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For the fifth consecutive year, Andrew Greenwald has been selected by his peers to be included in the upcoming edition of The Best Lawyers in America in medical negligence and personal injury.  Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined for nearly 25 years.  The current edition of Best Lawyers is based on more than two million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country.  Best Lawyers also conducts thousands of telephone interviews with leading attorneys throughout its balloting process. 

Andrew Greenwald has also been listed as a Super Lawyer in Maryland and the District of Columbia .  He has been asked to co-counsel in the following states:  North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Virginia, Georgia, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington State.

Andrew Greenwald has been named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America and Superlawyers.

Andrew Greenwald has served as co-chair of the Medical Malpractice Information Exchange Group of the American Association of Justice, as well chairman of the Tort Section of ATLA.

Mr. Greenwald was chosen one of the top lawyers in the Washington D.C. area by Washingtonian Magazine. He is named Who's Who in America , Who's Who in American Law and Who's Who in the World. Mr. Greenwald was elected co-chair of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, (a group that educates lawyers that represent children with brain injuries, cerebral palsy, and other neurological disorders as a result of medical negligence).

Mr. Greenwald is a founding shareholder in the litigation group of Joseph Greenwald and Laake, P.A. He conducts and oversees litigation of medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury and other civil litigation matters. Mr. Greenwald has handled some of the largest medical malpractice cases in Maryland . He has handled 29 cases where he has obtained verdicts or settlements of more than one million dollars.

Mr. Greenwald has argued cases before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, Maryland Court of Appeals , United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He is an active member of numerous bar associations.

Mr. Greenwald has been invited to speak to nationwide legal audiences at the American Association for Justice meetings and conventions as well as to various state trial lawyer and bar associations. He has given more than one hundred lectures and seminars on various legal topics to such organizations. Mr. Greenwald has also contributed numerous articles to national legal publications and contributed to several legal instructional tape series.

Recent and Other Experience Includes Representation Of:

• Representation of clients in thirty-eight cases with recoveries of $1,000,000 or more.
• Representation of client in shoulder dystocia medical malpractice case with a verdict of $2,500,000.
• Settlement in obstetrical malpractice case of $3 million
• Settlement of $4 million in an obstetrical brain damage case involving a feto-maternal bleed
• Settlement of $1,043,000 in a meningitis case
• Representation of a client in an obstetrical malpractice case which resulted in $5,000,000 settlement
• Representation of a client in an obstetrical malpractice case which resulted in a $2,500,000 settlement
• Representation of client in one of the largest Health Claims Arbitration awards in Maryland , in a medical negligence case under Maryland Arbitration Statute - $5,500,000
• Representation of client in one of the largest Health Claims Arbitration awards in Maryland , in an obstetrical medical negligence case under Maryland Arbitration Statute - $5,400,000
• Representation of client in wrongful death medical malpractice case with a verdict of $6,000,000
• Co-Counsel in Murel v. Baltimore City Court, argued in U.S. Supreme Court, challenging constitutionality of Maryland 's Defective Delinquent Statute

Andrew Greenwald attended college at the University of Wisconsin where he graduated in 1964. He attended law school at Georgetown University where he graduated in 1967.