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

Johnson

Hon. William J. Rowan, III (Ret.)

Practice Areas:
Personal injury, malpractice (legal, medical, and dental), workers’ compensation, administrative appeals, business/commercial, insurance, construction, contracts, premises liability, products liability, torts, property, real estate, and land use disputes, defense of lawyers and judges before the Attorney Grievance Commission and Judicial Disabilities Commission, and criminal law

Experience:
- Associate Judge, Montgomery County Circuit Court, 6th Judicial Circuit (Civil, Family Law, and Criminal)
- Partner, Rowan, Quirk & Nalls
- Counsel to Montgomery County Legislative Delegation
- Law Clerk to the Hon. James H. Pugh and the Hon. Thomas M. Anderson, Montgomery County Circuit Court

Education:
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
- B.A., University of Detroit

ADR Training:
- 40-Hour Course Certification, Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution

Affiliations:
- Member, Judicial Compensation Committee, Conference of Circuit Court Judges
- Member, Maryland Circuit Court Judges Association
- Past Member, Trial Court Judicial Nominating Commission, 11th Commission District (Montgomery County)
- Past Assistant Reporter, Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland
- Past Member, Board of Governors, Maryland State Bar Association
- Past Member, Executive Committee and Chairperson of Numerous Committees, Montgomery County Bar Association
- Past Member, Executive Committee, Maryland Circuit Judges’ Association
- Past Counsel, Montgomery County Delegation, Maryland State Legislature
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Past State Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Best Lawyer List, Woodward/White, 1993-1997
- Best Lawyer List, Washingtonian Magazine, 1997