Walter Laake | Greenbelt Personal Injury Lawyer | Maryland

• Mr. Laake is past President (2004-2005) of the 1200-member Maryland Association for Justice, formerly the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association.
  
  Mr. Laake is past President (1996-1997) of the Prince George's County Bar Association.
  
  Mr. Laake is a member of the nationwide Million Dollar Advocates Forum which is limited to select attorneys who have recovered $1 million or more for their clients.
  
  Mr. Laake has served for more than 15 years on the Judicial Nominating Commission which interviews and recommends candidates to the governor for appointment to the District and Circuit Courts for the Seventh Judicial Circuit.
  
  He was selected for membership in Outstanding Lawyers of America which is limited to 100 lawyers from the 31,000 members of the Maryland bar.
  
  He was appointed by the Seventh Judicial Circuit to serve on the Bar Advisory Committee for the Civil Differentiated Case Management System subsequently adopted by the Court.
  
   Mr. Laake was also appointed by the Seventh Judicial Circuit to serve as a Court approved arbitrator/mediator of personal injury cases and has handled more than 100 binding and non-binding arbitrations and mediations over the past several years.
  

• Bar Registry of Pre-Eminent Practitioners since 1993.
  
  Recommended by the Washingtonian Magazine in its Best Lawyers of Washington addition on more than 1 occasion.
  
  Life Member of the 40,000-member American Association for Justice
  
  Since 1993, he has been awarded the highest rating for legal ability: defined as very high to pre-eminent, by the nation's largest and oldest legal rating service, Martindale Hubbell.
  
  Since 2008 Walter Laake was honored to be included in the prestigious publication Super Lawyers in both its Maryland and Washington, D.C. editions

• In 2011, a $1 million recovery was obtained from the U.S. Government in a Federal Tort Claim Act medical malpractice case causing the death of a disabled husband and father of four. The maximum cap on non-economic damages available to the family was $812,500.00. The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. In 2009, a case was brought in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia against a DC hospital for negligence by its resident in allowing a three month old infant’s blood sugar level to drop to 20 mg/dl for a prolonged period of time resulting in severe brain injury and a $4.5 million settlement. In 2007, a judgment in the amount of $500,018.90 including costs was entered in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland for legal malpractice against an attorney whose actions caused his client's personal injury claim for the loss of an eye to be dismissed by the court. $500,000 was all that had been sought in the original lawsuit. In 2006, a case was brought in Superior Court for the District of Columbia that resulted in an $800,000 settlement for a patient who went into a DC hospital for a routine laparoscopic gynecological procedure and suffered a perforated bowel which could have been fatal. In 2004, Mr. Laake obtained a $700,000 recovery for a 50-year-old Air Force major forced to retire on disability due to a frontal lobe brain injury caused by a defective product, i.e., an Anthony & Sylvan Pool defective water filter which exploded striking Plaintiff in the forehead and leaving him with a permanent head injury.

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