Maryland Civil Appeals- Another win!
We are personal injury trial lawyers here at Miller & Zois. Let there be no doubt about that. But even our referring lawyers often do not know that M&Z has one practice area that is not solely focused on representing injury victims.
That is my Maryland civil appellate practice. Although I have a record of success in appeals involving personal injury, I handle civil appeals of all types.
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Last week, I was able to achieve a successful result on appeal for a client in a non-injury case. This resulted in a reported opinion in the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. The name of the case is Capital Select Realtors, LLC v. NRT Mid-Atlantic, LLC. You can read the opinion here.
The case involved a real estate commission dispute that was submitted to arbitration. A party to the arbitration went to the circuit court to attempt to confirm the arbitration award (which basically means to turn it into a judgment that can be collected in court). Instead of just turning the arbitrators’ award into a judgment, the trial judge modified the award to add two judgment debtors. I was able to persuade the appellate court that the trial judge should be reversed because the other side had failed to follow the Maryland statutes governing the situations where a circuit court is allowed to modify arbitration awards.
The significance of this being a reported opinion is that reported opinions are published in the Maryland law reporters (here Md.App.) and can be relied upon as precedents by litigants in later cases. In contrast, unpublished opinions only govern the case at hand and are not considered legal precedents. The idea behind arbitration is that it is supposed to cut down on litigation. So there are not really that many published Maryland opinions on the topic. I think that is one reason this case resulted in a published opinion. Hopefully, this good result for my client will also be helpful to other litigants down the road.
I am currently accepting referrals (from attorneys only) for civil appeals of all types. If the case is important to you and your client, you should consider consulting with a skilled appellate lawyer with a record of good results.
