JGL Partner Brian Markovitz and his daughter Kaley joined her classmates to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) 2023 Annual Gala Mid-Atlantic region.
The Student Visionaries of the Year Campaign funds support the LLS mission of curing blood cancers. The total raised was $3,033,698. Joseph Greenwald and Laake PA was a Hero Circle contributor.
This week Mr. Markovitz, pictured here with Jacklyn DeMar, Director of Legal Education at Taxpayers Against Fraud, testified in support of companion bills Senate Bill 666 and House Bill 773, which would strengthen the Maryland False Claims Act and the Maryland False Health Claims Act.
If passed, the bills will allow whistleblowers to continue to pursue legal action against companies and individuals when the state government is unable to do so. The bills also require that certain penalties under the law be at least $5,000. “This is a very important piece of legislation. The Maryland Attorney General’s Office doesn’t have unlimited resources to pursue all the fraud that is committed against the state. These bills will allow whistleblowers to continue with meritorious cases when the government simply does not have the resources to continue the fight and will return more money stolen from all taxpayers in the state of Maryland,” Mr. Markovitz explained.
SB 666 and HB 773 are available here, and Mr. Markovitz’s written testimony is available here (SB 666 (PDF) and HB 773 (PDF)).
Samuel Morse is an attorney at Joseph Greenwald and Laake PA. Samuel represents inmates with serious medical issues who have been denied treatment and those who have suffered deprivations of their civil rights while incarcerated.
Samuel also represents inmates and their families who seek release under the Medical Parole statute in Maryland. One of his recent medical parole cases is detailed in this recent article in the Baltimore Banner, which examined the medical parole landscape in Maryland.
Represented Successor Personal Representative at trial and successfully defended judgment on appeal against one of the decedent’s children who forged signatures on bank signature cards.
A longtime Montgomery County Planning Board planning director was fired, and she filed for wrongful termination. The case recently settled.
The civil lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that former HSEMA employee Patrice White was abruptly fired, and that her termination amounts to discrimination based on her age and race.
Patrice White is represented by Michal Shinnar, Senior Counsel at Joseph Greenwald and Laake PA.
JGL Senior Counsel Michal Shinnar was interviewed and quoted in the February 13, 2022 Baltimore Banner article “Internal emails detail pressure state police troopers faced to drive up traffic ticket numbers”.
JGL obtained a groundbreaking decision establishing that Maryland workers can litigate breach-of-contract claims on a class basis in a suit on behalf of 100 newspaper distributors.
JGL partner David Bulitt will be interviewed on Fox News Thursday morning, February 9 about 11:15
The Appellate Court of Maryland largely affirmed the decision of the Prince George’s County Council, sitting as the District Council, in approving a Conceptual Site Plan for the firm’s client’s development in Hyattsville. City of Hyattsville v. Prince George’s Cnty. Council, 254 Md. App. 1 (2022).Supreme Court Upholds Zoning Amendment
Please join JGL partner Veronica Nannis for next week’s virtual webinar, Could My Client Be A Whistleblower?
This special webinar is brought to you by the Maryland Association of Justice (MAJ) and co-sponsored by Joseph Greenwald and Laake PA.
Anyone can attend!
This is an introductory webinar to the False Claims Act.
For any attorney who has wondered about this area of law, or who may have, and not know they have, potential cases, there is something for everyone in this webinar.
We will walk through what the False Claims Act is and how it can be used. We will also discuss spotting a potential FCA case – including when evaluating medical negligence, personal injury, nursing home, product liability and employment cases.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 at 9:00am – virtual webinar. More information and to register click here: https://www.mdforjustice.com/?pg=events&evAction=showDetail&eid=252197