Practice Areas ; Administrative Hearings and Appeals(10%); Fidelity and Surety Bonds(50%); Fidelity and Surety; Insurance Rehabilitation and Liquidation(10%); Civil Litigation&sa=270&d=1&h=180&w=200&sl=false&dm=True&in=50) | ......................... 50% Fidelity and Surety ............................ 30% Construction Law......................... 10% Administrative Heari............................ 10% Insurance Rehabilita...
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Fidelity and Surety,Civil Litigation |
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| University | College of Wooster, B.A., Political Science/Urban Studies, with departmental honors, 1980 |
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| Law School | University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 1985 |
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| Admitted | 1985, Maryland; 1986, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1990, U.S. Court of Federal Claims; 2004, U.S. Supreme Court; 2011, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia |
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| Memberships | Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Maryland State (Member and Secretary/Treasurer, Fidelity and Surety Subcommittee, 1988-1994; Member: Board of Governors, 1992-1994; Program Committee) and American (Member: Steering Committee, Division 7, Construction Law Forum; Fidelity and Surety Law Committee, Tort, Trial and Insurance Section). |
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| Born | Baltimore, Maryland, April 10, 1958 |
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| Biography | Recipient, Distinguished Service Award, Maryland State Bar Association, Young Lawyers Section, 1991. Assistant Editor, Maryland Law Review, 1984-1985. Co-Author: "Time (and Time Again?): Contractual Limitations and Waiting Periods," For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, March 2008; "ERISA Bonds and Employee Dishonesty: When is an Employee of the Sponsor Considered an Employee of the Plan?" Surety Claims Institute Newsletter, January 2008; with Michael Hurley, "Fractures to the Triangle-Developments that Undermine the Tripartite Surety Relationship," ABA, 2006; "Maryland Construction Law: What Do You Do When?" NBI, 2003; "Surety Bonds and Insurance in the Construction Industry," MICPEL, 1995; "Arbitration of Construction and Commercial Cases," MICPEL, 1991. Lecturer: "Maryland Construction Law," NBI, 2003; "Knowledgeable and Effective Handling of Surety Claims," Mid-Atlantic Surety Association, 1998; "Fundamentals of Construction Law," MICPEL Seminar, 1996-1999; "Pay When Paid Clauses," Mid-Atlantic Surety Association, November 1996, March 1997; "Surety Bonds and the Miller Act," Construction Financial Management Association, Greater Washington, D.C, 1996; "The Surety's Reliance on Financial Statements," AICPA National Construction Industry Conference, 1994. Fellow, Maryland State Bar Foundation. |
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| Reported Cases | Beka Indus. v. Worcester County Bd. of Educ., No. 47, September Term, 2010, COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, 2011 Md. LEXIS 219, April 26, 2011, Filed. |
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| ISLN | 907089870 |
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