Rignal W. Baldwin

Rignal W. Baldwin is a trial attorney who focuses on business litigation, personal injury, professional liability and products liability. He also serves as a court-appointed mediator for the federal and state courts, and is a member of Maryland ADR Services, Inc., an organization of active trial attorneys and retired judges trained and certified for alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Baldwin is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, peer recognition of the top one percent of trial attorneys in the nation. He has been inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates, peer designated in the Best Lawyers in America publication, and selected by his colleagues as one of the top trial and alternative dispute resolution attorneys in the Washington, D.C. and Maryland Super Lawyers publications. Mr. Baldwin is included through peer evaluation in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™, and is a recipient of the Maryland Bar Foundation Professional Legal Excellence Award for the Advancement of Professional Competence.

He is past chair of the Maryland State Bar Judicial Appointments Committee, past chair and a current member of the Professionalism Committee, past chair of the Committee on Laws, a member of the ABA Litigation Section, and a former member of the Maryland Court of Appeals Commission on Professionalism. Mr. Baldwin has served as a faculty member for the Maryland Institute for Continuing Legal Education and NITA programs for the continuing legal education of attorneys, and a faculty member for the professionalism course required for admission to practice in Maryland. He has been elected as a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference and the Maryland Bar Foundation. He has been admitted pro hac vice and tried cases in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, Colorado, Pennsylvania, California, Delaware and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and, he serves as Maryland counsel for national and international law firms.

Mr. Baldwin graduated from Dickinson College (B.A. 1969) and from the University of Baltimore School of Law with Honors (J.D. 1975), where he was editor-in-chief of the University of Baltimore Law Review. Prior to law school, Mr. Baldwin served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps and was honorably discharged at the rank of captain in 1972.