Booth M. Ripke, Attorney

PRACTICE FOCUS AND EXPERIENCE

Booth Ripke has more then 10 years of experience as a criminal defense litigator.  He has successfully defended a full range of cases - from major federal felonies to state court misdemeanors.  Recently, his advocacy was critical in winning the release of Walter Lomax, who had been wrongly imprisoned for 39 years.

Mr. Ripke's practice is primarily focused on white collar, appellate and post-conviction criminal matters. Before joining Nathans & Biddle, Mr. Ripke worked as an associate in the Baltimore office of Bennett & Nathans, an associate in the Washington, D.C., office of King & Spalding, practicing white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation, and was a law clerk to the Hon. Charles B. Day of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Mr. Ripke was recently selected for inclusion on the 2009 Super Lawyers Maryland Rising Stars list, featuring outstanding young lawyers in the state.

ACTIVITIES, PUBLICATIONS & SPEECHES

Mr. Ripke is a graduate of the Maryland Bar Association's Leadership Academy program and remains active mentoring current participants in the program. He also teaches Legal Research and Writing at the University of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Ripke was elected in 2007 to become a Fellow of the Maryland Bar, an honor reserved for only 1% of the members of the state bar. In 2003 Mr. Ripke was voted the Adjunct Professor of the Year at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he lectures on pre-trial litigation and appellate practice.

EDUCATION AND BAR ADMISSIONS

Mr. Ripke is an honors graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law (1998), and graduated Order of the Coif with a fellowship in the study of mental health law. Mr. Ripke is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.