Creative Dispute Resolutions: Mediation and Arbitration in Maryland and D.C.

Johnson

J. Bradford McCullough, Esq.

Practice Areas:
Commercial and business disputes, shareholders’ derivative litigation, corporate directors’ and officers’ liability claims, breach of fiduciary duty claims, business dissolutions, lender liability litigation, banking disputes, class actions, breach of contract claims, fraud and misrepresentation claims, Uniform Commercial Code disputes, and claims concerning non-competition agreements

Experience:
- Principal, Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., Bethesda, Maryland, 2000-present
- Of Counsel, Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., Bethesda, Maryland, 1997-1999
- Associate, Miles & Stockbridge, 1992-1997
- Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman (successor to Becket, Cromwell & Meyers, P.A.)
- Partner, 1991-1992
- Associate, 1984-1990
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Theodore G. Bloom, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland

Education:
- J.D., University of Baltimore School of Law
- B.A., cum laude, McDaniel College

ADR Training/Experience:
- 40-Hour Mediation Training, MICPEL
- Faculty Member, MICPEL Mediation Training Courses, 2004-2006
- Court-approved Mediator, Circuit Courts of Maryland
- Lecturer, “A Guide to Successful Mediation,” Montgomery County Bar Association Law Day, 2008
- Presenter, “ADR Hot Tips,” Maryland State Bar Annual Convention, 2009

Affiliations:
- Co-Chair, Dispositive Motion Subcommittee of the Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 2008-present
- Member, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, 1984-present
- Co-Chair, Commercial Litigation Section, Bar Association of Montgomery County, 2006-present
- Co-Chair, Federal Practice Section, Bar Association of Montgomery County, 2002-2006
- Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Bar Association of Montgomery County, 2007-present
- Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, Maryland State Bar Association, 2007-present
- Member, Litigation Section, Maryland State Bar Association, 1984-present
- Chair, Board of Directors, Interfaith Works, 1995-1997; 2008-present
- Member, Board of Directors, Interfaith Works, 1994-2004; 2006-present
- Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Trial Advocacy Skills, Georgetown University Law Center, 2006, 2008
- Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Taking and Defending Depositions, 2003
- Frequent Lecturer on Litigation Practices, Discovery, Expert Witnesses, Dispositive Motions, Damages in Business Tort Cases