BGL History
This institution provided office space for two of BGL's founding partners at the outset of the firm.
What is the University of Maryland School of Law?
This Black-owned creamery offers fun Baltimore-themed and cheeky flavors like "Keep ya head up" and "Mintflix and Chillz" and offers home delivery.
What is Taharka Brothers?
A law that sets a time limit for initiating legal proceedings.
What is the statute of limitations?
This case got three wrongfully convicted exonerees a $46 million settlement.
What is Harlem Park Three?
Our furry office mascots aka our Legal Support Animals
Who are Yazzie and Xavier?
This is where BGL had its offices prior to 2020.
What is the 17th Floor?
This small Upper-Fells-Point restaurant frequented by Anthony May serves both pierogies and pizza and was raved about by the New York Times.
What is Little Donna's?
a legal doctrine in contract law that allows a court to enforce a commitment, even if there's no formal contract, if certain conditions are met.
What is promissory estoppel?
This BGL cases the Trump administration's termination of probationary CFPB employees.
What is Holzman v. U.S.?
This BGL'er literally wrote the book on evidence in Maryland courts.
Who is Andy Levy
These two former BGL'ers now have the word "Honorable" before their names
Who are Chelsea Crawford and Brooke Lierman?
This bakery has a complicated timed baked-good schedule that Neel Lalchandani has memorized.
What is Cafe Dear Leon?
This rule offers a way for a party to get judgment if there is no material factual issue for a jury to decide.
What is Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56?
a lawsuit in federal district court in Maryland challenging EPA’s termination of a non-profit's grant award because it was to be used to support “disadvantaged communities.”
What is Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Inc. v. EPA (Thriving Communities)?
This BGL partner is General Counsel for the ACLU of Maryland.
Who is Andy Freeman?
Before BGL, this retired partner prosecuted politicians in the Baltimore U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Who is Dan Goldstein?
This quaint Baltimore neighborhood is the home to two BGL'ers, a farmer's market, and an annual porch prom.
What is Abell?
This legal doctrine requires federal courts sitting in diversity to apply state substantive law but federal procedural law
What is the Erie Doctrine?
This case seeks accountability for the poor maintenance of real-estate-owned properties in cities across the U.S..
What is NFHA v. Bank of America?
These two BGL'ers raise chickens at their homes in Maryland.
Who are Greg Care and Katie Garvey?
This is the name of the bull sculpture acquired at an NFB silent auction and sculpted by a blind artist.
Who is Thurgood Moo-shall?
The creator of this supernatural tool is buried in Baltimore and has a gravestone that pays homage to their invention.
What is the Ouija Board?
What are numerosity, adequacy, typicality, and commonality?
This case obtained settlement that provides housing vouchers and mobility counseling, worth a total of over $1 billion, to enable poor Black families to move from public housing and segregated areas of Baltimore to communities of opportunity throughout the region.
Thompson v. HUD
These two BGL Partners started their time at BGL as a paralegal.