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Mr. Kelly joined Jackson & Campbell, P.C. from the Department of Justice in 1988. He became a Director in 1992 and a Shareholder in 1993, and is a member of the Firm’s General Litigation and Trial Practice Group. He has been appointed a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, is rated AV-Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell, and has received the coveted Super Lawyer designation for Washington, D.C. in the fields of professional liability, general litigation, and insurance coverage annually beginning in 2012. He is included on the Roster of Neutrals of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) for construction disputes, and serves as an arbitrator and mediator in disputes brought to the AAA for resolution.

He serves as a volunteer arbitrator with the D.C. Bar’s Attorney/Client Arbitration Board, is a Steering Committee member of the Litigation Community of the District of Columbia Bar, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Construction Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra-Contractual Counsel. Mr. Kelly’s practice has concentrated on the counseling and defense of clients in litigation arising out of construction defect and delay claims, professional liability claims (particularly those brought against architects, engineers and social services providers), environmental and toxic tort disputes (including asbestos, gasoline spills, and interior mold claims), pharmaceutical product liability claims and serious bodily injury and wrongful death claims. He also assists insurance companies in resolving coverage questions arising under general liability and professional liability policies in those and other areas of the law, and represents insurers in coverage litigation.

Like any litigator, he has had occasion to take on cases in other areas as far afield as those involving employment discrimination, public charity tax issues, and tort suits against adoption agencies. A member of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Florida bars, Mr. Kelly’s practice is centered in the regional D.C., Maryland, and Virginia state and federal courts, but he has been admitted pro hac vice to the courts of virtually all other east coast states, and in a good number of western states including Arizona, Montana, Texas, and Wyoming. In addition to his trial work, Bob has represented clients in appeals in several states, including briefing appeals to the Supreme Courts of Delaware, South Carolina, and Texas, and briefing and arguing appeals to the Supreme Courts of Virginia and West Virginia, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits. Before coming to Jackson & Campbell, Mr. Kelly was a Senior Trial Attorney with DOJ’s Civil Division (Torts Branch) defending environmental and toxic tort (asbestos) claims brought against the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act.

He also maintained a significant admiralty and maritime tort caseload. In 1987, he joined the Adjunct Faculty of the Washington College of Law at The American University, where he taught legal writing for seven years. He received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in civil engineering from Princeton University in 1974 and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in 1977. Mr. Kelly speaks and publishes frequently on litigation and insurance coverage topics, and currently is most active in the Construction Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Litigation Section of the District of Columbia Bar. He is a past Vice Chair of the Insurance Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS).

He authors and provides annual updates to the chapters on District of Columbia law in two highly regarded treatises, the “Tort Law Desk Reference” and the “Product Liability Desk Reference.” He wrote the chapter on Post-Evidentiary Actions and Relief from Judgments and Orders for inclusion in the D.C. Bar Association’s most recent (2014) update to its “Civil Trial Practice Manual,” as well as the post-trial (appellate) chapter in the recent reissuance of “Appleman’s on Insurance,” a nationally recognized treatise on insurance coverage law. He also has been principally responsible for updating the DC Bar’s Litigation Section’s chapter on Superior Court Civil Practice in “The District of Columbia Practice Manual.”

Spencer S. Pollock, Esq., CIPP/US, CIPM is an attorney in the Corporate and Litigation Departments at Niles, Barton, & Wilmer, LLP, concentrating his practice in date security, cybersecurity, and privacy law. As an attorney, Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP-US) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM), Mr. Pollock assists clients in navigating and complying with the applicable state, federal, and international data security, cybersecurity, and privacy laws and regulations. Further, he performs the necessary due diligence on the client’s third-party service providers to assess and confirm their compliance with these laws and regulations. In the event of a data breach, Mr. Pollock analyzes and determines the applicable laws impacting clients and assists each with all the necessary steps to stay compliant to avoid fines, penalties, and potential regulatory investigations and civil lawsuits.

Beiramee & Saboura, BethesdaMr. Saboura-Polkovotsy is a practicing litigation and trial attorney. He litigates complex commercial, business, malpractice and professional regulatory matters throughout Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Saboura-Polkovotsy has defended professionals in all types of professional liability matters arising out of alleged errors and omissions related to professional services in a wide range of professions including, attorneys, architects, engineers, design professionals, real estate professionals and healthcare professionals. He has also represented professionals with respect to peer review and other disciplinary matters and advised them in various other regulatory compliance matters. Prior to Beiramee and Saboura, P.C., Mr. Saboura-Polkovotsy was a shareholder at a 30+ attorney civil litigation and insurance defense firm in the Washington Metropolitan area. Prior to law school, he served as the director of International Sales and Marketing for a primary contractor to the US Department of Defense.

Mr. Smith is co-chair of the Washington, D.C. Litigation Practice Group. His practice focuses on the representation of owners, design-builders, design professionals, construction managers, and general contractors in all phases of the construction process. Mr. Smith’s pre-construction experience includes drafting and negotiating construction, construction management, and design agreements. Mr. Smith assists clients with pursing their rights through litigation and alternative dispute resolution. His litigation experience includes all manner of construction and design disputes, including impact and delay claims, construction and design defects, differing site conditions, design negligence, terminations for default, change order and extra work disputes, requests for equitable adjustments, payment and performance bond claims, mechanics’ liens, prompt payment and conditional payment disputes, and bid protests. Mr. Smith has substantial experience arbitrating and litigating design and construction claims, with a proven track record of success. He is an advocate for early case assessment and mediation, and he has successfully resolved numerous claims through mediation. Mr. Smith has represented clients in state courts throughout the United States, federal courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the American Arbitration Association, and in several non-administered arbitrations.

Michael E. Wagner, Jr is an Associate at Seyfarth Shaw, LLP. He regularly drafts and negotiates construction and design contracts on behalf of owners, general contractors, and subcontractors in order to allocate and mitigate risks and avoid disputes and the associated expense. He has drafted customized agreements for clients and also has experience working with form agreements, such as the AIA, DBIA, and ConsensusDocs. Mr. Wagner’s transactional work spans multiple different project delivery methods, including design-bid-build, design-build, EPC, and public-private partnerships (P3). He has participated in all aspects of a construction project—from project conception, design, contract negotiation, and preconstruction—through the stages of project delivery, construction, close-out, and operation. As a result, he has substantial experience in both transactional work and claims and disputes. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Wagner worked for a general contractor, where he was involved in preconstruction and project and risk management for multiple commercial and government construction projects, with a focus on heavy- civil, highways, utilities, and other public infrastructure work.

Mr. Avery served in the Army for 20 years. Since 1993, after he retired from the Army, he has restricted his practice to family law, predominantly in Montgomery County, Maryland. First as a solo practitioner and now in partnership with his daughter, Prudence Upton. He has handled hundreds of divorce, child custody, child support, visitation and other family issues, most often bringing them to resolution without the need for a trial. Mr. Avery is frequently consulted by other counsel regarding military matters and has done presentations for a number of groups regarding military family law. He has been selected by SuperLawyers every year since 2008 and has been selected for listing in The Best Lawyers in America since 2017. Mr. Avery is a certified as a mediator in both general civil matters and family law, focusing on property and child-related issues. He serves as a facilitator for the Family Law Division of the Montgomery County Circuit Court. Mr. Avery is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law where he co-teaches Collaborative Practice to law students. He is a trainer for the Collaborative Practice Training Institute training practicing professionals in Collaborative Practice.

William M Ferris Attorney at Law
Mr. Ferris graduated with a juris doctor degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law, summa cum laude (highest honors), in 1978. He has also earned a master of laws degree (LL.M.) in Taxation from the University of the Baltimore Law School. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Maryland State Bar Association, and the Anne Arundel County Bar Association, and is certified as a proctor in admiralty by the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces, the United States Tax Court, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, and the Maryland Court of Appeals, and has appeared before all of those courts as well as before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, various Maryland Circuit and Orphans’ Court, the Maryland District Court, and the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review. Mr. Ferris is a member of the Character Committee of the Maryland Court of Appeals, a past member of the Maryland Commission on Judicial Disabilities, and a former member and past president of the Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners.

Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, PA
Mr. Mohink is the owner of the Law Offices of Todd K. Mohink, P.A., and has been practicing for 25 years. The firm has offices in Anne Arundel County and Howard County, Maryland. He represents clients in family law matters and criminal matters. The family law matters include divorce, child custody, child visitation, child support, paternity, adoption, pre-nuptial agreements, marital separation agreements, protective orders and other domestic relations matters. He is licensed to practice law in the state of Maryland. Mr. Mohink has extensive experience in the area of family law. While in law school, he interned with the school’s civil clinic, where he assisted his clients with landlord/tenant matters, and other civil matters. He has argued in front of the appellate courts in the state of Maryland and is a member of the Family Law Section of the Maryland Bar Association. He is the proud recipient of Martindale-Hubbell’s silver Client Champion Award from 2017-2019, and has more than 100 Google Five Star Reviews. Mr. Mohink earned his B.A. degree from the University of Maryland, and earned his J.D. degree from University of Baltimore School of Law with Honors.

Mummert Law
Mr. Mummert graduated cum laude from Frostburg State University with a B.S. degree in Political Science and Justice Studies and received a J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law, After law school he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Michael E. Loney at the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. Timothy J. Mummert, P.A., was founded in February, 2006. Mr. Mummert is admitted to practice in Maryland and the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. He has completed training for civil and family law mediation, domestic collaborative law and civil collaborative law, and is a Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County mediator in all issues of family law.

Shulman Rogers
Ms. Neuhausen is a zealous advocate for clients involved in negotiation and litigation centering on their families. An associate with the firm’s Family Law practice group, her practice focuses on domestic relations matters, including divorce, custody, visitation, child support, alimony, property distribution, LGBT family issues, adoptions, and assisted reproductive technology issues. Ms. Neuhausen has a broad background in dealing with a variety of family law issues. Some of her memorable cases involve assisting clients with international, domestic, step-parent, second-parent, and foster-parent adoptions in Maryland, D.C., and Virginia. Ms. Neuhausen also represents clients in negotiating surrogacy, sperm donor, and egg donor contracts. She is adept at guiding LGBT clients through the process of building their families, and also has familiarity with issues that can unfortunately arise when things don’t work out.

Mr. Gorski is an attorney in Annapolis, specializing in environmental, natural resources and agricultural law. He advises clients on environmental and agricultural matters, water supply and sewer capacity allocation, land use and related litigation. In addition, he represents clients litigating in State and federal courts and administrative forums, including trial and appellate advocacy.

Mr. Gorski served as an assistant attorney general representing the Maryland Department of the Environment from 1991 to 1997. In addition to his law practice, he has taught environmental law in the graduate engineering program at Johns Hopkins University for over 20 years and water resources law and policy for the University of Maryland’s Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics. He is an active speaker in legal education seminars.

Mr. Gorski earned a J.D. degree and a master of environmental law degree, cum laude, from Vermont Law School and a B.S. degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Management, with minors in Biology and Chemistry, from Frostburg University. He is admitted to practice in Maryland, before the US District Court for Maryland, and before the US Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association (Environmental Law and Agriculture Law Sections).

Mr. Henderson is the co-founder and managing partner of Rich &
Henderson, P.C., which has law offices located in Annapolis and Easton, Maryland. Widely regarded as among the leading trial and transactional attorneys in his region, Mr. Henderson provides exceptional representation and support to clients throughout Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas. His main areas of practice include administrative law, business and commercial law, energy and natural resources law, environmental law and land use and zoning. Over the course of his legal career, Mr. Henderson has achieved remarkable success helping a diverse range of clients across the country with their important and pressing legal issues. He has extensive experience handling matters involving regulatory compliance of hazardous waste disposal and related violations as well as helping his clients to obtain the necessary permits and licenses they need.

In addition, Mr. Henderson has considerable experience handling environmental due diligence for mergers and acquisitions and complex real estate-related issues involving land use and zoning requirements. He has become known as an authority on environmental law, and he has gained a reputation for his efficient and cost-effective manner of helping his clients navigate the complex and convoluted process of environmental requirements needed to allow them to open their businesses or acquire land. As further evidence of his in-depth legal knowledge and leadership skills, Mr. Henderson serves as an instructor of environmental law and business law courses with the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals Program.

He has also conducted numerous lectures and continuing legal education seminars across the nation on a variety of legal topics related to real estate law, land development and other subjects, and he has served as Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section. A 1976 graduate of the State University of New York at Purchase with a Bachelor of Arts in environmental science. In 1980, Mr. Henderson received his Master of Science from the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School.

Professor of Law and the lead land use attorney at the Land Use and Sustainable Development Law Clinic at the West Virginia University College of Law
Before coming to WVU, Jesse Richardson was an associate professor at Virginia Tech. His research and experience focuses on land use law and water law. He began his legal career in private practice in his home town of Winchester, Virginia. Mr. Richardson has served on the board of directors of the American Agricultural Law Association where he was both President-Elect and President. Mr. Richardson previously served on the Virginia Water Policy Technical Advisory Committee. He was honored with the 1999 Professional Scholarship Award from the American Agricultural Law Association, the 2004 William E. Wine Award for a history of teaching excellence from Virginia Tech (the highest teaching award granted by the university), and the 2009 University Certificate of Excellence in Outreach.

As a water resources practitioner and manager for 33 years, Mr. Der provides regulatory and scientific expertise for public and private sector clients, with a commitment to equitable and sustainable solutions to complex projects while specializing in creative linkages between ecology and engineering. He has been in private consulting practice since 2001, first as an associate and director of environmental services for two civil engineering firms in the greater Washington, DC, and Baltimore metropolitan areas, then since 2013, the principal of his own consulting firm, Andrew T. Der & Associates, LLC, and now since 2024, promoting the national firm HDR Inc. Mid-Atlantic practice. Prior to 2001, Mr. Der previously completed 17 years of service with the Maryland Department of the Environment as a manager leading major new initiatives to regulate and restore Chesapeake Bay water resources. He is also an appointed industry representative of the U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council Stakeholder’s Advisory Committee, as well as provides expert testimony and media interviews.”

Smouse and Mason, LLCMs. Kuspa is an associate at Smouse & Mason, LLC. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the University Of Maryland School of Law’s Environmental Law Program. Prior to working at Smouse & Mason, Ms. Kuspa represented neglected and abused children in children-in-need-of-assistance and termination of parental rights matters throughout Maryland and clerked for the Honorable Richard S. Bernhardt in the Circuit Court for Howard County.

Mr. Liebesman is a nationally-recognized environmental lawyer and litigator with more than 40 years of experience. His practices emphasizes wetlands, water pollution, and coastal issues, as well as environmental impact assessment and endangered species law. Mr. Liebesman represents a range of clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors on a broad range environmental issues at the federal and state levels. He has negotiated Clean Water Act (CWA) and Endangered Species Act (ESA) permits and approvals for commercial, residential, public works and environmental restoration projects, and he has defended challenges to those permits and approvals in court. Mr. Liebesman has also participated in landmark CWA and ESA cases and has authored amicus briefs in seven major environmental cases before the United States Supreme Court. This included the Rapanos case regarding the geographic reach of CWA jurisdiction and submitted comments on the highly-controversial EPA and Corps regulation defining Waters of the United States in response to the Rapanos. He advises clients on stormwater permitting issues and sits on the Maryland State Water Quality Advisory Committee which provides advice to the Maryland Secretaries of Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on Chesapeake Bay water quality issues. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Liebesman spent 11 years as a senior trial attorney at the Environment Division of the Department of Justice including a one year detail to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality during the Carter Administration helping to develop regulations to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). While at DOJ, he handled landmark cases under Superfund, the Clean Water Act and NEPA. Mr. Liebesman was lead counsel in NRDC v. EPA which upheld major portions of EPA’s CWA permitting program. Prior to his DOJ service, he spent two years at EPA’s Office of Federal Activities, EPA’s NEPA oversight office. Mr. Liebesman received Special Achievement and Special Commendation awards for his outstanding service at DOJ. He is a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of Rutgers University and earned his law degree from George Washington University Law School. 

As a water resources practitioner and manager for 33 years, Mr. Der provides regulatory and scientific expertise for public and private sector clients, with a commitment to equitable and sustainable solutions to complex projects while specializing in creative linkages between ecology and engineering. He has been in private consulting practice since 2001, first as an associate and director of environmental services for two civil engineering firms in the greater Washington, DC, and Baltimore metropolitan areas, then since 2013, the principal of his own consulting firm, Andrew T. Der & Associates, LLC, and now since 2024, promoting the national firm HDR Inc. Mid-Atlantic practice. Prior to 2001, Mr. Der previously completed 17 years of service with the Maryland Department of the Environment as a manager leading major new initiatives to regulate and restore Chesapeake Bay water resources. He is also an appointed industry representative of the U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council Stakeholder’s Advisory Committee, as well as provides expert testimony and media interviews.”

Mr. Liebesman is a nationally-recognized environmental lawyer and litigator with more than 40 years of experience. His practices emphasizes wetlands, water pollution, and coastal issues, as well as environmental impact assessment and endangered species law. Mr. Liebesman represents a range of clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors on a broad range environmental issues at the federal and state levels. He has negotiated Clean Water Act (CWA) and Endangered Species Act (ESA) permits and approvals for commercial, residential, public works and environmental restoration projects, and he has defended challenges to those permits and approvals in court. Mr. Liebesman has also participated in landmark CWA and ESA cases and has authored amicus briefs in seven major environmental cases before the United States Supreme Court. This included the Rapanos case regarding the geographic reach of CWA jurisdiction and submitted comments on the highly-controversial EPA and Corps regulation defining Waters of the United States in response to the Rapanos. He advises clients on stormwater permitting issues and sits on the Maryland State Water Quality Advisory Committee which provides advice to the Maryland Secretaries of Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture on Chesapeake Bay water quality issues. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Liebesman spent 11 years as a senior trial attorney at the Environment Division of the Department of Justice including a one year detail to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality during the Carter Administration helping to develop regulations to implement the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). While at DOJ, he handled landmark cases under Superfund, the Clean Water Act and NEPA. Mr. Liebesman was lead counsel in NRDC v. EPA which upheld major portions of EPA’s CWA permitting program. Prior to his DOJ service, he spent two years at EPA’s Office of Federal Activities, EPA’s NEPA oversight office. Mr. Liebesman received Special Achievement and Special Commendation awards for his outstanding service at DOJ. He is a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate of Rutgers University and earned his law degree from George Washington University Law School. 

David Shofstahl is a seasoned masonry project manager and field supervisor specializing in
high-end residential and commercial markets in Virginia and West Virginia. With over 25 years of field experience as a mason, he understands and appreciates the diverse challenges of
masonry design and construction. He is an unrelenting problem-solver who is often consulted for professional insight concerning masonry aesthetics and function. Mr. Shofstahl maintains a passion for the time-tested durability of historic masonry practice while also embracing current, cutting edge advancements in construction.

While still consulting in masonry construction, Mr. Shofstahl is also the Apprenticeship Coordinator and the Workforce Trades Program Manager at Dabney S. Lancaster Community College. He holds a BS degree in Civil Engineering Technology and a MS degree in Human Resource Education; he is currently working on a Ph.D degree in Education with a research focus on workforce development and skills gaps in the trades. Mr. Shofstahl is a certified instructor in the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) curriculum and an OSHA Authorized Construction Trainer for 10- and 30-hour outreach training programs.