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F. Kirk Kolodner
Telephone: 410-539-5195 Email: KKolodner@AdelbergRudow.com |
Kirk Kolodner is a trial lawyer with extensive trial litigation experience in many diverse areas of law. He has been practicing law in Maryland since 1980. His practice areas include family law, business and commercial litigation, personal injury, real estate litigation, estate and trust litigation, and general civil litigation involving complex suits before federal and state courts. As a trial attorney, Mr. Kolodner asserts his client's interests aggressively, but he is aware of the costs and risks involved in litigation. He has significant experience strategizing and analyzing litigation issues, and he handles all aspects of litigation from investigation, negotiation, pre-trial discovery and motions, to the trial and appeal. As chair of the firm's litigation practice, Mr. Kolodner also coordinates the firm's litigation among its 23 lawyers. Recent cases he handled include:
In a nine day trial in 1998 in Baltimore County, he successfully represented a woman in obtaining custody of her five year old daughter, even though the mother had denied the father access to the child by going "underground" for two years out of fear that the child's father had sexually abused the child.
In 1999, he successfully filed suit in Montgomery County for an apartment building owner to force the building's purchaser to consummate the $9.1 million sale.
In 2000, Mr. Kolodner obtained a significant jury verdict for injuries his client, a judge, sustained in a car accident.
In a case filed in Harford County, he successfully forced a bank to pay $500,000 to its landlord by proving that the bank's merger with another bank violated the lease.
In 2003, he successfully defended a suit brought by the holder of a "right of first refusal" to purchase his client's 92 acre Potomac, Maryland farm, thereby enabling his client to sell the land to another at a much higher price.
In a family law dispute, he established new law by convincing the Maryland Court of Special Appeals in 2003 that his client's $80,000 country club membership was not "marital property" and should not have been considered by the trial judge as an asset in the divorce case because the club membership could not be sold, transferred or pledged.
Also in 2003, after forcing the removal of the personal representative of an estate who had neglected his duties, Mr. Kolodner successfully sued the personal representative on behalf of the estate beneficiaries.
In a suit filed in 2003 involving the validity of an adult adoption proceeding, he successfully represented clients, who had been adopted as adults by their older half-brother. As a result, they succeeded in inheriting several million dollars from the estate of their half-brother's grandfather.
He has served as a volunteer attorney for the Maryland Volunteer Lawyer's Service, and he has served on the Board of Directors of several community organizations. He also has served as President of the Mount Washington Swimming Club, Inc. in Baltimore. Mr. Kolodner and his wife, Betsy F. Ringel, live in Baltimore City with their children.
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Education: B. A., Lawrence University, 1975 |
Professional Memberships: Association of Trial Lawyers of America Bar Association of Baltimore City Baltimore County Bar Association Maryland Trial Lawyers Association American Bar Association
Reported Cases:
AT&T Wireless Services v. Mayor and City Council, 123 Md.App. 681, Schaefer v. Cusack, 124 Md.App. 288, 722 A.2d 73 (1998) Townsend Properties, Inc. v. Z.N., Inc., 1995 WL 375595 (D.Md.). |