ROSTER
Education
Towson University, B.S. , summa cum laude (1981)Emory University, School of Law, J.D. , with honors (1984)
Practice Areas
- Trial and Appellate Litigation
- Administrative Law
- Government
- Banking & Finance
- Education Law
- Real Estate Litigation
- Construction
Memberships/Affiliations
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association
- Bar Associations of Baltimore City and Baltimore County
- Federal Bar Association (MD Chapter) (First Vice President and former Chair of the Board of Governors)
- Towson University Alumni Association (President Emeritus and Member of Board of Directors)
- Lawyers’ Campaign Against Hunger, Advisory Committee
- Emory University Law School Council (Former Member)
- Counsel to the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement - the Commission was created by Congress to investigate the national savings and loan crisis of the 1980's and to recommend reforms to Congress and the President. The Commission issued its report, Origins and Causes of the S&L Debacle: A Blueprint for Reform, to President Clinton and the Congress in July of 1993. (1992-1993)
Awards and Honors
- Order of the Coif, Emory University School of Law
- Woodruff Fellowship in Law, Emory University School of Law
- Most Outstanding Student Award, Emory University School of Law (1984)
- Towson University Alumni Association Spirit of the University Award (2000)
- Selected for inclusion in Maryland Super Lawyers (2007-2010) - Business Litigation
- Towson University 2007 Dean's Recognition Award for the College of Liberal Arts
- Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers 2008, 2009 and 2010 Corporate Counsel Edition
- Listed as a "local litigation star" in the 2008-2011 editions of Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
- Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation
- Selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America, an affiliate of U.S. News & World Report.
Bar Admissions
- Maryland Court of Appeals
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Gerard J. Gaeng
Partner
The Chair of the firm's Litigation Department, Gerry Gaeng has handled successfully some of the region's largest and most complex litigation matters, in both state and federal trial and appellate courts. He concentrates in complex business and government litigation, including class-action defense, financial institution litigation, administrative law, real estate and construction litigation, and education law. A former federal judicial law clerk, Maryland Assistant Attorney General, and counsel to a congressionally created commission that investigated the nation's savings and loan crisis of the 1980's, Mr. Gaeng has been recognized in a short list of Maryland's "local litigation stars" in every annual edition of Benchmark: America's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys, where clients have praised him for "astounding results" and described him as "simply the best." Similarly, he has been listed in every edition of Maryland Super Lawyers and in the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers in America.
