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LAURIE CHRZANOWSKI is a certified paralegal with the firm of Berman, Sobin, Gross, Feldman & Darby, LLP, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, where she specializes in the areas of personal injury, including automobile incidents, workers' compensation third party, slip and fall, medical malpractice, and wrong prescriptions. Ms. Chrzanowski handles client and case care from the beginning through settlement for three partners and two associates, and litigation for one associate. Ms. Chrzanowski conducts medical research, legal and factual research, investigations, and clients' interviews. She prepares pleadings, memoranda and briefs, witness lists and exhibits, trial notebooks, demand and settlement documents, and deposition schedules and summaries. Ms. Chrzanowski's other areas of responsibility include coordinating and managing document production, locating and interviewing witnesses and experts, organizing pleadings and trial exhibits, and maintaining general client contact. She is a graduate of Frederick Community College and Stevenson University. She is a member of the National Federation of Paralegal Associations (NFPA). KAREN J. MILLER is a paralegal with the law firm of Waranch & Brown, LLC. Ms. Miller has 25 years of litigation experience and has worked both for plaintiff and defense firms. For the past eleven years, she has worked in medical malpractice litigation. Ms. Miller has been employed with Waranch & Brown, LLC for the past nine years and enjoys handling the larger, complex cases. She routinely subpoenas medical records to review, organize and analyze. Ms. Miller gleans pertinent information from the records to prepare detailed case chronologies and charts, and utilizes various databases to research case-specific medical terminology as well as additional party information, expert witness information, and fact witness information. She regularly communicates with witnesses and experts, and identifies and coordinates the production of case materials for their review. Ms. Miller also assists in preparing cases for trial. She is a notary public for the state of Maryland and has experience training and speaking on various medical malpractice litigation subjects. JOHN T. SLY is a trial attorney and partner at Waranch & Brown, LLC. His practice focuses on the aggressive defense of physicians and health care facilities, and product manufacturers, distributors and retailers throughout Maryland. He has successfully tried to verdict numerous high-dollar cases and has argued before state and federal appellate courts. Baltimore Magazine and Maryland Super Lawyers Magazine have identified Mr. Sly as a Super Lawyer in the field of medical malpractice defense for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Only 5% of attorneys in each state are selected. He has also been named to the September 2009 and 2010 issues of Super Lawyers - Corporate Counsel Edition for his work in the field of product liability. Mr. Sly graduated, with honors, in 1996 from Albany Law School of Union University; where he served as associate editor of the Albany Law Review and was inducted into the Justinian Society and received the Robert Barker Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Moot Court Program. He received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from the State University of New York at Albany; where he served as president of the Political Science Association. Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Sly co-founded and managed a political marketing and consulting firm and worked in the U.S. House of Representatives and the New York State Legislature. Since becoming a trial attorney, he has served on the Executive Board of the Maryland Defense Counsel and is actively involved with the Defense Research Institute and the MD-DC Society for Healthcare Risk Management. Mr. Sly is the author of a number of publications including "Don't Take Their Word For It - Attack the Plaintiffs' Expert," Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, winter 2011 and "Hospitals are Not the Insurer of Last Resort," Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, winter 2010. He has had the privilege of lecturing at University of Maryland Law School and at various health care facilities on the legal process, and has presented at a full-day trial academy sponsored by the Maryland Defense Counsel.
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