Matthew Baum

I am an attorney licensed to practice law in Maryland and in the District of Columbia. I have offices located in downtown Baltimore, Catonsville, and in Columbia, Maryland. My practice areas include criminal defense, family law, estate planning, and civil litigation. I am a member of multiple local bar associations and the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorney's Association.  Above all else, I am committed to putting my clients at the center of my law practice. 

I began my legal career as an attorney with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender in Baltimore, Maryland. As an Assistant Public Defender I spent thousands of hours in court defending criminal cases involving drugs, theft, assault, weapons, and serious traffic violations. There I gained a good knowledge of Maryland criminal law, evidence rules, and the U.S. and Maryland Constitutions. Unlike many of my peers in private practice who began their legal careers as prosecutors, I have never handled a criminal case where my client’s personal freedom or property was not at stake.

Prior to law school, I received my Bachelor of Arts degree at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. There I completed the school’s four-year Great Books Program, a course of study that uses only primary sources and roughly equals a double major in Philosophy and History of Math.  My pre-law work experience included working as a technology consultant to the advertising industry in San Francisco and teaching English as a foreign langugae in Surin, Thailand.

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