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Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum is a passionate and forceful legal representative for individuals with disabilities and their families who require services or supports from state or federal government and for those who require accommodations from employers or service providers. She aggressively advocates for special education and support services for children and their families and for developmental and mental health services for adults. Sharon has represented college and university students with disabilities in Americans with Disabilities Act litigation to ensure that they have equal access to their curriculum and other services offered by the universities. Sharon also represents parents with disabilities in child protection proceedings and other family law matters. She is also a kind and gentle advocate for seniors and their families.
Sharon serves as counsel or in an advisory capacity to disability advocacy organizations throughout the State of Maryland and is often asked to speak at annual conferences and training programs. She has served on the faculty of The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Delaware and speaks regularly for the Maryland Association of Community Services (MACS).
Sharon is equally passionate and forceful in her representation of non-profit and for-profit entities that provide supports and services to individuals with disabilities and the elderly, whether serving as a proactive general counsel or as an aggressive advocate for her corporate clients. In her representation of community-based mental health and addiction service providers, organizations that provide housing and support services to individuals with developmental disabilities, senior care providers (including nursing homes and assisted living), and providers of personal home care and durable medical equipment, Sharon understands and appreciates the difficult balance her clients must achieve as business entities and service providers.
As a former Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Sharon has built the knowledge, experience and relationships with regulators that allow her to counsel and defend health care providers effectively in actions involving licensure and regulatory compliance. She also uses this experience to represent individual health care practitioners before professional disciplinary boards and to represent parents who find themselves the subject of abuse and neglect accusations by local departments of social services.
In partnership with others at Brown, Goldstein & Levy, Sharon works to provide her clients with the legal talents that will best serve their needs, whether through advocacy, education, litigation, or negotiation. Sharon considers it an honor to serve as a member of the legal community and to serve her clients with compassion and a sense of pride in her work.
Sharon looks forward to continuing to share her extensive experience, passion, and sense of justice with her clients and welcomes others to consider her as their legal advisor.
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Acquired: 1987
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120 East Baltimore Street, Suite 2500, Baltimore, MD, 21202
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Posted by anonymous | February 28, 2013
Sharon knows the State of Maryland disabilty system, particularly the government so well that issues get solved that never are possible to solve any other way. Not only does she know the law, but she is an exceptional negotiator. She listens well to our issues and what we want the outcome to be, ad...
Posted by anonymous | September 8, 2012
We have an adult, developmentally disabled daughter, and as a consequence we have worked with many excellent special needs attorneys. In our opinion, Sharon brings the best of all the qualities and skills necessary to successfully represent a person with special needs or a family with a special nee...
Posted by Diane | September 5, 2012
I have known Sharon Krevor Weisbaum for over 15 years and have found her to be an outstanding attorney. I am the CEO of a nonprofit organization and Sharon has represented my company on two occasions. Both times she was thorough, taking the time to understand my business and the facts from our pers...
Posted by Jay | September 5, 2012
My business lawyer. Allows me to speak and ask all the questions I feel I need to ask and NEVER has made them feel ever small. She has provided excellent advice for litigation and difficult contract reviews, protecting me as a client and my clients as well. She gives insight and removes the emotio...
"Sharon is as great a lawyer as she is a person and couples her approach to practice with a deep humanity and concern for the people that she works with and for. She is a true professional and a credit to the Maryland bar."
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2018
Best Lawyer, Health Care, Best Lawyers in America
2018
2018 Benjamin L. Cardin Public Service Award, University of Maryland Carey School of Law Alumni
2017
Maryland Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine
2017
Maryland's Top 100 Women, The Daily Record
2017
Leadership in Law, The Daily Record
2016
Maryland Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Magazine
2015
Maryland Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine
2014
Maryland Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine
2014
Top 50 Women, Super Lawyers Magazine
2013
Maryland Super Lawyers, Super Lawyers Magazine
2008
Award for Advocacy Leadership In Memory of Stanley S. Herr, Arc of Baltimore
2007
Maryland's Top 100 Women, The Daily Record
2007
Bernard A. Gould Award/ Benefitting Persons with Disabilities, Arc of Maryland
1996
Award for Outstanding Legal Service in the Disability Field, Office of the Attorney General
1991
Pro Bono Award, Office of the Attorney General
2016 - Present
Managing Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
2001 - 2015
Partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
1998 - 2000
Of Counsel, Stein & Schonfeld
1990 - 1998
Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Maryland Attorney General
1988 - 1990
Staff Attorney, Office Of The Maryland Attorney General
1986 - 1987
Acting Director, Public Justice Center
1979 - 1982
Legislative Assistant, U.S. House Of Representatives, Committee on Public Works and Transportation (Congress)
2014 - Present
Public Justice CenterAdvisory Committee
2014 - Present
Maryland Department of Health and Mental HygieneTask Force on Services for Ind. with Dev. Disabilities
2013 - Present
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA)Member
2011 - Present
Network 2000Member
2010 - Present
First Maryland Disability Trust, Inc.Board Member
2010 - Present
Habonim Dror Camp MoshavaBoard Member
2010 - Present
Maryland State Bar AssociationElder Law Section Council
2006 - Present
The Public Justice CenterBoard of Directors
Member
Faculty
Member
2012 - 2016
Executive Alliance, previously Network 2000Philanthropy Committee
2012 - 2014
Executive Alliance, previously Network 2000Business 2000 Award Committee
2007 - 2012
Arc of MarylandLegal Advisory Committee
2006 - 2008
Bolton Street SynagogueSecretary
1998 - 2008
Maryland State Bar AssociationMember
Obtained $1.9M settlement on behalf of the parents of a young man with Down syndrome who was killed by deputy sheriffs
Motion for a preliminary injunction was granted - UMBC to provide Jean with accessible electronic copies; a note taker
Special needs child receives Braille instruction.
Special Education services for a blind child.
After a nearly ten-day hearing, the administrative law judge ordered the district to provide Braille instruction and three years of compensatory services.
$150,000 Settlement
1987
JD - Juris Doctor, with Honors
1984
MA - Masters
1979
BA - Bachelor of Arts, with Distinction
2015
Setting the Stage: Legal Precedents & Higher Education Obligation
2015
2014
Guardianship and Other Alternatives
2014
Disability Discrimination in Health Care Settings: How to Ensure Equal Access and Avoid Violations of the Law
2014
Parental Rights "How-To" Workshop
2014
2013
2012
Inaccessibility of the e-readers utilized by the Free Library of Philadelphia
2011
2010
Do I Really Need a Guardian?
2010
Health Care Decision Making for Students With Disabilities
2009
2009
A Delicate Balance: Supporting Choice While Minimizing Risk
2007
Difficult Life Decisions We All Need to Consider
2007
Risk Management Strategies
2007
Surrogate Decision Making
2006
HealthCare Decision Making
2006
Are There Alternativies to Guardianship That Will Work for Our Family?
2018
2017
2017
2014
2011
English