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Hon. Howard S. Chasanow (Ret.)

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Lawyer of the Year, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Best Lawyers of America, Washington, DC, 2010

Voted a Top 3 “Best Individual Mediator” by more than 3000 members of the Washington, DC legal community, in the Best of Legal Times Reader's Rankings, 2011

Maryland Tier 1 ranking for ADR
U.S. News and World Report Best Law Firm Rankings, 2010

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Teresa Menendez
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Specialties

  • General
  • Appellate
  • Business/Commercial
  • Construction
  • Environmental
  • Insurance
  • Personal Injury/Torts
  • Pharmaceuticals/Mass Torts
  • Professional Liability

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Hon. Howard S. Chasanow (Ret.) served as a Judge on Maryland’s District Court, Circuit Court, and Court of Appeals (Maryland Supreme Court). Judge Chasanow has been a full-time mediator for over 10 years, and has mediated complex cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars, including dozens of cases in the tens of millions of dollars range. He is one of the pre-eminent mediators on the East Coast and is often booked months in advance.

Judge Chasanow was named the 2010 Lawyer of the Year for ADR in Washington D.C. by Best Lawyers, and he also received a Maryland Tier 1 ranking for ADR in the 2010 U.S. News and World Report Best Law Firm Rankings. Voted a Top 3 “Best Individual Mediator” in the Best of Legal Times Readers Rankings.

Representative Matters

Representative matters resolved by Judge Chasanow include:
  • Personal Injury/Torts: auto, libel, premises liability, product liability, and wrongful death
  • Professional liability: medical, legal, accountant, architect, and directors and officers
  • Commercial and business disputes of all types including partnership dissolution matters
  • Engineering and Construction
  • Estates and Trusts
  • Insurance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Real Property

Comments from Counsel, Litigants, and the Media

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Honors, Memberships, and Professional Activities

  • First Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, May, 2008
  • Part-time faculty member for 12 years, taught Criminal Procedure and Evidence, University of Maryland School of Law
  • Faculty Member, American Academy of Judicial Education for 15 years, lecturing on evidence throughout the country, including Judicial Education Programs held at Harvard Law School, Miami Law School, and New Hampshire Law School. Also conducted five-day judicial education programs for trial judges in the States of California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Puerto Rico, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming, as well as judicial education programs in St. Petersburg, Russia and Budapest, Hungary
  • Faculty Member, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada for 18 years teaching the graduate program on Evidence
  • Former Chair, Rules of Evidence Subcommittee designated by the Court of Appeals to draft the Rules of Evidence for the State of Maryland
  • Four-term Chair, Maryland Judicial Conference Criminal Law Committee; and two-term Chair, Maryland Judicial Conference Civil Law Committee
  • Former Assistant and Deputy State’s Attorney, Prince George’s County
  • Former State Judge Advocate, Maryland American Legion
    • Member, Veterans of Foreign Wars
  • Maryland Bar Association: Former Chair, Criminal Section; Former Chair, Judicial Administration Section; Former Chair, Trial Methods & Skills Committee of the Section on Litigation
  • Former Vice Chair and Chair, Sentencing Guidelines Commission that developed Maryland Sentencing Guidelines
  • Member, Governor’s Task Force on the Defense of Insanity that drafted the current Insanity Laws
  • Past President, Montgomery-Prince George’s Continuing Legal Education Institute
  • Past President, J. Dudley Digges Chapter; Founder and Past President, Marlborough Chapter, American Inns of Court
  • Former Member, Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure; Former Chair, Criminal Rules Subcommittee; Former Chair, Subcommittee on Rules on Admission to the Bar
  • Former Member, Governor’s Task Force to Review the Criminal Code

Background and Education

  • Judge, Court of Appeals of Maryland (Maryland Supreme Court), January, 1990-August, 1999
  • Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland, 1977-1990
  • Judge, District Court of Maryland, 1971-1977
  • LL.M., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, 1962
    • Awards: Hattie M. Strong Foundation Grant; Phi Sigma Delta Scholarship; appointed judge of the Harvard Law School Ames Competition
  • LL.B. (now J.D.), with honors, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, MD, 1961 (Ranked first in day school class)
    • Awards: Casenote Editor, Maryland Law Review; John S. Strahorn, Memorial Prize for the student judged most proficient in the Law of Evidence; Walter L. Clark Scholarship; United States Law Week Award; Order of Coif
  • Served with the United States Air Force in Korea and Japan; decorations include the Air Force Commendation Medal