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The MEDLaw Legal
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Howard A. Janet
Howard Janet has been representing plaintiffs in complex civil litigation for
more than 30 years in states across the country. His efforts on behalf
of clients have repeatedly produced record-breaking verdicts and
settlements and have led to a national reputation for helping
individuals and communities in three key areas:
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Medical malpractice, with a special emphasis on handling cases
involving brain injury and cerebral palsy often from mismanaged
labor and delivery
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Pharmaceutical and medical device product liability
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Environmental litigation
He has been recognized nationally by the legal profession's most respected peer
review organizations: Martindale-Hubbell® (AV), Best Lawyers in America® and
Super Lawyers®. He has also been recognized in the media as a leading trial lawyer with
cases being reported on by USA Today, Dateline NBC, Jet Magazine, the Washington Post, the
Baltimore Sun and affiliates of ABC, NBC and CBS among others.
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Kenneth M. Suggs
Kenneth M. Suggs, a principal in the firm,
has leadership roles in the firm's medical negligence and
pharmaceutical departments. A tireless champion of consumers for
almost 30 years, Mr. Suggs has achieved remarkable successes for
his clients along the way to becoming one of the country's
leading trial lawyers.
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Robert K.
Jenner
Robert K. Jenner brings to the Medlaw
Legal Team more than 25 years experience representing injured
consumers nation-wide against the manufacturers of dangerous
pharmaceutical drugs, defective medical devices, tainted blood products
and contaminated food. Mr. Jenner leads the firm's Mass Tort Division,
and has assembled a team of attorneys, paralegals and health
care professionals dedicated to prosecuting claims on behalf of
injured consumers. Mr. Jenner has a national reputation as a
tireless leader fighting against the world's manufacturers of
dangerous drugs, and has recovered tens of millions of dollars
for his clients.
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Stephen Offutt
Stephen Offutt
has been a trial attorney since
graduating Law School in 1988 and is now a partner with the
firm. Before joining Janet, Jenner & Suggs, Mr. Offutt had
successfully tried over 100 jury trials in 15-20 different
venues throughout the Maryland and DC area involving claims of
serious personal injury. Mr. Offutt is a member of the Maryland
State Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the
Minnesota Bar, the District of Columbia Trial Lawyers
Association and the Maryland Association for Justice. He has
been recognized by his peers for inclusion in Maryland’s
SuperLawyers® for the past three years.
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Giles H. Manley, M.D., J. D., F.A.C.O.G.,
Of Counsel
Dr. Manley brings to the Med Law Legal Team more than 20 years
experience in the medical profession. As a Board Certified OB/GYN with
well over 2,000 deliveries, he is extremely knowledgeable in all
areas of obstetrics. He has extensive medical-legal experience,
and has served as an expert witness many times in both
deposition and trial, both from a plaintiff and defense
perspective.
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Dov Apfel
Dov Apfel is a partner with the firm and is known nationally as a “child advocate”, who concentrates his practice in cerebral palsy and birth trauma litigation and obstetrical malpractice claims involving birth injuries and children with neurological and intellectual disabilities. Mr. Apfel is regularly contacted by families and lawyers throughout the United States to assist them with the evaluation of standard of care and causation issues that arise in cerebral palsy and birth trauma litigation and potential obstetrical malpractice claims.
Mr. Apfel was named one of the Best Lawyers in America and he was listed in Washingtonian Magazine as one of the top lawyers in the Washington area. Fortune magazine featured Mr. Apfel as one of America’s Premier Lawyers.
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John C. Hensley, Jr.
During his 18 years as a trial attorney, Mr. Hensley has
been privileged to represent individuals and families dealing
with the devastating consequences of medical negligence,
dangerous products, automobile and trucking crashes, and work
place accidents. Prior to joining the Medlaw Legal Team, Mr.
Hensley was Managing Partner of a successful North Carolina
based trial firm with an established reputation for aggressive
and effective legal representation. Mr. Hensley has tried many
jury trials involving serious injuries and damages in the State
and Federal courts of North Carolina and has represented clients
in throughout the mid-AAJntic region.
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Gerald D. Jowers, Jr.
Mr. Jowers’ focuses his practice on the representation of
victims of medical malpractice and patients who have been
injured by defective pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He is
admitted to practice before all courts in the state of South
Carolina, the United States District Court for the District of
South Carolina (2002), and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
(2003). Additionally, he has been admitted to practice pro hac
vice in numerous states throughout the country.
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Sharon R. Guzejko
Sharon R. Guzejko is an associate with the firm who concentrates
her practice on representing persons injured by serious medical
negligence, cancer misdiagnosis and birth trauma resulting in
cerebral palsy. She brings to the Med Law Legal Team experience
representing clients in a general trial practice, including
medical negligence cases, personal injury claims, and estate
administration.
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Francis "Brink" Hinson
Francis "Brink" Hinson is an associate with
the firm, focusing his practice in commercial litigation. He joined
Janet, Jenner & Suggs in 2007 after serving as a law clerk for the
Honorable Ralph King Anderson, Jr. on the South Carolina Court of
Appeals.
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Hal Kleinman
Mr. Kleinman’s practice focuses on the area of mass torts
and class actions representing of victims of dangerous and
defective pharmaceutical products and medical devices, as well
as victims of food poisoning. He is admitted to practice before
all courts in the states of Illinois and Pennsylvania, the
United States District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois, United States District Court for the Eastern District
of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the District
of Nebraska, United States Court of Federal Claims, Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals and Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Tara J. Posner
Tara Posner became a member of the Med Law Legal
following her graduation from the University of Maryland School
of Law.
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Brian Ketterer
Brian Ketterer is a trial attorney who focuses his practice in pharmaceutical drugs, products liability, and catastrophic personal injury cases.
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Elisha Hawk
Ms. Hawk is an associate with the firm who focuses her practice on complex products liability and mass tort litigation.
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Justin A. Browne
Mr. Browne is an associate focusing his practice on complex product
liability cases and mass tort litigation in state and federal courts
nationwide. He joined the firm after managing a solo practice and
working for litigation firms in Baltimore. He previously interned
with the Honorable Richard D. Bennett of the U.S. District Court for
the District of Maryland and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
He also worked for a non-profit organization while a law student.
Prior to law school, Mr. Browne worked in the pharmaceutical and
medical device industry.
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Joyce Elizabeth Jones
Joyce Elizabeth Jones is an associate with the firm, concentrating her practice on representing persons injured by serious medical negligence, cancer misdiagnosis, and birth trauma resulting in cerebral palsy. Ms. Jones joined the firm first as a law clerk while attending law school and has since returned to the firm as an associate attorney.
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Ace McBride
Mr. McBride is a trial attorney whose practice focuses on representing patients and families that have been injured due to medical negligence. Before joining the firm, Mr. McBride spent approximately five years defending health care providers in medical malpractice lawsuits.
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Jessica H. Meeder
Ms. Meeder is an associate who focuses her practice on complex product liability cases and mass tort litigation in state and federal courts nationwide. Prior to joining the firm, she worked for several large defense firms in the Baltimore area.
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Lindsey M. Craig
M. Craig is an associate with the firm concentrating her practice on complex product liability cases and mass tort litigation, in state and federal courts nationwide. Ms. Craig joined the firm after graduating from law school in 2010.
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Leah K. Barron
Ms. Barron is an associate focusing her practice on environmental and toxic tort litigation. Prior to joining the firm, she worked at a Baltimore-based plaintiff’s firm, worked in the field of public health and environmental policy for a national non-profit organization, and taught high school Government.
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Steven J. German, Of Counsel
Steven J. German practices in complex litigation, concentrating in the areas of environmental, products liability and mass tort. Mr. German has served leadership roles in federal and state actions, including nationwide and multi-district litigation.
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Joel M. Rubenstein, Of
Counsel
Joel M. Rubenstein is a founding partner of the law firm of German Rubenstein LLP. Mr. Rubenstein serves Of Counsel with Janet, Jenner & Suggs in complex litigation concentrating in the areas of environmental and toxic tort.
With Janet, Jenner & Suggs, Mr. Rubenstein’s most recent toxic hazard case involves the representation of plaintiffs in Spears et al. v. Chrysler et al., an environmental class action concerning a plume of contaminated groundwater that has caused vapor intrusion to hundreds of properties in Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Rubenstein also represents plaintiffs in Sher, et al. v. Raytheon Company, et al., an environmental class action lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of property owners and individuals who have been exposed to contaminants such as trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and 1,4-dioxane through groundwater contamination from a Raytheon plant in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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Thomas G. Wilson, Of Counsel
Thomas G. Wilson, who serves Of Counsel to Janet, Jenner & Suggs, is a trial lawyer with 25 years experience with a successful law practice in Charleston, West Virginia. He has represented people in cases involving medical malpractice, pharmaceutical products liability, vaccine injuries, serious workplace and personal injuries and matters of employment discrimination during his career.
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