Mr. Leitess’ practice has a national scope, serving clients located around the country in litigation and transactional matters arising in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. His practice focuses on the areas of substantive law that businesses rely upon daily.
The majority of Mr. Leitess’ daily professional activity relates to business litigation and arbitration, however a substantial amount of his time is dedicated to transactional matters and “outside general counsel” services for day-to-day operations of clients who do not have an in-house legal department.
Mr. Leitess has 25 years of experience as “first chair” attorney in numerous evidentiary and non-evidentiary hearings, court trials, jury trial and appellate matters in state and federal courts around the country, including Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia, Florida, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and California. He has argued hundreds of motions and appeals, and participated in meditations and arbitrations. He is a prolific legal writer and has drafted and filed a very large number of pleadings and motion papers in connection with those representations.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Bankruptcy
- Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Chapter 13 Bankruptcy, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, Debt Relief
- Free Consultation
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
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- Maryland
- Supreme Court of Maryland
- ID Number: 8812160036
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Member
- Silverman Thompson
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- Chair, Business & Finance Practice Group
- Stockholder
- Leitess Friedberg PC
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- Assistant Attorney
- Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office
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- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- J.D. (1988)
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- University of Maryland - College Park
- B.A. (1985)
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- Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney
- Super Lawyers
- 2015 - 2020
- AV Preeminent Rated
- Martindale-Hubbell
- 2016
- American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
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- Uniform Law Commission
- Member
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- Maryland Commission on Uniform State Laws
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- Equipment Leasing and Finance Association
- Member
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- Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
- Member
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- Anne Arundel Bar Association
- Member
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- American Bar Association
- Member
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- Maryland State Bar Association
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- District of Columbia Bar Association
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- Deadlock - Breaking Mechanisms in LLCs - Flipping a Coin is Not Good Enough But is Better Than Dissolution
- Business Law Today, American Bar Association
