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Lawyer Overview

Areas of Practice

• Administrative Hearings & Adjudication
• Administrative Investigations
• Affirmative Action -- Employee
• Age Discrimination
• Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee
• Animal Bites -- Plaintiff
• Assault & Battery -- Plaintiff
• Aviation Accidents -- Plaintiff
• Collective Bargaining
• Defamation & Privacy -- Plaintiff
• Disability & Illness Discrimination
• Discrimination
• Employee Rights -- Employee
• Employment Contracts -- Employee
• Employment Discrimination -- Employee
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee
• Federal Appellate Practice
• Federal Trial Practice
• Freedom of Religion
• Freedom of Speech
• Gay & Lesbian Rights
• Labor Arbitration
• Labor Disputes
• Labor Legislation
• Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings
• Motor Vehicle Accidents -- Plaintiff
• National Origin Discrimination
• Premises Liability -- Plaintiff
• Property Damage -- Plaintiff
• Race Discrimination
• Religious Discrimination
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment -- Employee
• Slip and Fall -- Plaintiff
• Sports
• State Appellate Practice
• State Trial Practice
• US Supreme Court
• Unfair Labor Practices
• Unions
• Wage & Hour Laws
• Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee
• Wrongful Death -- Plaintiff
• Wrongful Termination -- Employee
• Personal Injury

Representative Clients

• Graphics Communications International Union, Local 285 AFL-CIO
• International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 24, AFL-CIO
• International Organization of Masters, Mates & Pilots, ILA, AFL-CIO
• International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 37, AFL-CIO
• Individuals in Employment Discrimination Matters

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court, 2001
• U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 1998
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2002
• Maryland
• Federal Claims Court, 2006

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Fellow to the Practice & Procedure Under the NLRA Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section, 2004 - Present
• Maryland State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Council, 2002 - Present (Member)
• Board of Governors of the University of Baltimore Alumni Association, 2000 - Present (Member)

Past Employment Positions

• Field Attorney, National Labor Relations Board, United States Government, 1997 - 2000
• Adjunct, Legal Skills Program, University of Baltimore School of Law, 2000 - Present
• Validation Engineer, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Pharmaceuticals Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 1992 - 1994

Education

• University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Rank (14/312)
  Honors: Heuisler Legal Honor Society
  Honors: Essay Award, 1997
  
  Law Journal: University of Baltimore Law Review, Managing Editor, 1996 - 1997
  
  Law Journal: The Law Forum, Associate Editor, 1996 - 1997
  
  Law Journal: The Law Forum, Staff Editor, 1995 - 1996
• University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland, 1992
  B.S.
  Major: Mechanical Engineering

Fraternities/Sororities

• Nu Sigma Beta

Published Works

• Fitting a Square Peg Into a Round Hole: "Same-sex" Sexual Harassment and the "Because of ... Sex" Requirement in Hostile Environment Claims, 67 REVISTA JURIDICA UNIVERSIDAD DE PUERTO RICO 163, 1998
• The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Territorial Incorporation Doctrine: Reaching a Century of "Constitutional" Authoritarianism, 31 J.MARSHALL L.REV.55, 1997

Address

400 Redland Court
Suite 107
Owings Mills, MD 21117

Phones

(410) 902-0073

Faxes

(410) 902-7372

Emails

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Websites

http://www.sgt-law.com