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After a six day trial, Silverman Thompson criminal defense attorney Creston Smith won an acquittal for his client on all charges, including Murder in the First Degree, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. The twelve person jury deliberated for only ten minutes before returning the “Not Guilty” verdicts on the five count indictment.

For Immediate Release: Partners Steven D. Silverman, Brian G. Thompson, Andrew G. Slutkin, Monica Scherer, Andrew C. White, and associate Jamison White were among the attorneys listed as “super lawyers” in the prestigious and selective Maryland Super Lawyers 2009 magazine and also appearing in Baltimore Magazine. The six Silverman Thompson “super lawyers” were chosen by…

Partners Steven D. Silverman, Andrew C. White and Andrew G. Slutkin have been selected by The American Trial Lawyers Association (The “ATLA”) for inclusion in The ATLA 2008-2009 Top 100 Trial Lawyers for the State of Maryland. For Mr. Silverman and Mr. Slutkin, this marks the second consecutive year they have been recognized. The Top…

Silverman Thompson family law specialist and partner Monica Scherer overcame the recommendation a “best interest” attorney and convinced an Anne Arundel County, Maryland Circuit Court Judge to grant joint custody and equal access to the father two young children. The Judge considered three days of testimony and argument prior to discounting the recommendation of the…

Silverman Thompson criminal defense attorney Steven D. Silverman appeared before a national audience today on the Dr. Phil Show today to help educate the public in preventing family members from being lured into dangerous cults. Silverman, who is in the midst of representing a high profile cult victim charged with first degree murder, was joined…

After listening to four days of testimony, a federal jury awarded over $800,000.00 to a Baltimore County women injured by a commercial truck owned by Kaplan Trucking of Pennsylvania. The verdict, taken by the Honorable William D. Quarles, Jr., was nearly twice the amount offered by the defendant prior to trial. Andrew Slutkin and Jamison…

In appealing a significant medical malpractice case tried by another Maryland law firm, Silverman Thompson won a reversal and a new day in court for a Maryland plaintiff. In the published opinion of Waldt, et al. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, et al., our firm reversed a ruling by a Circuit Court for…

Silverman Thompson medical malpractice lawyers Andrew Slutkin and Jamison White recently consulted on an article in the September, 2008 issue of Exhibit A magazine. Published by the Maryland Daily Record, Exhibit A sought out our lawyer’s expertise on the subject of autopsies in Maryland. A copy of the article can be viewed here.

On June 27, 2008, Silverman Thompson partner Andrew C. White convinced U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz to ignore the federal sentencing guidelines in a mail fraud case in United States District Court in Baltimore, Maryland. Silverman Thompson’s client was a senior former official at a Maryland bank who had pleaded guilty to engineering a…

Silverman Thompson partner Andrew C. White, a leading federal crimes defense attorney and former Assistant United States Attorney is regularly asked by local and national media to consult and comment on pending Maryland and national federal criminal investigations and indictments. Recently, he was consulted by the Baltimore Sun and quoted in an article pertaining to…