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Meet Robert L. Ferguson, Jr.
Meet Robert L. Ferguson, Jr.
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i really enjoy the aspect of helping
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people
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i mostly represent people who get sued
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and they’re often in a
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predicament that they never expected to
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be faced with
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i can not only help them understand the
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process
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uh but i fortunately have been able to
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successfully depend
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people who in my opinion were wrong
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wrongfully accused
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i enjoy the intellectual challenges
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i’ve had some very fascinating cases
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handled cases of first impression
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that get taken to the appellate courts
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tried
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probably over 150 jury trials uh had
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more than 50 appellate cases and through
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all that
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i think i’ve developed the skills that
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give me confidence and
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have helped me to be successful i have
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experienced some
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enormous client appreciation they
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returned to me to help them with
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successive problems
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i had an incident back in 2002 where i
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represented a general contractor
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who was a really stand-up guy
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his project had a terrible accident
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where
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at least three people were killed and
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the number of people were injured and
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over a period of year and a half we
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negotiated settlements in all of those
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cases
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without ever going to trial without ever
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filing a lawsuit
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he calls me every year on the day of
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that accident
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and thanks me for saving his company
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i began to think about becoming a lawyer
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when i was in undergraduate school i was
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studying in electrical engineering
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i realized that in the profession i was
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about to embark on that
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contracts would be important knowledge
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of the law would be important
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i debated between law school and
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an mba program turns out my best friend
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in undergraduate school was applying to
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law school
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we talked about it and i decided to do
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that
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we were both accepted to the same law
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school i found that
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becoming a lawyer gave me the ability to
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be
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independent and self-sufficient and that
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was important to me
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well i’ve been fortunate to uh be
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recognized
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by a number of organizations for my
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uh professional accomplishments i’m most
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proud of being
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asked to be a fellow of the american
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college of trial lawyers
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that’s an organization that you enter
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not
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by applying but only by invitation after
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a quite lengthy process
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of them investigating your trial
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experience your professionalism and your
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skill
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without your knowledge and then you get
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the call and it’s a very
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uh surprising honor i also
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had the privilege of being awarded a
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shared
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award in 1996 by the maryland bar
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foundation
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an award for professional excellence i
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shared that with two other lawyers
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we worked on what they called the
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russell commission at the time
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and that was a commission that studied
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the drug crisis and underfunding of the
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courts
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i met some extraordinary people during
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that process
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and it led to the development of drug
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treatment courts
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in most of the counties in our state
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later in 2007
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the power association of baltimore city
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awarded me the charles dorsey mentoring
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award
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one of my favorite pastimes is mentoring
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other lawyers
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in 2016 i received the
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daily record leadership in law award
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i was one of probably about
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50 lawyers who got different different
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awards in different fields
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Baltimore, MD commercial litigation attorney Robert L. Ferguson, Jr. talks shares why he became a lawyer, the rewards of his practice, and the honors & awards he’s received.
