Awards
AV Preeminent Rating, 2025 | AV Preeminent Rating, 2023 | AV Preeminent Rating, 1985 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2024 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2023 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2023 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2023 | Named one of “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers”, 2022 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2022 | Named "Lawyer of the Year" for Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, Baltimore, 2022 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2022 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2022 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2022 | Named one of “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers”, 2021 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2021 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2021 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2021 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2021 | Named one of “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers", 2020 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2020 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2020 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2020 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2020 | Named one of “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers", 2019 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2019 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2019 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2019 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2019 | Named one of “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers", 2018 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2018 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2018 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2018 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2018 | Trial Lawyer Roundtable, Selected to America’s 50 Most Influential Trial Lawyers, 2017 | Named "Lawyer of the Year" for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, Baltimore, 2017 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2017 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2017 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2017 | Named "Lawyer of the Year" for Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Baltimore, 2016 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2016 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2016 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2016 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2015 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2015 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2015 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2014 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2014 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2014 | Named "Lawyer of the Year" for Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, Baltimore, 2013 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2013 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2013 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2013 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2012 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2012 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2012 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2011 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2011 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2011 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2010 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2010 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2010 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2009 | Trial Lawyer of the Year Award, 2009 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2009 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2009 | Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal for commitment to the civil justice system, 2008 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2008 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2008 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2008 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2007 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2007 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2007 | Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, 2006 | Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2006 | Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2006 | Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal for commitment to the civil justice system, 2004 | Morris Balser Award for Fundraising, First Place, 2003 | Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal for commitment to the civil justice system, 2003 | Wiedemann-Wysocki Medal for commitment to the civil justice system, 2002 | Morris Balser Award for Fundraising, First Place, 2002 | “Advocate of Trial Advocacy,” National College of Advocacy, 2002 | Morris Balser Award for Fundraising, First Place, 2001 | Maryland Bar, 1985 | District of Columbia Bar, 1986 | Massachusetts Bar, 2017 | Maryland Bar Association, Member, 1985 | American Association for Justice, Member, 1985 | District of Columbia Bar Association, Member, 1986 | Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Member, 1990 | Maryland Bar Foundation, Fellow, 2000 | Maryland Association for Justice, Past President, 2002 | International Society of Barristers, Fellow, 2010 | Massachusetts Bar Association, Member, 2017