Profile
Charles S. Fax is a partner at Rifkin, Livingston, Levitan & Silver, LLC, located in Bethesda, Maryland, that represents commercial clients statewide. Mr. Fax's practice at the firm emphasizes business litigation and corporate/contractual disputes, including business fraud, insurance coverage, business defamation and executive employment disputes. Representative clients include law firms, closely held corporations, broker-dealers, trustees and business executives. Mr. Fax holds an AV Preeminent* peer-review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in the Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law publications. In 2006, Washington Smart CEO magazine named Mr. Fax one of Greater Washington's "Legal Elite."
Mr. Fax is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (B.A. 1970) and George Washington University Law School (J.D. 1973, with Honors), where he was a member of the National Moot Court Team. Mr. Fax is a member of bar associations of Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C., and is licensed to practice in federal circuit courts throughout the country and the United States Supreme Court.
*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.
About Charles Fax
Law School: The George Washington University Law School
Admitted: 1990, Maryland
Professional Webpage: www.rlls.com/professionals/charles-s-fax/
Honors and Awards:
- Member of the National Moot Court Team, George Washington University Law School
- With Honors, George Washington University Law School
- Listed Who's Who in American Law Publications
- Listed in the Who's Who in America
- AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell
- Named one of "Greater Washington's Legal Elite", Washington Smart CEO Magazine, 2006
Special Licenses/Certifications:
- Licensed to practice in Federal Circuit Courts throughout the Country and the United States Supreme Court
Bar/Professional Activity:
- For several years, Mr. Fax served as Online Editor of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation "Litigation News," a monthly magazine distributed to the more than 70,000 members of the ABA Section of Litigation. Since the autumn of 2008, he has been an Associate Editor of the Section's redesigned "Litigation News," and he writes a regular column for that publication entitled "Civil Procedure Update."
- Washington, D.C.
- New York
- Maryland
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Mr. Fax is National Vice President, Campaign, and National Campaign Chairman of the Jewish National Fund, an organization that raises in excess of $55 million annually in the United States toward improvement of the environment in Israel, including water technology, soil reclamation, agricultural research and development, development of the desert and afforestation.
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Co-Author of Three Legal Texts "Discovery Problems and Their Solutions", ABA Publishing, 444 pp, (with Hon. Paul Grimm and Paul Mark Sandler, Esq.), 2005
- "Inadvertent Disclosure of ESI and 'Reasonable Care,'" Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Fall, 2008
- "Maryland Discovery Problems and Solutions" MICPEL, June, 450 pp., 2008
- "Rule 26 to Change," Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Winter, 2009
- "Twombly Rules", Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Vol. 34, No. 3, Spring, 2009
- "Solutions for a Justice System 'In Serious Need of Repair,'" Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Vol. 34, No. 4, Summer, 2009
- "Sunshine in Litigation Act Might Finally See the Light of Day," Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Vol. 35, No. 1, Fall, 2009
- "Discovery Problems and Their Solutions, Second Edition", ABA Publishing, August, 550 pp, 2009
- Adjunct Professor "Discovery Practice and Procedure" University of Baltimore School of Law, Commencing in the Fall Term, 2010
- "Technical Amendments to Rules in 2009 Presage Further Changes in 2010", Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Vol. 35, No. 2, Winter, 2010
- "Professionalism Undermined by Misconduct in Deposition", Litigation News, ABA Section of Litigation, Vo. 35, No. 3, Spring, 2010
Educational Background:
- Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1970
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