bonnie's medical malpractice trial work has involved multiple areas of medicine, including cardiology, hematology, neurosurgery, general surgery, internal medicine, infectious diseases, pathology, obstetrics, gynecology, emergency medicine, radiology, neurology, psychiatry, and family practice medicine.
Practice Areas
Product Liability
Job Titles:
- Counsel
- Counsel at Goodell De
Carrie Williams is Counsel at Goodell DeVries and a member of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. She represents clients across the firm's many practice groups in pre-trial and appellate matters. Carrie brings 16 years of appellate experience at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General, where she served as Principal Counsel for Criminal Policy and, before that, Division Chief of the Criminal Appeals Division.
During her government service, Carrie argued more than 50 cases before the Supreme Court of Maryland and hundreds of cases in the Appellate Court of Maryland. She also handled cases in the United States Supreme Court. She was on the Petitioner's Brief in Maryland v. King, 569 U.S. 435 (2013), and an amicus brief joined by 28 states in Davis v. United States, 564 U.S. 229 (2011).
Carrie has participated in numerous panels on brief writing, oral advocacy, and Maryland appellate updates. From 2014-2022, she served on the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she taught Introduction to Advocacy.
Practice Areas
Appellate
Job Titles:
- Inn of Court - Chair, Programming Committee
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- Partner
- Founding Partner of Goodell De
Craig Merkle is a founding partner of Goodell DeVries and has been actively involved in trial practice since 1982. His practice is concentrated in professional malpractice defense, hospital litigation, and professional disciplinary and licensing actions. He also served as trial counsel with the firm's pharmaceutical and medical device practice groups.
Craig is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL) and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He has also been repeatedly recognized for excellence in his practice by Chambers USA, Maryland Super Lawyers, and Best Lawyers.
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- Partner
- Named DCDLA 's Lawyer of the Year for 2020
Craig Brodsky Named DCDLA's Lawyer of the Year for 2020
Goodell DeVries Partner Honored with an Exceptional Performance Citation by the DRI
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Editor of the Defense Research Institute
- Partner With Goodell De
Derek Stikeleather is a partner with Goodell DeVries and Chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. He practices primarily in appellate advocacy and complex litigation, often in commercial disputes or defending product liability, medical malpractice, and class action claims. Derek led the appellate teams that helped overturn the two largest birth-injury verdicts in Maryland history ($55 MM and $229 MM). A dedicated writer, he has briefed and argued appeals on behalf of physicians and several prominent hospitals before the appellate courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia and in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Derek has also successfully argued class action and commercial appeals in the California Court of Appeal, New York's Appellate Division (First Department), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Derek was instrumental in two recent notable Maryland appellate victories. In 2020, he helped the Goodell DeVries team that persuaded the Supreme Court of Maryland to formally adopt the Daubert standard for expert testimony in all state-court civil and criminal proceedings and retire the Frye-Reed test. And, in 2021, through briefing and oral argument, Derek persuaded the Appellate Court of Maryland to overturn a $205 million final judgment - the largest birth-injury award in U.S. history - and order JNOV for the defendant hospital.
Before and during trials, Derek works closely with trial counsel across many disciplines to brief and argue expert challenges, summary judgment, and other dispositive issues. He has represented several medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Pfizer, DENTSPLY International, Inc., DePuy Orthopaedics, and Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics in federal and state court proceedings.
Practice Areas
Appellate
Derek currently serves as the Fourth Circuit editor of the Defense Research Institute's periodical DRI Daubert Online, which tracks developments in the federal circuits' application of the landmark Daubert decision on standards for the admission of expert-witness testimony.
Before joining the firm in 2007, Derek worked for two years at a prominent international law firm based in Baltimore. Before becoming an attorney, he taught Advanced Placement United States History and coached varsity hockey for eight years, the last six years at St. Paul's School in Baltimore. Through law school and in practice, he has been active in numerous programs assisting at-risk students, teachers, and schools.
Job Titles:
- of Counsel
- Founding Partner of Goodell De
Donald DeVries is a founding partner of Goodell DeVries. He has tried well over 100 cases to verdict. Since he and his partners established Goodell DeVries in 1988, he has built an award-winning regional medical malpractice defense litigation practice and is known for successfully representing many notable clients in trial and appellate courts.
According to clients quoted in The Best Lawyers of America, Donald is "a giant among his peers" and 'uses his vast experience to recommend thoughtful defense strategies, has the respect of the plaintiff's bar, and utilizes his many relationships to obtain successful outcomes on cases." Further, "[Donald's] quiet yet strong manner provides clients great comfort and his adversaries great concern. His ethics are unassailable and his competence is unquestionable. "When I have a matter that requires great legal skill coupled with common sense and intellect, Don is my lawyer of first choice." As described by Chambers USA, a leading guide to the legal industry, he is a "superb lawyer" who is "top of the heap in medical malpractice and products liability defense in Maryland."
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Co - Present Trademarks Abandonment CLE
Donna Thomas is a partner at Goodell Devries and represents a broad range of clients in commercial and intellectual property transactions. From publicly traded corporations making mega-buck acquisitions - Donna closed $150 million in deals in less than three months a while back working through the Thanksgiving holiday to get them done - to individuals, she does it all. She handles the clearance, registration, licensing, protection, and defense of copyrights and trademarks, and helps with the responding and resolving of cease-and-desist letters for both.
Besides being a consummate business lawyer, Donna is also an experienced intellectual property lawyer. She has taught Copyright and Media Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore. She is also a frequent lecturer on intellectual property subjects, including teaching trademark law as an instructor for the Maryland Bar Association, and she is a frequent lecturer at various Association of Corporate Counsel chapters around the country. Additionally, Donna served as the Chair of the Intellectual Property Law section of the Maryland State Bar Association and co-authors the six-volume legal treatise, 'The Law of Advertising and Mass Communications' with Jim Astrachan. She is also co-author of Goodell DeVries's intellectual property law blog.
Donna has litigated a variety of cases involving intellectual property, advertising, and business issues, from state Circuit Courts to U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and ranging from crayons to counterfeit cigarettes to surgical products.
Donna enjoys an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, has been selected for Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers, and has been named Baltimore's Best Copyright and Trademark Lawyer by the Best Lawyers publication.
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property
Donna is a frequent speaker on business, intellectual property, and advertising law issues for advertising clubs, corporate counsel groups, trade associations, bar associations, and other organizations. She is co-author of the legal treatise The Law of Advertising and Mass Communications, published by Matthew Bender - Lexis/Nexis.
George Mahaffey is Counsel to Goodell DeVries, where he advises and defends a wide variety of clients in professional liability matters. He handles ethics-related matters on behalf of accountants, attorneys, engineers, design professionals, and financial services and insurance professionals.
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- Figel & Frederick PLLC - Associate
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- Associate
- Associate With Goodell De
- Member of the Bar Association of Baltimore City
Ifeanyi Ezeigbo is an associate with Goodell DeVries and a member of the firm's Medical Malpractice Practice Group. Ifeanyi represents healthcare providers and healthcare institutions in all phases of medical malpractice litigation from commencement to completion. He is experienced in all aspects of complex litigation, including investigation, depositions, motions practice, discovery disputes, and settlement.
Prior to joining Goodell DeVries, Ifeanyi was Of Counsel at a mid-sized regional law firm with his practice focused on railroad liability, premises liability, and medical malpractice defense. He also has extensive experience with litigating toxic torts and insurance defense matters. Prior to entering private practice, Ifeanyi served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Alfred Nance on the Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
Ifeanyi received his J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law, where he served as Publications Editor for the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law. While in law school, Ifeanyi published his article, "The Questionable Constitutionality of Mechanical Restraints in the Classroom: A Critique of the Tenth Circuit's Decision in Ebonie S. v. Pueblo School District No. 60" in one of the journal's volumes. Ifeanyi received his B.A., cum laude, from St. Mary's College of Maryland, where he majored in Economics and Spanish Literature. He is a fluent Spanish speaker.
Ifeanyi is an active member of the Bar Association of Baltimore City, where he has served on the Communications and News Journal Committee. He is also a member of the Monumental City Bar Association. Ifeanyi has been named to the Top 40 Under 40 by the National Black Lawyers Top 100 for 2020, 2021, and 2022.
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Jeff Hines is a partner with Goodell DeVries. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, he was the managing principal of a regional law firm's District of Columbia and Virginia offices. Jeff is licensed in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, and has represented clients in trials and appeals in all three jurisdictions. His areas of practice include professional malpractice, toxic tort and environmental litigation, pharmaceutical litigation, product liability, and commercial, securities and employee litigation. Jeff is the firm's General Counsel and serves on the three-person Executive Committee.
Practice Areas
Product Liability
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Jhanelle Graham Caldwell is a partner with Goodell DeVries. Her civil litigation practice is focused primarily on defending healthcare providers and healthcare institutions in professional liability matters alleging birth trauma, serious bodily injury, and wrongful death. Jhanelle has obtained defense verdicts in medical malpractice cases for her healthcare clients, including hospitals and physicians, at jury trials in Maryland and the District of Columbia. She manages all aspects of litigation and discovery, including factual investigation, litigation strategy development, expert and fact witness depositions, mediation, motions hearings, and trial advocacy.
Prior to joining Goodell DeVries, Jhanelle was a civil litigation associate at Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, P.C. in Baltimore, Maryland, where she defended clients in product liability matters, employment disputes, and complex commercial litigation. She earned a health law certificate from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (cum laude), where she was Vice President of the graduating class; a two-time recipient of the Dean's Award; a Monumental City Bar Foundation Scholar; a Murphy Scholar; and a recipient of the William P. Cunningham Award for exceptional academic achievement and service. Jhanelle also served on the Executive Board of the Maryland Law Review as its Manuscripts Editor and was a judicial intern for former Chief Judge Robert M. Bell at the Supreme Court of Maryland. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Jhanelle earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy of Science with a minor in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was inducted into the Friars Senior Society - the oldest undergraduate honor society at the University of Pennsylvania. She subsequently completed research fellowships at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), investigating the human T-lymphotropic virus; and the Fogarty International Center for the National Institutes of Health, where she was a member of a global research team performing a childhood malnutrition study in Asia, Africa, and South America. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Jhanelle is an avid performer of vocal jazz and a Lifetime Honoree of the Jamaica Musical Theater Company. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (MdVLA).
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Job Titles:
- Nesbitt / Managing Partner
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Kamil Ismail is a partner with Goodell DeVries. He practices in the areas of product liability, insurance coverage, and commercial and business tort litigation. He has represented clients in bench and jury trials in state and federal courts, and in mediations and other proceedings.
In his product liability practice, Kamil has represented Pfizer Inc., Bayer, Wyeth, DENTSPLY, Perrigo, Intervet, and Akzo Nobel in cases involving pharmaceutical drugs, medical devices, and other medical, dental, and veterinary products. He has defended clients against class action lawsuits in a variety of settings. In his insurance coverage practice, Kamil has represented insurers, including Zurich, AIG, and Everest, as well as policyholders, including DENTSPLY, in coverage disputes. In his commercial and general civil litigation practice, Kamil has litigated business disputes on behalf of clients ranging from large corporations, including Pfizer Inc., Republic Services, and Genesis Health Ventures, to a variety of smaller companies. On referral from pro bono organizations, Kamil has also represented indigent clients in a variety of proceedings.
Kamil has considerable experience in appellate matters related to insurance coverage disputes. In a recent notable case, after successfully briefing and arguing for the adoption of time-on-the-risk pro rata allocation on behalf of the insurer in the trial court, Kamil participated on the appellate team that successfully defended the ruling and led to the adoption of this principle by the Supreme Court of Maryland. He also briefed and argued successfully for affirmance in the Appellate Court of Maryland in Wood v. Nayfeh, No. 1127 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2019), and he briefed and argued successfully for reversal on behalf of the policyholder in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Trice, Geary & Myers, LLC v. Camico Mut. Ins. Co., 459 F. App'x 266 (4th Cir. 2011).
Kamil began his legal career at Goodell DeVries in 1993, practicing in the areas of pharmaceutical liability and insurance coverage litigation. He left briefly to practice white collar criminal litigation at Hogan & Hartson, LLP but later returned to Goodell DeVries to focus on civil litigation. He has been a partner since 2004 and is AV Peer Review-Rated.
Practice Areas
Appellate
Job Titles:
- Founding Member
- Managing Partner
- Partner
Linda Woolf is a founding member and past Managing Partner of Goodell DeVries. Linda's practice is devoted to the representation of clients in catastrophic loss, class action and multidistrict litigation, complex commercial, insurance coverage, construction, and government liability litigation. She has worked on behalf of national and international companies in a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing, engineering software, utilities, food production, insurance, finance, professional athletics, transportation, healthcare, and many others.
Linda is ranked in Commercial Litigation and Insurance Coverage by Chambers USA, which noted in 2018, "A veteran of numerous complex and high-profile coverage disputes, she is further acclaimed for the national scope of her practice." Linda is rated AV Preeminent for the highest level of professional excellence by Martindale-Hubbell.
Practice Areas
Product Liability
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Named Chair of State Board of Law Examiners Accommodations Review Committee
- Partner With Goodell De
Malcolm Brisker is a partner with Goodell DeVries. He concentrates his legal practice in all areas of civil defense litigation including product liability, construction, and insurance defense. He has extensive experience in the defense of companies in toxic tort litigation involving, among other things, alleged asbestos, mold, and lead paint exposure. He has tried product liability and personal injury cases, both jury and non-jury, throughout Maryland and the District of Columbia. A leader in toxic tort litigation, Malcolm serves on the working group judicial committee for asbestos litigation for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. He also serves on the steering committee for Asbestos Litigation in the District of Columbia. Malcolm is a member of The Defense Research Institute and Maryland Defense Counsel, Inc.
Malcolm also handles construction matters for product manufacturers, general contractors, and subcontractors involving claims for property damage and personal injuries in both Maryland state and federal courts.
Practice Areas
Construction Defect
Asbestos Litigation in the Era of Online Legal Proceedings: A Q&A with Malcolm Brisker
Maryland Super Lawyers, Cover Story, The Annual List of Top Attorneys in Maryland (2014)
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate at Goodell De
Matthew Tranter is an associate at Goodell DeVries, where he focuses on commercial litigation. Matthew represents businesses and individuals involved in a wide range of commercial disputes. Most recently, he has conducted discovery in class actions on data privacy and has briefed and argued civil appeals in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
Prior to entering private practice, Matthew served as a law clerk for the former Chief Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland, Peter B. Krauser. He also interned for the Honorable Catherine C. Blake and the Honorable Richard D. Bennett, both of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Matthew earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an Executive Editor for the Virginia Tax Review and a member of the school's extramural moot court team. He earned his undergraduate degree from Franklin & Marshall College, where he majored in economics. Before attending law school, he worked in public transportation advocacy and as a project assistant at a medical society for genetic healthcare professionals.
Practice Areas
Commercial and Business Tort Litigation
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Member of the Firm
- Partner With Goodell De
Michael Pichini is a partner with Goodell DeVries. His practice is concentrated in civil litigation with an emphasis on product liability defense. His practice also includes mass toxic torts, lead paint, construction litigation, and subrogation matters. In the products field, Michael deals regularly with pharmaceutical products and industrial minerals. He has participated in product liability and personal injury trials in California and Maryland in state and federal courts. He has also practiced in numerous state and federal jurisdictions on a pro hac vice basis, conducting discovery, motions practice, and general trial preparation. Before practicing law, Michael held a number of positions in the insurance industry dealing with property and casualty claims as well as multi-tiered risk management.
Michael currently acts as national coordinating counsel for an international industrial mineral producer involved in mass tort litigation across several states. As a result of his aggressive defense strategy including discovery, expert retention, trial preparation, and trial in over 20 jurisdictions in both state and federal courts, he has effectuated a dramatic reduction in the number of these cases over an eight-year period.
Michael is a member of the firm's pharmaceutical defense team and has been involved with nationwide discovery and defense strategy in past and current pharmaceutical litigation.
He has successfully achieved favorable resolution through trial and negotiation of numerous asbestos cases pending in Maryland state and various federal courts, including federal multidistrict litigation.
Practice Areas
Product Liability
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Founding Partner of Goodell De
Rick Barnes is a founding partner of Goodell DeVries. He represents clients in complex tort, commercial, and product liability litigation. Recognized as a leading practitioner in these fields by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers, he was awarded 2015's Maryland Leadership in Law Award from The Daily Record. During his career, Rick has represented a variety of clients in disputes involving pharmaceuticals, medical devices, patents, trademarks and the Lanham Act, antitrust, breach of contract, unfair trade practices, aviation, commercial torts, covenants not to compete, and state procurement laws. He has defended companies in federal and state court class actions in Maryland, Florida, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California.
Since 2020, Rick has served as defense liaison counsel for dozens of generic pharmaceutical defendants in the Zantac multidistrict litigation (MDL). He is also lead defense counsel for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the personal injury product liability and medical monitoring and consumer class action MDL No. 2924 related to over-the-counter medicine ranitidine (Zantac) and alleged exposure to N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). This MDL involves over 150,000 claimants and cases and is considered one of the most complex MDL proceedings in history. As liaison counsel for the generics, Rick leads the defense effort and has successfully obtained dismissals on behalf of generic manufacturers in several jurisdictions.
Practice Areas
Intellectual Property
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner With Goodell De
Sean Gugerty is a partner with Goodell DeVries. His practice is focused primarily on defending healthcare providers and healthcare institutions. Sean has successfully represented these clients in medical malpractice and other claims throughout the Maryland and D.C. judicial system. Sean also represents pharmaceutical manufacturers in product liability litigation in state and federal court, as well as providing advice and analysis on regulatory compliance and risk mitigation.
Sean handles complex litigation in all its phases, including investigation, depositions, motions practice, alternative dispute resolution, and trial. He has prevailed in dispositive motions in both state and federal court, including in the In Re: Zantac multidistrict litigation in the Southern District of Florida, where he was the co-lead counsel for briefing and arguing motions that secured the dismissal of all claims against the generic manufacturer defendants. Sean also briefed and argued motions resulting in the dismissal of the first COVID-19 medical malpractice claim brought in Maryland state court. In addition, Sean has experience briefing and arguing appeals before the Appellate Court and the Supreme Court of Maryland.
Before joining the firm, Sean was the law clerk to the Hon. Joseph M. Getty at the Supreme Court of Maryland. He also clerked for the Hon. Peter B. Krauser, Chief Judge of the Appellate Court of Maryland (Ret.), and the Hon. Sherrie R. Bailey, Associate Judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Sean attended the University of Maryland School of Law, where he had a concentration in health law, served on the Journal of Health Law & Policy and the Maryland Law Moot Court Board, and interned with the legal department of The Johns Hopkins Health System.
Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice
Job Titles:
- Chief Judge, Circuit Court for Baltimore City - Judicial Law Clerk ( 2014 - 2015 )
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- Chief Judge of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City - Judicial Law Clerk ( 1999 - 2000 )
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- Partner
- Honored With Most Valuable Partner Award by Equal Justice Council
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- Honored With Most Valuable Partner Award by Equal Justice Council
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- Review - Executive Editor, Managing Board
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- Osthimer & Tatum - Associate