Personal Injury

I enjoy litigating vehicle accident cases and a wide variety of clientèle. Because of my background prior to becoming an attorney, I have a different insight as to what people are looking for and what they expect from someone providing service to them.

MD, Dec 2005

DC, Nov 2006

Maryland professional ethics code forbids any attorney from holding him or herself out as a "specialist."

I am admitted to practice law in all Maryland State Courts, the Federal District for Maryland, and the District of Columbia.

Maryland State Bar Association
Montgomery County Bar Association
Maryland Trial Lawyers Association

Maryland does not have a set requirement for continuing legal education (CLE). However, as a member of each, I attend many CLE classes on various subjects from the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.

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One example of a case I recently won (eventually) was an auto-accident case in an adjoining county. With the facts of the case, the finder-of-fact could have decided the case for either party. As it turned out at the trial level, the case was decided against my client. However, it was decided not so much on the facts as they should have been, but a mistake by the judge that altered the rules of evidence in a way that disfavored my client. My client was distraught at the mistake by the court, but did not have the money to afford an appeal. I decided that I had to act, so I took this particular clients case on a pro bono basis (I did not charge for my services) and I appealed the case. About a year later, the appeal was heard and we prevailed. This case had a very happy ending for my client and she has since been able to move on from her encounter with our legal system.

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Maryland and the District of Columbia.

I started my own practice on August 1st, 2006. Prior to that, I worked as an associate attorney for a local firm for a short while after graduating from law school. While working for the local firm, it became readily apparent to me that because of my background prior to law, I had different ideas on how clients should be dealt with and how a firm should be run.

Looking at the rapid success my practice has achieved since its inception, both in number of cases won and financial success for the firm as a business, I am now sure that I had the right idea and I made the right decision. I set goals for every six month period and shattered each goal I set for myself. The amount of referrals I receive from current and former clients astonishes me. I truly believe that if my ideas on running a firm and my approach to treating clients were not what I had set it out to be, this would not have happened.

Needless to say, I intend to maintain my approach to both business and client relations.

My firm practices in three main areas of law: personal injury (civil), domestic matters, criminal matters, and . Regardless of the area, the focus is always the same. I believe in giving each client an honest assessment of his or her case, the strategy or course of action I would take if retained for representation, and my best opinion of the client's chances of success based on the current state of the law, the jurisdiction, and the facts as presented. Additionally, I will not accept representation of a client if I think there is no reasonable possibility of success on the client's goals, just to profit myself.

My work history started out in 1983 with the military as an enlisted member of the U.S. Army working as a repairman/technician for aircraft electronic systems. In that capacity I eventually worked my way into the ranks of the non-commissioned officers (sergeant) and managed others in the same type of work. As do most military members, I traveled a fair amount, but spent most (seven years) of my time stationed in S. Korea. Shortly after ending my service in 1994, I started working for a Japanese multi-national corporation in its U.S. headquarters in Columbia, Maryland. Here, I worked as a product coordinator in tactical marketing. This job I credit with teaching much of what I employ today in running my business (firm) and in teaching me how to properly treat clients so as to earn their trust and return business by satisfying their needs, legal and otherwise. While working in my marketing position, I returned to school by attending classes at night and earned both my B.A. and J.D.

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(866) 330-8861

Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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With advance notice, I can have a Korean interpreter present.

I do not have fixed prices. Personal injury cases are almost always taken on a contingency basis. Hourly rate cases depend on the type of work that I will perform. Criminal matters, and some domestic, are usually done on a flat-fee basis.

My hourly rates vary, as explained above.

I do not charge initial consultation fees for personal injury/contingency cases. Other matters I charge between $50 and $100, depending on what I estimate the length of the consultation. For some matters, the consultation may be an hour and a half, where I would charge $100 flat, which is less than half of my normal hourly rate.

Retainers are amounts of money that are placed in trust to assure the attorney that funds are available for the expected work. Since the amount of work depends upon the individual case, I cannot reasonably have a "standard" retainer. All retainer amounts are determined only after the initial consultation when I have learned enough about the client and his or her matter to set a retainer amount that is fair to the client and the attorney.