Michael Stodghill Email & Phone Number

Rockville, MD, US

United States

Chevy Chase, MD

Chevy Chase, MD

Attorney in Claims Home Office, Chevy Chase, MD

Omaha, Nebraska

• Handled title insurance claim load averaging 150 claims under loan and owner’s policies of title insurance and trustee’s sale guarantees.
• Conducted initial claim investigations, prepared written coverage determinations, evaluated and managed resolution of covered claims.
• Directed defense of title by counsel retained for company’s insureds, and supervised counsel in defense of litigation in suits against the company.
• Substantive areas of experience include real property, title insurance, and litigation.

Towson, Maryland

• (Formerly Rubin & Rubin, Chartered)
• Managed and performed all aspects of case preparation in busy business litigation and products liability practice, from review and preparation of initial pleadings through discovery, dispositive motions.
• Part of national coordinating counsel team directing nationwide asbestos litigation for large corporate client.
• Appointed as liaison plaintiff’s counsel in securities class action and derivative cases.
• Lead drafter of appellate briefs in Maryland Court of Special Appeals, and of certiorari petition in Maryland Court of Appeals, in multimillion dollar tortious interference litigation.
• Substantive areas of experience include commercial, securities, products liability, class action litigation, employment, bankruptcy, contracts, and torts.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Significant first-chair trial experience defending personal injury cases, and prosecuting replevin cases, in District Court of Maryland.
• Conducted complex legal research and prepared case-related memoranda in various substantive areas of law, analyzing statutory and case law and positing likely court rulings.
• Prepared written discovery and responses, pleadings, and motions in complex business litigation pending in state and federal courts.
• Substantive areas of experience included contracts, torts, lender liability, corporate governance, employment, tax, and professional liability.

• Drafted published and unpublished opinions for Senior U.S. District Judge in civil cases setting forth relevant facts and applicable law, and proposed case disposition, based on parties’ briefing and on independent.
• Prepared pre-trial bench memoranda to familiarize judge with parties’ allegations, case status, and to recommend disposition of issues requiring court intervention.
• Extensive case-related legal research in wide variety of civil cases.

Doctor Of Law - Jd, Law

J.D., Cum Laude, Law

Activities and Societies: Maryland Law Review Articles Editor 1996-97 and Staff Member 1995-96, Moot Court Board Vice-President 1996-97.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science And Government

B.A., Cum Laude, Government, Spanish Literature

Activities and Societies: Alpha Theta Coeducational Fraternity, Chamber Singers, Participated in a foreign study program in Salamanca.