• Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America.

• Elected co-chairman of the Medical Malpractice Information Exchange Group of the American Association of Justice.

• For the fifth consecutive year, JGL shareholder 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 2 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.
   
• TOP LAWYER recognized by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the Washington metropolitan area top Personal Injury lawyers.  
  
  
• Former Co-Chair of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). The group's focus is to educate the lawyers that represent children suffering from cerebral palsy, irreversible brain damage, and other neurological disorders that resulted from medical negligence. 

• Formerly elected co-chairman of the Medical Negligence Information Group of the American Association of Justice.

Some Verdicts and Settlements

• Obstetrical Malpractice Settlement of $3 million

• Obstetrical Malpractice Settlement of $3,500,000 in case involving the use of a vacuum extractor.

• Settlement of obstetrical malpractice case involving a feto-maternal bleed for a present cost of $4 million

• Jury Awards $1,900,000 in Medical Malpractice Case Against Sibley Hospital

  On August 16, 2001, Andrew Greenwald obtained a jury verdict of $1,900,000 in a medical malpractice case that he tried in the District of Columbia against Sibley Hospital.
  

• Malpractice Settlement of $1,043,000 for Meningitis Case.

Andrew Greenwald recently settled a medical malpractice case involving meningitis for $1,043,000.

Practice

Mr. Greenwald has handled some of the largest medical malpractice cases in Maryland, including over 30 cases in which there were jury verdicts or settlements of more than one million dollars. He is a founding member and shareholder of Joseph, Greenwald, and Laake, P.A., where he conducts and oversees litigation of medical malpractice, product liability, personal injury, and other civil litigation matters. He has argued 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. Mr. Greenwald is also a national public speaker-frequently appearing before legal audiences at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and other bar associations-where he has given over 100 lectures and seminars on various legal topics. He has also lectured to medical and dental groups. He has contributed to national legal publications and instructional legal tape seminars. As a 1964 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Greenwald earned his juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center in 1967. He is named in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in the World.

Recent and Other Experience Includes Representation Of:

• Jury verdict of $1,900,000 in medical malpractice case against Sibley Hospital
• Settlement of $1,043,000 in a meningitis case
• Representation of a client in an obstetrical malpractice case which resulted in a $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

Selected Professional and Business Activities

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  • Board Member of the Birth Trauma Litigation Group
  • Former Chairman of the Torts Section
  • Member of the Key Person Committee
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association
• Member, Prince George's Bar Association
• Member, Montgomery County Bar Association
• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association
• Member Trial Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia
• Member, American Board of Trial Advocates
• Member, William B. Bryant Inn, American Inns of Court
• Former Reviewer for Journal of Communication
• Former Reviewer for American Journal of Obstetrics And Gynecology
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Brain Research Association at Children's Hospital
• Certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys
• Seminar Speaker at numerous Bar Association CLE Courses
• Member, Lawguru (www.lawguru.com)

• Vacuum Extraction Perils, Problems and Pearls, Birth Trauma Litigation Group
• Erb's Palsy: The Defense, Birth Trauma Litigation Group
• Deposing Medical Experts, Trial Magazine
• In The Beginning: Examples of Opening Statements, Trial Magazine
• Contributor to The Profoundly Injured Child, ATLA Press
• Shattered Dreams: A Look At The Seriously Injured Child, Trial Magazine
• ATLA Tape Series on Medical Negligence and Hospital Liability
• Let Me Ask You This--Some Thoughts On Cross-Examination, Trial Magazine
• Oh, Didn't I Tell You? A Look At Informed Consent, Trial Magazine
• Contributor to Settlement and Plea Bargaining, published by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Education Fund
• Contributor to Sports Torts, Association of Trial Lawyers of America tape
• Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Medical Negligence Cases, Malpractice Tape Series, put out by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
• Contributor to How to Recognize and Handle Recreational Liability Cases: Sports Torts, published by the Association of Trial lawyers of America
• Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Medical Negligence Cases, A Positive Approach, Trial Magazine
• Gymnastics Litigation, The Standard of Care, Trial Magazine
• Medical Malpractice Litigation: A Modest Settlement Proposal, Trial Magazine
• Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Medical Negligence Cases/What You Don't Know May Hurt You, Trial Magazine and selected for publication in Best of Trial, ATLA Press
• Published by invitation in Shoulder Dystocia and Birth Injury by James O'Leary, MD

Classes/Seminars Taught: 

Lecture: A Lot of Nerve (Stretching the Truth), American Association of Justice, National Convention, 2009


Lecture on Shoulder Dystocia "Stretching the Truth" to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, AAJ Mid-Winter Convention, 2007


Lecturer on Animations Medical Malpractice Information Group, AAJ Mid-Winter Convention, 2007


Contributor to Sports Torts, American Association for Justice tape


Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Medical negligence Cases, Malpractice Tape Series, American Association for Justice


Instrumental Deliver, Seminar on the Catastrophically injured child, AAJ


Questions, Language and Bologna, Presentation to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, AAJ National Convention, Boston


Deposition Techniques to Prepare for Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses and Defendants at Trial, AAJ Birth Trauma Group Seminar


Discovery of Defendants and Their Expert Witnesses, AAJ Summer Conference, Atlanta, Presentation to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group


Erb's Palsy: The Defense, Presentation to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, AAJ National Convention


Persuasive Techniques in Birth Injury Cases, Litigating Catastrophically Injured Infants Cases, Atlanta Georgia, National College of Advocacy Seminar


Vacuum Extraction Perils, Problems and Pearls, Presentation to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, AAJ Annual Convention, San Francisco


Developing Thematic Evidence Through Expert Witnesses, Trial Advocacy Track: Depositions: "The Game Plan for Trial", AAJ Annual Convention, Washington, D>C>


Making the Defendant the Plaintiff's Expert, Trial Advocacy Track Education Program, AAJ 50th Anniversary Annual Convention, Boston, MA.


Obstetrics, Liability Issues in Health Care, American Bar Association National Institute Program, San Francisco, California


Preparation For and Cross-Examination of Expert Witnesses at Deposition and at Trial,, Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention, White Sulfur Springs, West Va. Fighting For Justice


How to Prepare Your Case Through Discovery, Maryland Trial Lawyers Seminar, Baltimore, MD


Discovery, Kansas City Trial Lawyers Association


Section on Professional Negligence, AAJ National Convention, San Francisco, CA


Prozac, Section of Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts, National Convention, Washington, D.C.


The Trial of a Medical Negligence Case, Seminar on Medical Negligence, MICPEL


Faculty member, Advanced NITA Course, Washington D.C.f, NITA


The Defendant's Life Expectancy Experts; Prozac,, AAJ National Convention, Toronto, Sunrise Seminar


Trial Tactics-Direct and Cross Examination of Experts in a Product Liability Case, District of Columbia Bar Association Annual Convention


Discovery, DCTLA Meeting


Blackboards and Tear-Sheets, AAJ Seminar on Demonstrative Evidence


Seminar on Opening Statement, Montgomery County Bar Association


Causation in Medical Negligence Cases, Belli Seminar / AAJ National Convention


Demonstrative Evidence, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Litigation Luncheon.


Final Argument, Moderator, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association Annual Seminar


Medical Legal Issues in Pediatrics, 18th Ross Roundtable Held at Johns Hopkins Medical Center


Proof and Work Up of Damages in the Profoundly Injured Child, AAJ National Convention


Depositions, AAJ National College of Advocacy, Discovery and Settlement, Yale University


Techniques of Examination, Cross Examination of Pediatric Immunologists, AAJ Seminar on Traumatic Medicine - Pain, It's Origins and Measurement, Boston, Massachusetts


Medical Negligence, West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association Seminar


Cross Examination, National College of Advocacy, University of Bridgeport


Taking on the Defendant and His Experts in a Medical Negligence Case,, AAJ National Convention


Seminar on Medical Malpractice, MICPEL


Prince George's County Seminar on Final Argument, Montgomery County


Faculty, AAJ National College of Advocacy


Presenting Economic Evidence, Risk Managers Division of the Hospital Council of the National Capital Area


Faculty Seminar for Maryland Emergency Medical Services, Baltimore, Maryland


Faculty Seminar for Maryland Emergency Medical Services, Cumberland, Maryland


Faculty Seminar for Maryland Emergency Medical Services, Hyattsville, Maryland


Faculty, AAJ National College of Advocacy, Basic College, Specialized Course in Damages, Washington, D.C.


Faculty, AAJ National College of Advocacy, Specialized Course in Medical malpractice, Yale University Law School


Discovery, Chairman, Maryland Trial Lawyers Annual Seminar on Trial Practice


Direct Examination of Expert Witness, Maryland Trial Lawyers Annual Convention Demonstration


"The Nuts & Bolts of Personal Injury Practice", MICPEL, College Park, Maryland; Easton, Maryland; & Baltimore, Maryland


Architectural Negligence; Obstetrics and Brain Damage, AAJ National Convention


Faculty, AAJ Regional College of Advocacy


Speaker, Louisiana State Bar Association


Final Argument, American Association for Justice, Seminar on the Profoundly Injured Child


Speaker, Kansas Trial Lawyers Seminar


Seminar on Trial Advocacy, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association


Speaker, Maryland Trial Lawyers Annual Convention


Obstetrics, Cerebral Palsy and Brain Damage, AAJ National Convention


Faculty, AAJ Special Course in Damages, Harvard Law School


Faculty, AAJ Advanced Course in Trial Advocacy


Faculty, AAJ Regional College of Advocacy, Georgetown Law Center


Informed Consent, American Association for Justice, Third Circuit Seminar


Discussion on Medical malpractice, University of Maryland, University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland


Examination of a Hospital Administrator, Hospital Discussion, and Final Argument in a Case Against a Hospital, American Association for Justice, Fourth Circuit Seminar


CLE Speaker, Cross-Examination of Medical Experts, Montgomery County - Prince George's County


Cross-Examination of Medical Experts, Maryland Trial Lawyers Advocacy Seminar, Moderator and Speaker


Cross-Examination of Medical Experts, Indiana trial Lawyers Seminar


Panel Member, Program on "Anatomy of a Malpractice Case", Maryland Trial Lawyers Annual Convention Panel


Effective Cross-Examination of Medical Experts, Delaware Trial Lawyers Meeting, Wilmington, Delaware


Medical Aspects of Whiplash Injuries, AAJ National Convention, Young Lawyers Section


Moderator on Seminar on Law & Medicine, AAJ Convention


Voir Dire as a Technique of Cross Examination, Belli Seminar


Discovery From the Opponent; Demonstrative Evidence, Georgetown University Law Center, The Art and Problems of Trial Practice


Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses, American Association for Justice, Third Circuit Seminar


The Increased Injuries in the Gymnastics Setting, West Virginia Trial Lawyers Annual Meeting


Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Creating Demonstrative Evidence in Personal Injury Cases, Virginia Trial Lawyers 23rd Annual Seminar


Use of Discovery Tools in Medical Cases, American Association for Justice, Fourth Circuit Seminar


Techniques, Tactics and Strategy in the Trial of a Personal Injury Case; Tips Techniques and Tools for Effective Discovery, Montgomery-Prince George's Continuing Legal Education Institute


Medical Malpractice From the Plaintiff's Point of view, Georgetown University Law Center, Point/Counterpoint Series


Discovery as a Trial Technique in Personal Injury Cases,, Montgomery-Prince George's Continuing Legal Education Institute


Sports Injuries, Tort Section, American Association for Justice


Belli Seminar, AAJ Annual Convention, San Francisco


Health Professionals in Court, Northern Virginia Doctors Hospital


Liability of Coaches, American Association for Justice, Third Circuit Seminar


American Association for Justice, National College of Advocacy


Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Personal Injury Cases and Proof of Damages in Personal Injury Cases, Montgomery County / Prince George's County Legal Education


Discovery; Demonstrative Evidence, The Art and Problems of Trial Practice, Georgetown University Law Center


8th Circuit Seminar, American Association for Justice


Annual Convention, American Association for Justice


Belli Seminar


Cross Examination, Montgomery County / Prince George's County Continuing Legal Education


Discovery; Demonstrative Evidence, The Art and Problems of Trial Practice, Georgetown University Law Center


Lecturer and Program Chairman, Point-Counterpoint Series, Medical Malpractice, Georgetown University Law Center


Preparing the Plaintiff's Case, Practicing Law Institute, Drug Liability Seminar


Effective Pre-Trial Discovery in Medical Negligence Cases, Montgomery County / Prince George's County Legal Education


Mock Trial, Maryland Trial Lawyers Association Annual Convention


Practical Consideration in Medical Malpractice Cases, District of Columbia Bar


Strict Liability in Maryland, American Association for Justice 4th Circuit Seminar


Medical Malpractice From the Plaintiff's Point of View, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Breakfast Seminars


American Association for Justice Annual Convention


Lectured on Medical Malpractice, American Association for Justice 2nd Circuit Seminar


A symposium on Common Pediatric Problems, Children's Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, D.C.


Lectured on Professional Negligence, Southern Maryland Dental Society


Trial Lawyers Seminar on Birth Injury, 2006


Litigating Catastrophically Injured Infant Cases, Stretching the Truth, AAJ Birth Trauma Litigation Seminar, Marina del Rey, CA, February 3, 2006 - February 4, 2006


Professional Negligence Seminar, The Defendant and His Experts: Accentuating the Positive, AAJ Convention, Toronto, Canada, July 26, 2005


Seminar on the Catastrophically Injured Child Seminar, Instrumental Deliveries: Dangers and Consequences, AAJ, Atlanta, GA, February 26, 2005


Presentation to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group, AAJ National Convention, Boston, 2004


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Personal Injury

Medical Malpractice

Product Liability

Civil Litigation

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1967

University of Wisconsin, B.S., 1964

Bar & Court Admissions

Maryland

District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court