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Clients facing litigation in today’s demanding environment face a tough challenge – to find lawyers who not only have the court room experience, skill and determination to produce results, but who do so while keeping litigation costs under control. GDLD has the attorneys and resources to meet these challenges.

On a local, regional and national level, our firm's attorneys handle a wide variety of complex and challenging matters, from professional negligence to insurance coverage, and from product liability to commercial disputes. We assist clients in planning business strategies that are designed to avoid litigation. We help clients prepare for anticipated litigation before suit is filed. Once litigation is commenced, we work with our clients to implement best practices designed to provide clients with the information necessary to effectively manage the litigation. GDLD’s litigation resources are comparable to those in the litigation departments of the country’s largest law firms. For information regarding a specific lawyer at GDLD, please click here. For more information regarding the areas in which our firm practices, please click here.

Formed in 1988 by eleven attorneys, our firm has more than tripled in size in the intervening years, fueled by clients satisfied with the expertise of GDLD's attorneys, and our ability to obtain the results desired by our clients in an effective and cost efficient manner. For information regarding representative trials and cases handled by our firm's lawyers, please click here.

Our firm's offices are located in Baltimore City, but our firm is active regionally, nationally, and internationally. Our firm is easily accessible from the Baltimore Washington International Airport, and by Amtrak. For more information about our firm's location, please click here. For Amtrak’s schedule, please click here. For a link regarding flights to and from BWI, please click here.

GDLD employs technology to streamline the practice of law, and to enhance communication between client and counsel. GDLD maintains a substantial Information Services Department whose members keep our attorneys apprised of the advantages technology can offer to litigators and who provide to our lawyers on a case-by-case basis the necessary technological tools to further the client’s interests. In addition, the Information Services Department can work with our clients to ensure that there is interoperability between the technological resources of our firm and those of our clients. For more information on our firm's technological resources, please click here.

Our firm works hard to gain the advantages of computer-aided research, while avoiding some of the costs associated therewith. One method that our lawyers employ to further this goal is to use the free resources available on the Internet. For research links, please click here.

GDLD's lawyers are committed to serving both bar and community. Our lawyers have published in a variety of areas, addressing both the skill of trial advocacy and substantive areas of law. For a summary of articles recently written by GDLD lawyers and how to obtain copies, please click here.

Our firm's lawyers donate substantial time to pro bono work and to a variety of community activities. For more information regarding our firm's pro bono work, please click here.

Our firm's lawyers are always happy to speak to groups of any size on issues relating to our practice. For more information about our Speaker's Bureau, please click here.

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP, recognizes that success in the court room begins with bringing the best professional talent to all levels of our firm. For more information about our firm's recruiting practices and policies, please click here.

If you need more background information about our firm, or if you would like to speak with one of our attorneys, please use the "contact us" feature of this Web site.

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