Firm News

On October 20, 2020, just 13 days after oral argument, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland affirmed the dismissal of STSW’s client Burkard Homes LLC from a lawsuit involving title to certain real property it owned in Howard County, Maryland. Appellants, relatives of former owners of the real property in the chain of title…

In recent months – as the COVID-19 pandemic forced innumerous small businesses to close in Maryland and across the country – many such small business find themselves embroiled in another struggle: a war with their insurance companies. Specifically, many small businesses have had to take their insurers to court to enforce coverage for business interruption…

On September 14, Judge Bennett of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ordered that Aberdeen City Council as Administrating Authority for the Northeast Scotland Pension (“Aberdeen”) shall serve as lead plaintiff in a putative class action against Under Armour relating to the sale of securities that has been pending since 2017. The…

The following eight STSW lawyers have been recognized in the 2021 Edition of the Best Lawyers in America: Steven D. Silverman, Brian G. Thompson, Andrew G. Slutkin, Andrew C. White, Richard M. Karceski, Monica Scherer and William Sinclair. One of STSW’s lawyer this year also received “Lawyer of the Year:” Andrew G. Slutkin for Medical…

STSW partner Steven Leitess was appointed to the Uniform Law Commission’s Study Committee on State Governance During Public Health Emergencies. The ULC study committee was formed in response to the COVID19 pandemic crisis that closed the United States economy and the need for clear and consistent guidance in key areas of large-scale crisis management The…

A federal district court judge agreed with STSW’s Andrew White in a hotly contested motions hearing regarding the appropriate bounds for a federal restitution order in a bribery case. STSW’s client, a West Point graduate and a contracting officer on several large engineering programs at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, steered several very large sub-contracts to…

Silverman Thompson attorneys Avery Barton Strachan and Kerri L. Smith drafted a Brief in Amicus Curiae on behalf of Maryland Multi-Housing Association, Inc. (MMHA), a leading organization for residential housing providers in Maryland. In Pettiford v. Next Generation Trust Service (No. 34, Sept. Term 2019), the Court of Appeals was tasked with deciding whether the…

Last year, Silverman Thompson attorneys Andrew G. Slutkin and Ethan S. Nochumowitz obtained a $4.85 million jury verdict in Federal Court against Overhead Door Corporation, the country’s largest manufacturer and distributor of commercial and residential garage doors. In the case, the jury found, among other things, that Overhead Door negligently designed the packaging for its…

Over the past eight-plus years, litigation has been pending against co-defendants Long & Foster/Creig Northrop and STSW client Lakeview Title in Maryland’s state and federal courts for supposed kickbacks paid by Lakeview to Long & Foster. The state court action, styled Larocca v. Creig Northrop Team, P.C., et al., resulted in the trial court striking…

On March 12, 2020, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in the case of Dent, et. al. v. the NFL. That same panel had previously issued a ruling in the matter overturning the trial court’s order dismissing the case on preemption grounds. 902 F.3d 1109…