Maryland State Bar Association Special Committee on Agriculture Law Legal Services Directory

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1 State Bar Association Special Committee on Agriculture Law 2014 Legal Services Directory

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3 MSBA Special Committee on Agriculture Law 2014 Member Listing The State Bar Association Special Committee on Agriculture Law offers the following information to attorneys, businesses, and organizations for informational purposes only. The individuals listed are members of the Special Committee on Agriculture Law and provide services and/or information related to the law and/or agricultural practices. By contacting an individual on this list, it is understood that you are interested in learning more about the services available or making an appointment for a consultation and that until an attorney-client relationship has been created through a legal service agreement, no representation by the firm or individual attorney is established. Attorneys Private Practice... 1 District of Columbia Attorneys Specialty Services and MSBA Associate Members rev. April 2014

4 Attorneys Private Practice Attorney Contact Info Practice Areas States / Counties Rose E. Anderson, Esquire Ria P. Rochvarg, P.A. P. O. Box 1907 Ellicott City, (410) or (703) roseandersonesq@comcast.net or rose.e.ander@gmail.com Benjamin D. Arem, Esquire Law Firm of Knopf and Brown 401 E. Jefferson Street, Suite 206 Rockville, (301) office; (301) fax arem@knopf-brown.com Bruce C. Armistead, Esquire Armistead, Griswold, Lee & Rust, P.A. 114 Bay Street, Building C Easton, (410) phone; (410) fax armistead@aglrlaw.com Aimee M. Bader, Esquire Bernstein & Feldman, P.A. 900 Bestgate Road, Suite 200 Annapolis, (410) office; (410) fax aimeeb@bflaw.com ~ Timothy Stewart Barkley Sr., Esquire One Park Avenue PO Box 1136 Mount Airy, (301) office; (866) fax tbarkley@barkleylaw.com or Thomas C. Beach III, Esquire Whiteford, Taylor, Preston, LLP 7 Saint Paul Street, Suite 1500 Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax tbeach@wtplaw.com Land Use and Zoning Land Use and Zoning; Conservation Easements; Administrative Appeals; General Real Estate and Title Issues Business; Real Estate; Contracts; Property Acquisition; Commercial Leasing; Foreclosure; Foreclosure Defense; Construction and General Litigation Business Formation and Succession; Contract and Document Draft & Review; Wills, Trusts, and Estates; Family Agribusiness; Farm Law; Real Estate Purchase, Sale and Lease Real Estate, Construction, Civil, and Condemnation Litigation; Real Estate Zoning and Development; Land Leases; Auditor (HoCo Circuit Court) (Montgomery and Frederick counties) (Caroline, Dorcester, Kent, Queen Anne s and Talbot counties) and U.S. District Court of MD 1

5 Anne-Thérèse Béchamps, Esquire Venable LLP 210 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 500 Towson, MD (410) office; (410) fax Jan I. Berlage, Esquire Gohn, Hankey, & Stichel, LLP 201 North Charles Street, Suite 2101 Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax or horselaw.com Mary Ann Berlin, Esquire Berlin & Associates, PA 20 South Charles Street, Ste 313 Baltimore, (410) office / (410) fax maberlin@maberlinlaw.com Judith Billage, Esquire 1831 Forest Drive, Suite F Annapolis, (410) office; (410) fax jbillage@aol.com ~ Curtis H. Booth, Esquire Cowdrey Thompson, P.C. 130 North Washington Street P.O. Box 1747 Easton, (410) office; (410) mobile; (410) fax cbooth@ctklaw.com Nathan Brill, Esquire Pasternak & Fidis, PC 7735 Old Georgetown Road, #1100 Bethesda, (301) xt456 office; (301) fax nbrill@pasternakfidis.com ~ Stephanie Brophy, Esquire Dulany Leahy Curtis & Beach LLP 127 East Main Street Westminster, (410) or (410) (Balto.); (410) fax brophy@dulany.com ~ Real Estate; Commercial Finance Commercial and Civil Litigation; Intellectual Property (Copyrights/trademarks/trade secrets); Bankruptcy; Equine Immigration Law Real Estate; Wills & Estates; Family Law (divorce, child custody & support); Premarital Agreements; Adoption Business Formation; Estate Planning; Litigation; Livestock Business; Real Estate; Agriculture Regulations; Land Use and Zoning; Commercial Litigation; Employment Civil Litigation; Corporate and Business Law; Real Property; Equine and Farmrelated matters; Syndications. and Virginia Admitted in MD, DC, CT, NY and the District of Columbia General practice areas throughout. Litigation matters in Baltimore and Carroll counties. 2

6 Adam Cizek, Esquire Whiteford, Taylor, Preston, LLP 7 Saint Paul Street, Suite 1300 Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax acizek@wtplaw.com ~ Tracie L. Clabaugh, Esquire McMillan Metro, PC 1901 Research Boulevard, Suite 500 Rockville, (240) office; (301) fax tclabaugh@mcmillanmetro.com Emma A. Twigg Clarke, Esquire Hampton Plaza, Suite E. Joppa Road Towson, (410) office; (410) emmatwiggclarkeesq@hotmail.com James R. Clifford, Sr., Esquire Clifford, Deblius & Hyatt 316 East Diamond Avenue Gaithersburg, (301) office; (301) fax JClifford@debelius.com Michael H. Daney, Esquire Godwin, Erlandson, Vernon & Daney, LLC 3300 North Ridge Road, Suite 275 Ellicott City, (410) office: (410) fax (703) Virginia office (Fairfax) Daney@GEVDLaw.com ~ Deborah C. Dopkin, Esquire Deborah C. Dopkin, P.A. P.O. Box 323 Brooklandville, (410) office; (410) DDopkin@DopkinLaw.com Christopher F. Drummond, Esquire 119 Lawyers Row Centreville, (410) office; (410) fax cfdrummond@atlanticbbn.net John East, Esquire Law Offices of Stephen Z. Meehan 315 High Street, Suite 201 Chestertown, (410) office; (410) fax east@acg-consultants.com Real Estate; Condemnation; Construction Real Estate Family Law (divorce, alimony, custody, child support); Elder Law; Wills; Advanced Directives and POAs; Collaborative Legal Services; and Mediation Land Use (farmers and property owners) Counsel for Montgomery County Agriculture Center Civil Litigation; Insurance Defense; Toxic Torts; Workers Compensation; Lobbying; Racing Commission; Livestock Issues; Equine; and Mediation Real Property; Land Use; Zoning; Copyright and Trademark Veterinary Malpractice; Estate Planning (for farmers): Agriculture Easements; Mineral Extraction Permitting; Zoning and Planning General Civil Practice, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and Virginia (Baltimore County) (Eastern Shore counties) (Eastern Shore counties) 3

7 Kevin M. Elden, Esquire McNamee Hosea 888 Bestgate Road, Suite 304 Annapolis, (410) office; (410) fax ~ Randy Fisher, Esquire Fisher Law Office 170 Jennifer Road, Suite 205 Annapolis, (443) office; (443) fax John Gabel, Esquire Gabel Legal Services, L.L.C Laurel Bowie Road, Suite 103C Bowie, (301) phone; (240) fax ~ Andrea Baldwin Gillespie, Esquire 40 York Road, Suite 300 Towson, (410) office; (443) fax John B. Gontrum, Esquire Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP 1 West Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 300 Towson Commons Towson, (410) office; (410) fax jgontrum@wtplaw.com John Teigen Hall, Esquire Discepolo LLP 111 S. Calvert St., Suite 1950 Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax teigen@discepolollp.com ~ Roger A. Hayden, II, Esquire Pasternak & Fidis, P.C Old Georgetown Road, #1100 Bethesda, (301) x 459; (301) (fax) rah2@pasternakfidis.com ~ Neil Helfrich, Esquire Club Level 31 East Lee Street Bel Air, (410) office; (410) fax neil@helfrichlaw.com Real Estate (ownership, purchase/sale or asset based financing) in Agricultural, Development, Commercial & Industrial Operations; Agriculture; Corporate Matters Commercial Law; Estate Planning; Intellectual Property; Business Succession Planning Focus on Business Development and Wealth Planning Real Estate; Environmental; Regulatory; Construction; Foreclosure Defense; Bankruptcy; Small Business Business Law; Estate Planning and Probate Land Use, Zoning, Permits; Real Property (leasing and transactions); Wills and Estate Planning Civil Litigation Business; Real Estate; Employment; Wills, Trusts & Estates; Agricultural Land Use, Licensing and Compliance (milk & cheese producers, solar energy, equine); Litigation and ADR; Collaborative and Mediation Services Estate Planning; Wills; Probate; Mediation and Arbitration Services. Central, Southern, and Eastern Shore and District of Columbia (Anne Arundel, Baltimore, and Harford counties) (Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Howard, Kent, and Queen Anne s counties), Virginia, and District of Columbia (Baltimore, Cecil, and Harford counties) 4

8 Michael C. Hodes, Esquire Michael Hodes, LLC 16 Willow Avenue Towson, (410) office; (410) fax Charles D. Jamison, Esquire Mount Ephraim Road Dickerson, Laura L. Johnson, Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) direct; (410) fax Jennifer A. Jones, Esquire P.O. Box 526 Edgewater, (240) office; (443) fax Gianna M. Julian-Arnold, Esquire Saul Ewing LLP 500 East Pratt Street, Suite 900 Baltimore, (410) office; (443) mobile; (410) fax William G. Kazer, Jr., Esquire P.O. Box North First Street Denton, (443) wkazer@kazerlaw.com Paul F. Kemp, Esquire Ethridge, Quinn, Kemp, McAuliffe, Rowan & Hartinger Law Offices 33 Wood Lane Rockville, (301) office; (301) pfk@eqkmrh.com ~ Stacey E. Kight, Esquire Walker & Murphy, LLP 9210 Corporate Boulevard, Suite 210 Rockville, (301) kight.stacey@gmail.com Estate Planning; Elder Law; Probate / Trust Administration; Veterans Benefits Real Estate; Estate Planning; Family Law; General Litigation Estate Planning; Estate Administration; Succession Planning Family Law; Mental Health; Probate; Special Education Intellectual Property (Patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret); General Business; Strategic Alliances General Legal Practice Criminal and General Litigation Insurance Defense (Frederick County) (Anne Arundel, Montgomery, and Prince George s counties) and District of Columbia Admitted in MD, VA, DC, MA Patent practice: worldwide (Eastern Shore counties) (Frederick, Montgomery, and Washington counties) Admitted MD and DC 5

9 Jac Knust, Esquire The Collaborative Law Group Little Patuxent Parkway, Suite 900 Columbia, (410) office; (410) fax Shaun M. Koenig, Esquire Koenig Law Group 47 East All Saints Street Frederick, (301) office; (301) fax Diane Kotkin, Esquire Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law 127 W. Patrick Street Frederick, (240) office; (240) fax Alfred A. Lacer, Esquire Alfred A. Lacer, P.A. PO Box Glen-Mary Farm Road Park Hall, (301) Victor H. Laws, III, Esquire PO Box 75 Salisbury, (410) office (410) fax Jennifer Rylan Lazenby, Esquire Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP 1 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 300 Towson, (410) office; (410) fax jlazenby@wtplaw.com Edward J. Levin, Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax elevin@gfrlaw.com Agricultural (equine, livestock); Business Formation and Organization; Collaborative Legal Services for Family & Business; Wills & Estate Planning; Mediation Services and Standing Examiner Business Formation and Organization; Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Copyrights; Technology Commercialization and Transactions; Venture Capital; Wills & Estates; Business Agricultural Estate Planning and Administration; Agricultural Land Use and Development; Tax Counsel Business Law; Civil Litigation; Real Estate; Wills, Trusts, and Estates Real Estate Transactions and Loan Closings; Land Use, Planning and Zoning; Civil Litigations; Business Organization and Corporate Practice; Wills and Estate Planning and Probate Employment; Real Estate, Business, Trusts & Estates Litigation; Condemnation; and Appellate Practice Real Estate Law (including financing, leasing, purchase and sale, workouts and foreclosures) (Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Carroll, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and Frederick counties) and District of Columbia (Southern ) (Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties) 6

10 Kelcie L. Longaker, Esquire Kelcie Longaker Law, LLC P.O. Box 318 Simpsonville, (443) office and fax Rebekah D. Lusk, Esquire Thienel Law Firm, LLC Harpoon Hill Columbia, (443) direct; (443) fax ~ Randall M. Lutz, Esquire Saul Ewing LLP 500 East Pratt Street, 8th Floor Baltimore, (410) office; (443) mobile; (410) fax M. Chad Malkus, IV Esquire Michael Hodes, LLC 513 Court Lane Cambridge, (410) office; (443) mobile; (410) fax Thomas K. Mallon, Esquire Law Office of Thomas K. Mallon, LLC 1107 Kenilworth Drive, Suite 305 Towson, (410) office; (240) mobile; (410) fax Donna S. Mandl, Esquire 1725 Tower Road Aberdeen, (443) office; (410) fax Kimberly A. Manuelides, Esquire Saul Ewing LLP 500 East Pratt St, 8th Floor Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax Real Estate Transactions; Land Use, Planning & Zoning; Small Business Advising; Liquor Licensing; Local Government Administrative Hearings Civil Litigation, Business and Employment Law; Family Law; Landlord/Tenant; Real Estate; Equine Law Agriculture Law; Environmental Law; Energy Law; Litigation; Nutrient Trading; Clean Water Act Farm Family Planning; Estates and Trusts; Probate; Elder Law; Medicaid Planning; Veteran's Benefits Agriculture; Family Law; and Personal Injury Civil Litigation; Debt Collection Livestock Law; Agritourism; Organic Certification; Land Use; Property Rights; Environmental; Corporate and Partnership Disputes; Construction and Commercial Litigation Admitted in MD and MO (Baltimore City, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, and Washington counties) (Baltimore County) (Harford County) 7

11 Timothy Manuelides, Esquire Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, P.C. 210 W. Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 700 Towson, (410) office Kimm H. Massey, Esquire Law Offices of Kimm Massey 6305 Ivy Lane, Suite 701 Greenbelt, (301) office; (301) fax masseylawfirm.vpweb.com Kathleen Kate J. Masterton, Esquire Law Office of Kathleen J. Masterton, P.C. The Riderwood Building 1107 Kenilworth Drive, Suite 312 Towson, (410) office; (410) fax Jeffrey P. McEvoy, Esquire Jeffrey Patrick McEvoy, P.A. 8 West Third Street Frederick, (301) office; (301) mobile; (301) fax JMcEvoy@mcevoylaw.com Stephen Z. Meehan, Esquire Law Offices of Stephen Z. Meehan 315 High Street, Suite 201 Chestertown, (410) office; (410) fax smeehan@szmattorney.com Justine M. Moreau, Esquire 1830 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, (518) office moreau.justinem@gmail.com Sean T. Morris, Esquire The Morris Law Firm, LLC 4845 Rugby Avenue, Suite 302 Bethesda, (301) office; (301) fax stm@morrisesq.com ~ Environmental Law; Toxic Torts Civil Litigation; Agriculture Law; Automobile Accidents; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Family Law Farm, Equine, Livestock Law; Estate/business planning & succession; Estate & Trust Administration; Agricultural Business Law; Land Use/Preservation/Easements; Administrative Appeals; Regulatory Compliance; Right to Farm; Mediation Services Real Estate; Asset Based Financing; Commercial Law; Estate and Succession Planning; Buy/Sell of business entities and professional practices (including veterinary practices/hospitals) General Civil Practice Real Estate Transactions; Leasing; Land Use & Zoning; Business Formation; Liquor Licensure Business and Real Estate Litigation; Liquor Licensing and Liability; Food, Beverage and Restaurant Law; Real Estate Leasing and Transactions (Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George s counties) and District of Columbia Throughout and beyond (Eastern Shore counties) and District of Columbia Admitted MD, DC, NY 8

12 Stephen A. Oberg, Esquire Council Baradel Kosmerl & Nolan, P.A. P.O. Box 2289 Annapolis, (410) office; (410) fax ~ Cathleen Cogan Opel, Esquire Saul Ewing LLP, Special Counsel 500 East Pratt St, 8th Floor Baltimore, (410) office; (443) mobile Sara Lynn Reznicek, Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax Pamela K. Riewerts, Esquire U.S. Registered Patent Attorney Oliver and Grimsley, LLC 502 Washington Avenue, Suite 605 Towson, (443) office; (443) fax George F. Ritchie, IV, Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) office; (410) mobile ~ Brian W. Ritter, Jr., Esquire Gallant Fox Lane, Suite 120 Bowie, (301) office; (301) fax Anne-Herbert Rollins, Esquire Miles and Stockbridge, PC 30 Patrick Street, Suite 600 Frederick, (301) office; (301) mobile; (301) fax Business Law; Commercial Finance Estates and Trusts Patent; Trademark; Copyright; Trade Secret; Business Technology; General Counsel Commercial and Civil Litigation; Environmental Litigation; Intellectual Property Elder Law; Estate and Probate Business; Commercial and Residential Real Estate (contracts, leases, transactional sales & purchases); Planning and Zoning; Municipal Law; Administrative Law; Estate and Probate; Real Estate Tax & Exemption Appeals; Litigation (Anne Arundel and Calvert counties) Admitted in MD, NY, NJ, DC Patents: U.S./foreign available (Baltimore, Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Washington counties); US District Court of MD; and Tax Court 9

13 Ann Marie Rotz, Esquire Meyers, Young & Grove, P.A. P.O. Box 1267 Hagerstown, (301) ext14 office; (301) fax ~ Debra G. Schubert, Esquire 502 Baltimore Avenue, First Floor Towson, (410) office; (410) fax Brooke Schumm, III, Esquire Registered U.S. Patent Attorney Daneker, McInitire, Schumm, Prince, Manning & Widmann, PC 1 North Charles Street, Suite 2450 Baltimore, (410) direct; fax schummb@danmclaw.com William D. Shaughnessy Jr., Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) direct; (410) fax wshaughnessy@gfrlaw.com Karen L.G. Smith, Esquire Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law 127 W. Patrick Street Frederick, (240) office; (240) fax ksmith@offitkurman.com Seymour B. Stern, Esquire Offit Kurman, Attorneys At Law 127 W. Patrick Street Frederick, (240) office; (240) fax sstern@offitkurman.com Harry C. Storm, Esquire Lerch, Early & Brewer 3 Bethesda metro Center, Suite 460 Bethesda, (301) office; (301) fax hcstorm@lerchearly.com Marvin L. Szymkowicz, Esquire Savit & Symkowicz, LLP 4520 East West Highway, Suite 700 Bethesda, (301) office; (301) fax mls@savitlaw.com ~ Business (profit and nonprofits); Commercial and Residential Real Estate; Estate Planning and Administration; Mediation Elder Law; Estates & Trusts; Guardianships General Corporate; International Agriculture Matters; Commercial Litigation; Bankruptcy; Intellectual Property; Patent; Trademark; Copyright; Trade Secret Real Estate; Land Use, Planning & Zoning; Agriculture Preservation Easements Agricultural Estate Planning and Administration; Agricultural Land Use and Development; Tax Counsel Agricultural Estate Planning and Administration; Agricultural Land Use and Development; Tax Counsel Business Law General Civil Practice Estate Planning; Probate; Commercial Litigation (Allegany, Frederick and Washington counties); and Pennsylvania (Adams, Franklin, and Fulton counties) (Baltimore and Harford counties) Admitted in MD, IL, CA & FL (Montgomery and Prince George s counties) 10

14 Kathleen J.P. Tabor, Esquire Law Office of Kathleen JP Tabor, LLC 7814 Grassy Garth Elkridge, (443) office; (442) fax or Joseph Mason Weeda, Esquire Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC 600 New Hampshire Ave. N.W., Suite 500 Washington, DC (202) direct; (202) fax ~ Rand D. Weinberg, Esquire Law Offices of Rand D. Weinberg, LLC Of Counsel to Miles & Stockbridge, P.C. 15 North Court Street Frederick, (301) or (301) office Stephen C. Winter, Esquire Royston, Mueller, McLean & Reid, LLP 102 West Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 600 Towson, (410) office; (410) fax Margaret M. Witherup, Esquire Gordon Feinblatt LLC 233 E. Redwood Street Baltimore, (410) direct; (410) mobile; (410) fax Becky Lundberg Witt, Esquire Staff Attorney, Community Law Center, Inc Keswick Road, Suite 200 Baltimore, (410) office; (410) fax or communitylaw.org or urbanagriculturelawproject Agricultural (Equine, Livestock, Crops); Agritourism; Business and Non-Profit Formation and Organization; Contracts; Collaborative Legal Services for Family and Business; Wills, POAs, Advanced Medical Directives; Mediation Services Crop Insurance Litigation; Administrative matters before the USDA, FDA, and State agencies Real Estate Public Finance; Agricultural Preservation; Corporate-Business Law; Business Litigation; Estate Litigation; State and Local Government matters Environmental Law; Environmental Litigation; Business Litigation Urban gardening; urban farms Community Law Center (accepts nonprofit clients) and U.S. District Court, MD (Frederick County) (Baltimore City) 11

15 District of Columbia Attorneys Attorney Contact Info Practice Areas States & Jurisdictions Gary H. Baise, Esquire Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz PC 600 New Hamphsire Ave., NW, Ste. 500 Washington, DC (202) ~ Charles M. Delacruz, Esquire VP, GC, & Secretary/National Grain & Feed Assoc I Street NW, Suite 1003 Washington, DC (202) office; (202) fax cdelacruz@ngfa.org Barbara J. Kraft, Esquire 2947 Upton Street, NW Washington, DC (202) or (202) bjkraft1@gmail.com Environmental-Agricultural Litigation (Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act, FIFRA, common law nuisance and trespass). Represents Agricultural Retailers Assoc. General counsel to agri-business trade associations Labor and Employment National Admitted in D.C. and Indiana National District of Columbia Specialty Services and MSBA Associate Members Contact Info Services States Thomas F. Filbert, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Department of Agriculture 50 Harry S Truman Parkway Annapolis, (410) direct; (410) fax thomas.filbert@.gov Dept. of Agriculture State of L. Paul Goeringer, Research Associate Center for Agriculture & Natural Resource 2200 Symons Hall College Park, (301) pgoeringer@arec.umd.edu Mark C. Haines, DVM, MS, MPH P.O. Box 37 Libertytown, (301) mhaineshi@gmail.com Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy Veterinarian MSBA Associate Member J.D. candidate, 2015 Univ of Baltimore School of Law and Oklahoma n/a 12

16 Justin P. Hayes, Esquire Assistant Attorney General MD Department of Agriculture 50 Harry S Truman Parkway Annapolis, (410) office; (410) fax justin.hayes@.gov Andrew D. Hirsch, President Aligned Business & IP Strategies 906 Ridge Drive McLean, Virginia (571) office; (202) mobile; (240) fax andrewhirsch@verizon.net or andrewhirsch@abips.biz Kirsten M. Koepsel, J.D., L.L.M. Consultant, Policy Issues 915 S. Washington St., #201 Alexandria, Virginia (571) mobile kirstenpatents@mac.com Grace H. Kraemer, Esquire Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation 1200 K Street, NW Washington, DC ext Kraemer.grace@pbgc.gov Teresa K. LaMaster, JD Executive Director, MPowering the State Advisor, Institutional Effectiveness University of 220 N. Arch Street, Room Baltimore, MD tlamaster@umaryland.edu Joseph S. Michael, Esquire 33 West Washington Street, Room 302 Hagerstown, (240) office; (240) fax jooldstone@me.com John B. Norris, III, Esquire 175 Main Street Prince Frederick, (410) office; (410) fax norrisjb@co.cal.md.us Dept. of Agriculture Business and Intellectual Property Law and Strategy Agriculture, Animal Law, Intellectual Property ERISA; Employee Benefits; Labor and Employment Law University of Deputy State s Attorney Washington County County Attorney Calvert County Gov t State of and Virginia, District of Columbia, and Virginia Federal Government Washington County, Calvert County, 13

17 Valerie Nowottnick, ACP/Owner Paralegal Consultants PO Box 2224 Prince Frederick, (240) Anita Lee Parlow, Esquire A.L. Parlow & Associates, LLC Washington, DC (2020) office; (202) fax Saschane M. Stephenson 1516 December Drive, Apt. 404 Silver Spring, (301) Janelle Sherfy Straszheim, Esquire Chief Fiduciary Officer, Trust Division Associate General Counsel for Trust Sandy Spring Trust Georgia Avenue Olney, (301) office Paralegal Services Corporate Social Responsibility, Crisis Management, Response and Recovery, Mediation and Facilitation MSBA Associate Member Estate & Trust administration (including specialty asset administration MoCo Ag Reserve farm properties and trust-owned working farms) and District of Columbia Consultancies: Domestic and International Mediation: and District of Columbia n/a Sandy Spring Bank, Trust Division 14

18 MSBA Special Committee on Agriculture Law Co-Chairs Kimberly Manuelides Kathleen J.P. Tabor Treasurer Brooke Schumm, III Secretary Valerie Nowottnick * * * * * * Sub-committee Chairs Legislative George Ritchie Case Law & Regulatory Maggie Witherup and Tom Filbert Program & Education Paul Goeringer Publications & Communications Kevin Elden Membership & Young Lawyers Mason Weeda 15

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