| Memberships | Maryland State Bar Association; District of Columbia Bar; The American Association for Justice (Chair: Pain Pump - Chondrolysis Litigation Group; Vice Chair, Hormone Therapy Litigation Group; Past Chair, Rezulin Litigation Group; Latex Allergy Litigation Group; Baycol Litigation Group; HMO Litigation Group; AIDS Litigation Group. Past Chair, Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts; Chair, Publications Committee; National College of Advocacy, Former Member of Board of Trustees); Maryland Association for Justice (Formerly Maryland Trial Lawyers Association) (Board of Governors, 1992—; President, 2002; AAJ State Governor); Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.; Public Justice. |
| Biography | Named: Best Lawyers in America, 2005—; Maryland Super Lawyer (top 50), 2006 to Present. Recipient, Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, July 2002 and July 2003. Member, International Society of Barristers. Co-Author: with Martin H. Freeman, "Just Say No: Resisting Protective Orders," Trial, Vol. 26, No. 3, March 1990; Article, "Transfusion-Associated AIDS and Medical Liability," Trial, Vol. 27, No. 5, May 1991; Co-Author: with Sidney Schupak, "Liability for HIV Transmission," Trial, Vol. 28, No. 5, May 1992; Book Chapter, "Transfusion-and Hemophilia-Associated AIDS," in AIDS Practice Manual, National Lawyers Guild AIDS Network, 1992; Co-Author: Co-Author: with Barbara Hirsch, "The Time of Fetal Death," Trial, Vol. 30, No. 5, May 1994. Editor, "Transfusion - Associated AIDS", Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., 1995; Co-Author: with Christian Mester, "Putting the Gloves on to Fight Latex Protein Toxicity Syndrome," Regulatory Affairs Focus, Vol. 4, No. 7, July 1999; Co Author with Bryant Welch, "Litigating Against the HMO," Trial Reporter of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association (Summer 1999); "Rezulin: Fast Track to Failure," Trial, Vol. 36, No. 7, July 2000. Co-Author: with Bryant Welch, "Suicide Watch: Liability for Negligent Psychiatric Care," Trial, Vol. 37, No. 5 May 2001; "Diving Into Scuba Litigation," Trial, Vol. 37, No. 8, August, 2001; "How to Attack Discovery Abuse," Trial, Vol. 38, No. 2, February 2002; "The Road to a Recall: Defective Bronchoscopes," Trial, Vol. 38, No. 11, November 2002. Fellow: Maryland Bar Foundation. |