Jeffrey Reilly serves as general counsel to the firm and, among other things, advises the firm on all matters relating to professional ethics and responsibility, and furnishes advice to lawyers and business leaders on matters relating to both professional and corporate responsibility and liability.
Jeff combines his prior experience in finance and banking and more than 20years of business litigation to counsel clients on practical, real-world solutions to their legal challenges. He has appeared in State and Federal courts across the country, and participated in all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution, on behalf of financial institutions, industrial equipment and power tool manufacturers, and telecommunication and information technology providers. At the same time, Jeff knows that litigation is often the most costly solution and works with clients to develop innovative business solutions.
Jeff coordinates the legal services for his clients and is involved in the details of many of the companies' daily finance, operations, contracting and personnel issues and problem-solving at various managerial levels. Having developed an extensive knowledge of many of the entities' businesses, he is also involved in their strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions and the integration and reorganization of their various business units.
A particular focus of Jeff's practice has been insurance recovery and risk management on behalf of policyholders. As part of his risk management counseling, Jeff has developed extensive experience with business and professional liability insurance policies and has litigated extensively a broad range of environmental, business interruption, and general casualty coverage matters.
Jeff regularly represents clients in, among other areas:
· Enforcement of creditors' remedies and the defense of claims against financial institutions
· Real Estate related litigation, including landlord tenant matters, title related claims, use violations, application of the rule against perpetuities Arundel Corp. v. Marie, 383 Md. 489 (2004), and property tax appeals both at the administrative and judicial levels
· Counseling on intellectual property issues (e.g., copyright, trademark, trade secret, licensing and unfair competition, among others)
· Emergency matters, where the exigencies of our client's circumstances require us to seek or defend against immediate relief from a court (such as injunctions, receiverships or attachments before process)
· Contractual claims arising from a wide variety of business relationships
Jeff also represents major telecommunication providers as well as technology infrastructure providers. He has successfully prosecuted appeals from decisions of the Maryland Public Service Commission, negotiated public right-of-way access, and an innovative public-private partnership to expand technology infrastructure in critical need areas of Baltimore City. He has represented both facilities- and non-facilities based providers in both the acquisition and disposition of telecommunication infrastructure, including dark fiber agreements, managed service agreements and innovative use agreement. Jeff also has developed national expertise in solving public right-of-way access issues.
Credentials
Free State Swim League: Director (2000-2002)
Maryland Technology and Development Corporation, eReadiness Maryland: Member, Statewide Management Committee
The Maryland Zoological Society, Inc.: Trustee (2003)
Publications
"Overview of Public Rights of Way Access in the State of Maryland - November 2002," Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), eReadiness Maryland: Assessing Our Digital Opportunities: Final Report Presented to the Senate Budget and Taxation (February 01, 2003).
"Reviewing the Rule," The Commercial Investment Real Estate Magazine, CCIM Institute of the National Association of Realtors (July/August 2005).
Speaking Engagements
"Telecommunications Planning - Community Infrastructure, Public Rights of Way and Cell Towers," Maryland Citizen Planners Association Annual Conference, Annapolis, Maryland (October 2003).