Rockville, Maryland
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Sterling G. Mead was born and raised in Washington, D.C. in 1971. He attended Randolph Macon College on a partial academic scholarship, played football, and won numerous awards for his participation in intercollegiate debate, including competing against Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge and other elite schools. He graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law with a concentration in business law and litigation.
Mr. Mead has worked in the legal profession since 1994. He was as a personal injury and collections paralegal for private law firm in Bethesda, Maryland, then he worked as a litigation and creditor's rights clerk at a larger Maryland law firm, and finally clerked for an insurance defense litigation firm in Rockville, Maryland.
Mr. Mead opened the Law Office of Sterling G. Mead, LLC in 2001, after working as a litigation associate in Rockville, Maryland. Mr. Mead handles a wide variety of needs for his individual and regional and national business clients. A large portion of the practice is devoted to civil litigation including; governmental regulatory proceedings and litigation, appellate practice, creditors rights, family law (e.g. divorce & custody), contract disputes, shareholder disputes, real property litigation (e.g. eminent domain and ownership) and business related employment issues for medical, dental and business entities. Mr. Mead's services are as outside general counselor to both individuals and business client, taking the lead in most litigation issues, and assisting client to find the best advice and counseling.
Mr. Mead concentrates his criminal defense practice to white collar criminal defense matters and quasi-criminal regulatory actions such as alleged security exchange violations, Attorney General actions, and HUD enforcement actions. Additionally, Mr. Mead represents individuals charged with driving under the influence of alcohol or other serious traffic offenses in Maryland.
Recent highlights of Mr. Mead's representation include a National Football League arbitration, defense of regulatory litigation by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, defending a Housing and Urban Development action for alleged fraud, appearing in the highest court in Maryland on municipal eminent domain power issues, and concluding several private shareholder disputes. In the criminal defense arena, Mr. Mead recently avoided a conviction for a multiple offender of the driving under the influence laws, restored the driving privileges to another client based on the police officer's invalid traffic stop, and obtain dismissals of other traffic charges based on lack of jurisdiction for the police officer. Mr. Mead represents clients in various courts, including the Maryland courts and Federal District Court, but also in various administrative actions against such agencies as the Motor Vehicle Administration, WSSC, the Public Utilities Commission, mediation and arbitrations, etc.
Representative clients include, Ace World Wide Moving & Storage, W.C. & A.N. Miller Development Co., Early, Cassidy & Schilling Insurance Co., Cognito, Inc., DSI, Inc., Adoptions Together, Inc., Great Events South, LLC, Wallace & Wallace Insurance Co., The Right Mover, LLC, Miller Home Services, LLC, Abbotts Management Company, Inc., JP Delphey Limited Partnership, Dr. Richard M. Williams, LLC, Capitaol Office Systems, Inc., and the Fallsgrove Center for Dentistry.
Mr. Mead is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the District Court of Maryland Bar Association, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, American Bar Association, Maryland Lawyers Association, Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association, and the Montgomery County Maryland Bar Association.
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