Ronald A. Karp - Ron Karp, the firm's managing partner, is the immediate past president of the Washington D.C. chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a nationwide organization of experienced (plaintiff and defense) trial lawyers committed to improving the ethical and technical standards of advocacy. Ron is a former president of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. and former president of the George Washington Inns of Court. He is a recipient of the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award and was selected to appear in Best Lawyers in America (a publication that is based on interviews with other lawyers and lists less than 1% of the lawyers in the United States), and Ron was listed in the December 2007 edition of "Washingtonian Magazine" as one of the "Best Lawyers" in the D.C. metropolitan area.  Most recently, Ron was selected as a Washington, D.C. "Super Lawyer" for 2008, to go along with his listing as a Maryland "Super Lawyer" for 2007. 

Ron currently appears in the new Millennium Edition of Who's Who in American Law, and is listed in Who's Who in America. He is a frequent lecturer at trial lawyer seminars, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. Ron has been lead counsel in a number of recent high profile cases which have been referenced in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, People Magazine and various network television programs, including his representation of former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose in his successful First Amendment battle to publish his book, "Three Weeks in October." Last year Ron concluded a successful sexual harassment trial against a Fortune 500 Company. Most recently, Ron chaired a seminar at the American University Law School in Washington, D.C. on representing victims of terrorism.