Firm News

In a case concluded yesterday by partners Andrew Slutkin and Jamison White, a Baltimore jury awarded $1.42M against a doctor who removed the wrong ovary and unnecessarily took out a fallopian tube tube during surgery. After seven sonograms showing a right-side ovarian cyst that was potentially cancerous, the doctor negligently removed the healthy ovary. The…

Silverman Thompson partners Monica Scherer, Steve Silverman, Andy Slutkin, Brian Thompson, Andy White, Jamison White and associates Jennifer Fox, Steve Kelly, Ned Parent, Amanda Schwartzkopf, Anna Skelton, Creston Smith and Jason Wasserman were among the attorney recognized as “Super Lawyers” published in Baltimore Magazine this month. Andy Slutkin was also recognized as one of the…

Silverman Thompson partners Andrew Slutkin and Alex Brown won a significant verdict against UBS Financial Services and one of it’s brokers, Gordon Witherspoon. In reaching a $1,782,898.00 verdict, the Baltimore City Jury found fraud and awarded punitive damages against a UBS financial adviser.

In the matter of State v. Theodore Dargan, the Maryland Court of Specials Appeals reversed the conviction of a defendant who had served nearly four years of a twenty-five year sentence without the possibility of parole. Ms. Murphy argued that the police violated the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right to remain silent when they re-interviewed him…

Veteran criminal defense attorney Creston Smith is profiled in the ABA Journal for his role in the creation of the CBS legal drama “Made in Jersey’. In appreciation for his contributions to the show, one of the characters will bear his name.

Partner Andy Slutkin has been named by the National Law Journal 2012 Edition of Top Rated Lawyers for his exceptional work in the area of personal injury litigation. Mr. Slutkin is rated AV Preeminent by his peers and also teaches medical malpractice at the University of Baltimore School of Law.

On June 15, 2012 Silverman Thompson member Joe Murphy became the twenty third recipient of the H. Vernon Eney Endowment Fund Award. The award is presented by the Maryland Bar Foundation to an individual who has “demonstrated outstanding leadership in working to improve government and the administration of justice”. Past winners include U.S. Senator Benjamin…

Silverman Thompson Attorneys Andrew G. Slutkin and Jamison G. White recently settled a medical malpractice case for $4 million on behalf of a 48 year-old man who suffered a spinal cord injury following his health care providers’ failure to timely diagnose and treat a herniated disk in his neck that was pressing on his spinal…

Today judges from throughout Maryland assembled for the statewide meeting of the Maryland Judicial Conference. At the conference the Maryland Access to Justice Commission presented Judge Murphy with it’s highest award: Judge of the Year 2012. The Maryland Access to Justice Awards recognize individuals, programs and entities in the State that improve the ability of…

In a decision published today by the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, the Court in Allen v. State overturned the defendant’s conviction on appeal. The Court agreed with the appellant’s challenge to the circuit court’s instruction to the jury with respect to “anti-CSI effect”.