Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Civil Litigation
• Professional Services Administration
• Mediator/Arbitrator, Alternative Dispute Resolution, DC Superior
• and Federal District Courts
• Civil Liability Risk Management, Evaluation and Resolution
• Legal/Municipal Governmental Ethics -- Identification and Resolution of
• Controversies

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Transactions, Education Law, Colleges & Universities, Private Schools, Public Schools, Special Education, Student Rights, Tenure, Health & Health Care Law, Disability, Elder Law, Food & Drug Administration, Hospital Law, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Nursing Home, Social Security -- Disability, Professional Malpractice Law, Dental Malpractice, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Other Professionals Malpractice, Transportation Law, Aviation, Mass Transit, Railroad, Shipping, Trucking

Bar Admissions

• Maryland, 1977
• District of Columbia, 1978
• New Jersey, 2003
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1978
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, 1978
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1978
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1987
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1982

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., 1982 - 1998 (Member, Board of Governors)
• American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), 1995 - 1998 (Member)
• Ethics Commission of Calvert County, Maryland, 1998 - 1999 (Member)
• District of Columbia Superior Court Task Force on Civil Delay Reduction (Member)
• Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Injury to Persons and Property Section (Member, Steering Committee)

Honors and Awards

• President AXP-1 Student Body, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 2001

Pro Bono Activities

• Arbitrator, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Mediator, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Past Employment Positions

• McDermott & McGee, LLP, Counselors at Law, Milburn, New Jersey
• American Immigration Law Foundation, Washington, D.C., Senior Litigator, 1999 - 2000
• Law Offices of Elizabeth H. Hamlin, P.C., Washington, D.C., Dunkirk, Maryland, 1993 - 1998
• Christmas, Hamlin and Blaszkow, P.C., Washington, D.C., Partner, 1978 - 1992

Education

• University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, 1977
  J.D.
• University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Chicago, IL, US, 2002
  M.B.A.
  Major: Business Administration
• University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US, 1972
  B.A.
  Major: Liberal Arts

Address

One Lackawanna Plaza
P.O. Box 4205
Montclair, NJ 07042-8205

Phones

(973) 509-7500

Faxes

(973) 509-0414

Emails

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Websites

http://www.garritygraham.com