About Bill Glose

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A combat veteran and former paratrooper, Bill Glose is the author of five books of poetry and one book of fiction, All the Ruined Men, published in 2022 by St. Martin’s Press. A regular contributor to Super Lawyers, his work has also appeared in numerous publications, including Army Times, The Writer, Narrative Magazine and The Sun. His honors include the F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Award, the Robert Bausch Fiction Award, and the Dateline Award for Excellence in Journalism. Glose was named the Daily Press Poet Laureate in 2011 and featured by NPR on The Writer’s Almanac in 2017. He maintains a page of helpful information for writers on his website BillGlose.com.

Articles written by Bill Glose

The Untouchables

Whether defending public enemy No.1 or Baltimore’s most reviled organization, Joshua Treem takes the clients no one else will

It’s the question Joshua Treem, partner at Brown Goldstein & Levy, hears all the time, usually punctuated with raised eyebrows: You represented the D.C. sniper? “Yes,” he says. “But it was a short-lived representation.” Then he leans forward. Most of the time Treem’s manner is as casual as his rolled-up sleeves, but this makes him angry.  “It was short-lived because [then-Attorney General] John Ashcroft had the marshals kidnap Mr. Malvo, and take him across the river to the …

Notes on How to Beat Claire Cardwell

But they won't work any better for you than they did for the feds

The church's steeple rose into a clear blue sky above Jackson Ward, one of Richmond’s poorest black neighborhoods. It was in the mid-’90s, a Christmas service was about to begin, and something remarkable struck Claire Cardwell from her back-row seat: the congregants settling into the pews were mostly women. So many of Jackson Ward’s men were either already buried or locked away. Cardwell, an athletic blonde with a layered pageboy and a heart-shaped face, received a flyer at her office …

The Human Touch

Kerry D. Staton is such a good lawyer he almost bankrupted Baltimore

“He’s a superb lawyer.” That testimonial is not from one of Kerry D. Staton’s colleagues or clients but from his opposition: personal injury defense attorney M. Natalie McSherry, a principal at Kramon & Graham, who has battled numerous times with Staton. “He not only knows the law,” she says, “but he has a human touch: down-to-earth and practical. That’s what makes him so effective. I wish I had more cases against him. I would probably lose more, but it would be more …

The Kansas Peach

Ty Cobb, a distant relative of the famous ballplayer, is a big gun on whom powerful people rely

Once when Ty Cobb, a partner at Hogan Lovells, was trying a case before a particularly cantankerous judge, he wondered if he should worry when the judge asked him to approach the bench. Cobb was a young lawyer at the time, cocky and given to cracking the occasional joke to the jury. It was only his third time before this particular judge, who was known for dressing down lawyers for missteps. The opposing counsel rose with Cobb, but the judge waved him away. When Cobb approached, the judge …

The Brain Behind Brain Injuries

Irvin Cantor brings light to the mysteries of traumatic brain injury

If you’re a client of Irvin Cantor, partner at Cantor, Stoneburner, Ford, Grana & Buckner, be prepared to get a little uncomfortable. “I’ve got to be intrusive,” says the Richmond attorney, who specializes in brain injuries. “I’m going to ask about their sleep, their sex lives, their bodily functions, their emotions—everything. Brain injury can affect all those things. I’ve had a couple people look at me and say, ‘That’s not your business. Why are you asking me that?’ …

Across The Aisle Style

Benjamin Rosenberg wants to beat his opponents, not beat them down

Yes, Benjamin Rosenberg has gotten witnesses to credit his good lawyering right from the stand, and yes, he’s so iconic in Maryland law that a bobblehead was created in his likeness as part of his firm’s 25th anniversary fete. But to fully appreciate what Rosenberg, founder and chairman of Rosenberg Martin Greenberg, adds to a case, one needs only to study his behavior in 2014’s Bob Smith Automotive Group Inc., et al. v. Ally Financial Inc. Rosenberg, a business litigation and appellate …

Media Player

Craig T. Merritt is the first lawyer to call in Virginia’s First Amendment cases

At almost six and a half feet tall, Craig T. Merritt takes long, slow strides when he walks the hallways of his firm, a gait as deliberate as his thought process. His size advantage might be intimidating but he doesn’t use it to intimidate. The opposite. “His demeanor is polite, professional and very relaxed,” says Ginger Stanley, executive director of the Virginia Press Association. “I’ve watched judges become relaxed by just talking to him.” Merritt, a partner at Christian & …

The Queen of Consensus

If you build it, disparate parties will come to the table. At least, they will for Deborah Garza

Deborah Garza has reason to brag. Consider the presidential appointment, her reputation as a colossus in antitrust law, not to mention her impressive career, 33 years and counting, which includes landmark cases such as the $81 billion merger of Exxon and Mobil, U.S. v. Microsoft and the USFL’s suit against the NFL. But bragging isn’t what she does. With short-cropped hair and reading glasses that sway from her neck, the soft-spoken Garza brings to mind a friendly local librarian. Diminutive …

Killing Them with Kindness

Plaintiff’s lawyers hate to face Donald L. DeVries Jr. in a courtroom because he is so darn nice

Donald L. DeVries Jr. stares at the Inner Harbor from his 20th-floor office in downtown Baltimore. His hometown is 10 miles away. A few streets over stands the Baltimore firm where he started out and became a partner. Finally there’s One South Street, home to Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, a boutique litigation firm he and his partners founded 25 years ago. DeVries grew up in Ruxton, just north of the city border but within the I-695 beltway. His father was vice president of Koppers Co., …

In Brad Lerman’s Submarine

Fannie Mae’s general counsel has one rule for his legal ship—work together or perish together

“An outside counsel sometimes believes that the lawyers are the most important thing handling the most important things to any company’s success,” says Brad Lerman, who, since October 2012, has served as the executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Federal National Mortgage Association, or, as it’s better known, Fannie Mae. “The in-house lawyer gets a different perspective. The ability to marshal resources and get the right decision-makers and understand …

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