Firm News

Silverman Thompson associate Jason Wasserman has been named the Chair-Elect of the Young Lawyer’s Division (YLD) of the Bar Association of Baltimore City (BABC). By taking a leadership role in the first Bar Association formed in the State of Maryland and one of the oldest in the Nation, Mr. Wasserman will strive to further the…

Silverman Thompson has recovered a policy maximum of $1.25 Million for a 54 year old New York woman who was critically injured while a passenger on a motorcycle on a Pennsylvania highway. The collision was caused when the driver of the motorcycle attempted to pass an SUV in a no-pass-zone, the SUV turned left and…

Silverman Thompson criminal defense attorney Brian G. Thompson convinced prosecutors in Baltimore County to drop a highly publicized animal cruelty prosecution. Initially, the Baltimore County Police held a press conference to tout the arrest. Please click here to view the entire front page story in today’s Baltimore Sun.

The Baltimore Top 10 website has named Silverman Thompson the top law firm in Baltimore, Maryland in three out-of-four practice areas ranked by the site.

Editorial: A steep price for bad policing

The firm has recently settled a significant medical malpractice case against a doctor for $3.5 million. During a neurosurgery procedure in which a spinal cord stimulator was replaced, the defendant doctor negligently damaged our client’s spinal cord at the T7-8 level. Our client was left permanently paralyzed. Another medical malpractice firm originally investigated the case…

Silverman Thompson partners Steven D. Silverman, Brian G. Thompson, Andrew G. Slutkin, Monica Scherer and Andrew C. White and associates Jamison White, Jason Wasserman and Avery Strachan were among the attorneys listed as “super lawyers” in the prestigious and selective Maryland Super Lawyers 2010 magazine and published in Baltimore Magazine. The eight Silverman Thompson “super…

A Baltimore City Jury today awarded a Missouri resident $400,000.00 against the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort, Spa and Marina. The jury found that the Hyatt negligent for failing to properly maintain its volleyball court and causing our client serious and permanent injury. The Hyatt offered $45,000.00 to settle the case prior to trial.

After several years of hotly contested litigation in both Maryland State and Federal courts, Silverman Thompson has successfully resolved the litigation in a case involving the death of a juvenile committed by a Maryland Judge to a juvenile facility. The juvenile (17) died at the hands of “staff” at the facility who were administering a…

After a five hour hearing, a Circuit Court for Baltimore City Judge dismissed all adult criminal charges against 16 year old Emmanuel Miller and remanded the case to Juvenile Court. Miller, represented by partner Steven D. Silverman, was charged in the highly publicized and alleged racially motivated beating of an elderly African-American fisherman. The ruling…