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Daniella Prieshoff: Empathy and Advocacy for Immigrant Clients

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Madeleine O’Neill

There were several inflection points that helped Daniella Prieshoff, J.D. ’12, become the passionate advocate for immigrant survivors of gender-based violence that she is today.

As an undergraduate, Prieshoff took an advocacy and literature class that focused on the legal rights afforded to immigrants and got her reading great civil-rights thinkers.

An internship with a Maryland legislator helped her decide to pursue a career as a lawyer.

And UBalt Law’s Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic honed Prieshoff’s litigation skills while allowing her to work on cases involving immigrants and migrant workers.

Now, Prieshoff is senior managing attorney at Tahirih Justice Center in Baltimore, a position that allows her to advocate for women and children who have experienced human trafficking, sexual assault, abuse and torture and are eligible for certain immigration protections. It’s a job that has become increasingly difficult during the current immigration crackdown.

Prieshoff’s clients are frightened that they are no longer safe in the United States, even under special programs for crime victims and other groups that have existed for decades. Some are too scared to leave their homes amid raids by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. And abusers are taking advantage of these fears, threatening to get victims deported if they don’t stay quiet, Prieshoff says.

“These clients are some of the bravest people I know,” she says. “Even though they’re afraid to access these resources and protections, they still insist on reporting crimes, on cooperating with police, on attending these court hearings, testifying in criminal hearings, and exposing their unstable status to the world.”

“They’re still doing that because they believe that they want to live in a safe community, and they want to help make sure other people do, too. So this climate of fear is not helping anybody,” she says.

That climate is particularly challenging for Prieshoff, a naturalized citizen who was born in Ecuador and lived all over the world as the daughter of a military dad. Prieshoff sees this as a double-edged sword: as a Spanish speaker who understands the immigration system, she feels a greater responsibility to serve. But the Trump administration has also targeted immigration attorneys and slashed funding to organizations that help immigrant communities, making the work feel more daunting than ever.

Prieshoff takes comfort in seeing the results of her work. When a client gets a work permit and can finally support her child, or receives asylum after a drawn-out legal battle, it shows that justice is still available.

Prieshoff’s dedication to her clients shows in court, says Lisa Dornell, a former immigration judge and mentor to Prieshoff.

“I could tell she really cared,” Dornell says. “Especially when you’re dealing with such a vulnerable population, as a judge, you want to be certain that the clients are receiving quality advocacy, and she definitely provided that.”

Earlier in her career, Prieshoff worked as a senior attorney at Kids in Need of Defense, representing unaccompanied children in the immigration system, and at Farmworker Legal Services of Michigan. It was there that she realized how many migrant farm workers are subjected to sexual harassment and assault. Being undocumented put them at even greater risk for exploitation, she says. She began seeking a way to do more immigration-related work that encompassed the social dynamics she was seeing.

“I realized that immigration was so crucial to a farm worker or any undocumented person accessing stability and safety, and I realized also that sexual assault was so much more prevalent than we realize,” she says. “I was looking for a way to contribute more.”

The search led her back to the Tahirih Justice Center, and to Baltimore, in 2021. As senior managing attorney, she now has an opportunity to mentor others, like Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow Kimberly Mariano. Mariano said Prieshoff is attentive to her mental health, given the difficult subject matter they deal with at the Tahirih Center, and she allows Mariano to learn on her own while never letting her feel alone in the work.

“The way Danielle mentors specifically, I’ve definitely grown and learned to be more confident in my skills,” Mariano says. “I think a lot of people need that, as well. Having confidence in the work you’re doing, building relationships with other people, and also having confidence in your ability to advocate for your clients.”

Even with the challenges of the new presidential administration, Prieshoff says she sees herself continuing to do this work “for the foreseeable future.”

“Right now it’s a much more challenging time, but I do see that there’s a lot more to fight for and there’s a lot more to believe in that really keeps you motivated,” she says. “I feel like I am really needed, and I feel like I can still contribute more.”

Madeleine O’Neill is a writer based in Baltimore.

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William McCarthy: Meaning is Found in Helping Others

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Adam Stone

William McCarthy, J.D. ’87, retired recently after 16 years as executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore, the state’s largest private provider of human services. He inaugurated or expanded a slew of programs there, and the organization grew exponentially under his leadership.

McCarthy says UBalt Law started him down the road to public service and helped to drive his success. “My legal training taught me to think things through in a long, logical way, with a healthy perspective,” he says. That matters, he adds, “because in every issue, there’s at least two sides, if not more.”

McCarthy took a winding road from law school to human services.

“I went to law school thinking I wanted to change the world: Seeking justice, representing people in the cases that mattered and that would bring about fundamental change,” he says. He started out in litigation at a small downtown Baltimore law firm and found that those cases didn’t actually bring about societal change.

From there he migrated to tax and estate work, and after a few years of doing that, “I realized I had become one of those regulatory or statutory lawyers,” he says. “I woke up one day — it was when our son Ryan was born — and I knew I wanted to do something different.”

He had done a lot of work on trusts and tax planning, “so I went to the First National Bank of Maryland, in the personal trust area,” he says. He rose through the ranks; a merger took him to M&T Bank, and from there became president of Baltimore-based SunTrust.

He was successful, but he still wasn’t saving the world. It took a family tragedy to get him back on that path.

A turning point

A daughter, Erinn, came along, “and when she was 11 — this would have been 18 years ago — she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer,” McCarthy says. “I watched her live every day with courage, grace and purpose, as she fought this terrible disease for 3½ years.”

Erinn spent 32 weeks in her first year in the hospital, receiving chemotherapy and a partial knee and femur replacement. “Then after a year, the cancer went into remission and she was able to stay up with school and continue her relationships with her friends,” he says.

But the cancer came back, with vigor. Before Erinn passed away, at age 14, her parents asked what they could do in her memory. At her request, the humanities building and fields at Maryvale Preparatory School are named in Erinn’s memory.

Improving lives

As McCarthy mourned the loss, he took a hard look at his next move.

“I wanted to do something where I knew that every day, what I did mattered: That people were being helped, lives were being improved, and our community was being made stronger,” he says. Then the top role at Catholic Charities opened up. “I’m a kid from west Baltimore who happens to be a lawyer, so I put my name in the hat.”

It was a logical fit, says former law school classmate and former Maryland First Lady Kendel Ehrlich, J.D. ’87. “He has the ability to make his point, often using humor and self-deprecation, giving his audience a warm feeling. I am sure this made him an effective fundraiser,” she says.

Another UBalt Law classmate, Hon. Kevin Mahoney, J.D.’87, a judge on the Harford County Circuit Court, recalls that as an attorney, “Bill was always trying to help people accomplish and achieve certain goals. So Catholic Charities was a natural shift for him — to be in a place where he could be just unequivocally be helping people and the community.”

(Full disclosure: Mahoney may be a tad biased, “I married Bill’s sister,” he notes.)

As McCarthy concludes his tenure at Catholic Charities, he says he’s proud of the organization’s “ability to respond to ever-changing needs in community,” from gun-violence reduction to opioid-crisis response to affordable senior housing.

And he says there’s always opportunity to do more — if people are willing to put in the work over the long haul.

“I am boldly optimistic,” he says. When it comes to generational poverty in particular, “these conditions didn’t occur overnight, and we have to have a longer view to fix them. There aren’t silver bullets. It takes continuous support and commitment, not just a passing interest.”

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.

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Kerri Smith: Rising Star in Baltimore Legal Community

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Christianna McCausland

Kerri Smith is having a moment. After graduating magna cum laude in 2012 from UBalt Law, she has built a career in real estate law at Silverman Thompson Slutkin White, where she became a partner earlier this year. An active participant in local, state and national bar associations, she was named one of the top 40 young lawyers in the nation by the American Bar Association in 2023, received the Edward F Shea Jr. Professionalism award from Maryland in 2024, and recently took the reins as president of the Baltimore Bar Foundation. Oh, and the governor recently appointed her to the board of trustees for the Office of the Public Defender.

If the Baltimore legal community has a rising star, it must be Kerri Smith.

Hon. Teresa Epps Cummings, J.D. ’02, an administrative law judge and immediate past president of Bar Association of Baltimore City, has advice for anyone who works with Smith: “Be ready to match her energy!” Cummings describes Smith as the epitome of a dedicated, hardworking leader. “Kerri puts her heart and soul into whatever project she has volunteered to handle,” she says. “She is a dependable team player who solves problems expeditiously and with a smile.”

Smith exudes positivity and high energy even on Zoom, sitting in her office at Silverman Thompson discussing her time at UBalt Law. After deciding to go to law school and knowing she wanted to stay near family in Baltimore, she chose UBalt on the recommendation of others in the profession. And it was early experiences at the school that set her on her career trajectory.

“The most important experience that really kicked everything off was the summer after my first year. I applied to the EXPLOR program and Professor [Byron] Warnken placed me with Judge Joe Murphy,” Smith recalls. Working in the Maryland Court of Appeals, she got her first exposure to litigation, which has grown to be one of her passions. And when she applied to be a law clerk at Silverman Thompson, Smith listed Murphy as a reference. In a made-in-Baltimore moment, it just so happens Murphy was then retiring and moving to Silverman Thompson to do mediation.

“I don’t know that that’s the reason they picked me to be a law clerk that year, but for me it was the confirmation that this was a place that I thought I would like,” says Smith. “It’s probably one of the things that made me decide to accept the position that summer.”

At Silverman Thompson she worked her way through many areas of law, but working in real estate she met Avery Strachan, her first mentor and someone she continues to work with today. While her work in real estate law covers a vast array of issues, she has a specialty in landlord-tenant law. “It appeals to me because it’s an area of law that changes all the time,” says Smith, explaining that the work involves local, state and federal laws and can be heard in all levels of the court.

“As someone who likes to litigate, it’s fun and it’s exciting to do a little bit of everything and be in different courts,” she continues. “When you’re in district court, you’re flying by the seat of your pants, and things are moving really quickly; but I also like the circuit court or federal court cases that are more complex and offer the opportunity to dig into legal research and writing. … The thing I like the most, really, is arguing about the law.”

With a career like Smith’s, it’s no surprise that she describes herself as someone who is a planner, not a procrastinator. She also does nothing by halves. When she was involved with the Young Lawyers Division at BABC, she helped plan its annual holiday event for youth in homeless shelters. But she wanted each child (about 200 of them) to also go home with a gift. So she kicked off a toy drive at Silverman Thompson that continues to this day. Then she got everyone involved in gathering back-to-school supplies. She now leads the firm’s community service initiatives and its Women’s Legal Network, which promotes intra-office mentorship and advancement.

An avid runner, Smith also volunteers with Athletes Serving Athletes. The group pairs “wingmen” like Smith to runners with mobility disabilities, enabling them to participate in mainstream running events using adaptive joggers. “We do other things outside of just running together, like an ice cream night, and it’s been really fun to do something I like to do on my own — running — but to also make this whole new group of friends I would have never otherwise encountered in my life.”

James P. Robinson, J.D. ’13, a partner at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, has worked with Smith at a number of organizations and says her passion for public service shines through in that work. He notes that she is deeply motivated by a desire to foster camaraderie and collaboration within the legal community.

“Kerri consistently demonstrates a remarkable willingness to help others,” says Robinson. “For example, I recently had a client in need of guidance on a residential real estate matter. I immediately thought of Kerri and reached out to her. Despite it being the weekend, she responded promptly and connected with the client within 24 hours. Her responsiveness, generosity with her time, and reliability exemplify the kind of professional — and person — she is.

Smith says that making friends, helping young lawyers learn how to be good lawyers, and supporting the legal and local community are the reasons she stays so involved in industry groups and nonprofit work. With energy to spare, Smith’s moment in the sun is unlikely to set anytime soon.

Christianna McCausland is a writer based in Baltimore.

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Tonya McClary: Tackling Police Reform in Oversight Roles

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Adam Stone

As the first permanent executive director of the Citizens Police Oversight Commission (CPOC) is Philadelphia, Tonya McClary is focused on empowering communities through accountability and transparency in law enforcement.

This is not her first rodeo. Since graduating from UBalt Law in 1994, she previously served as the first police oversight director in Dallas. She inaugurated a similar role in New Orleans, starting the agency’s Use of Force Division, working with Commissioner Michael Harrison, who later became police commissioner in Baltimore.

This is high-profile, high-stakes work, especially in the era since the killing of George Floyd by police in 2020. “My agency is the one that’s potentially going to get the Philadelphia Police Department on the front page of the paper — and not in a good way,” McClary says. “So it’s very tense, and it’s very political.”

Driving change

Coming out of law school, McClary thought she would be a public defender. A city hiring freeze shut down that option, so she took a low-paid fellowship doing human rights work with Amnesty International and never looked back. With a long career in criminal justice and human rights work, “it was just natural to fall into this role of overseeing police departments,” she says.

When New Orleans offered her a job doing just that, she took two weeks to make up her mind. Could civilian oversight really sway police behaviors and keep communities safe? “But once I really just thought about it and saw the opportunity, it made total sense to me,” she says.

In Philadelphia, where she has worked since May 2024, she pursues that opportunity in multiple ways. “We actually are at the scene of the police shootings. We’re watching the investigation of officer-involved shootings in real time, and we make policy recommendations to the police department when they are involved in shootings,” she says.

People can file complaints of misconduct with her office. “When someone files a complaint and Internal Affairs investigates, we get to see the investigation before it’s finalized and make additional recommendations,” she says. Her office does community outreach too, making sure people understand their rights, and advocating on behalf of residents.

McClary pursues all this with the goal of driving fundamental change in how policing is conducted. “I hope maybe one day I’ll work myself out of a job,” she says.

‘Very political’

Police agency oversight is hard work, and relatively short tenures are common. McClary spent about three years in NOLA and four years in Dallas. “These jobs are very political,” she says.

Most cities ramp up oversight after a traumatic event — think George Floyd or Freddie Gray. Often they do so under federal orders. There’s tension there.

“In most cities, most of the leadership — the mayor, the city manager, the city council — are very much behind their police department. People feel like they have to choose: Either I’m going to support the oversight agency or I’m going to support the police,” McClary says. “If it comes down between you and the police department, they’re going to go with the police department.”

How to stand up for what’s right in that environment? “I just don’t compromise. And in the back of my head, I always know that one day the phone may ring and someone’s going to say: Tonya, this is not working for us,” she says. “I come into jobs with that awareness.”

There are legal complexities as well. In Philly, for example, the police union recently blocked her office’s ability to conduct independent investigations, as part of contract negotiations.

“Even though that’s a big part of what I’m supposed to do, according to the legislation, we’re not even in the room” for those discussions, she says.

Pushing the boundaries

Those who know McClary says she’s especially well-suited to thrive in this challenging environment.

“Tonya’s unafraid, and she’s willing to push beyond boundaries, to challenge the status quo, particularly for what she feels in her heart, and her spirit is right,” says friend and law school classmate Stephanie Franklin, J.D. ’94, president & CEO at The Franklin Law Group, in Owings Mills, and CEO at Powerhouse Master Coaching Inc.

“She is tough. She is courageous. She’s a strong relationship builder, a strong communicator, and she’s strategic. She’s all of those things, as well as being very personable and caring and compassionate,” Franklin says.

On the best days, McClary’s work makes a big difference.

In Dallas, for example, the George Floyd killing sparked more than 100 days of protest. “There was an incident where some protestors had gone up on a bridge and ended up being corralled in by the police. They were getting ready to tear gas several hundred people,” she says.

McClary got on the phone with the chief of police, the Dallas city manager and the district attorney’s office, arguing it wouldn’t be a good idea to tear gas hundreds of people trapped on a bridge. “I used my authority and influence to have this whole thing avoided,” she says.

Her UBalt Law experiences primed her for success. An internship at the public defender’s office and a civil advocacy clinic gave a real-world taste of social justice work. And key mentors have also played a role, including the artist, singer, and nonprofit leader Niyonu Spann.

“She has taught me about being really, truly who you are in the work that you are called to do,” McClary says. “She has encouraged me over the years to really find who is the authentic Tonya.”

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.

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Daniel Hodges: A Self-Described Peacemaker

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Adam Stone

In the world of disability advocacy, Daniel Hodges describes himself as a peacemaker.

“Businesses want to offer their goods and services to the broadest customer base possible. And the customers with disabilities want to be able to transact business,” he says. “It’s all about finding the friction that shouldn’t be there, and helping both sides eliminate that friction.”

It should come as no surprise that the advocacy organization he co-founded is called the Peaces of Me Foundation.

Blind from birth, and living with a connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos syndrome, 41-year-old Hodges wears multiple hats. In addition to serving as president of the foundation, he’s a business development executive in The C-Suite Network, a professional-development community. He serves on the board of advisors of StationMD, a physician service supporting those with disabilities.

More? Sure! Hodges also is a strategic consultant with Real Life Access, a business promoting digital accessibility, and he’s director of partnerships at management consulting firm SA Consulting.

What motivates him to fight through the physical challenges to continue this work?

“When I was in my early 30s, I saw people my age falling out of the workforce left and right with these medical conditions,” he says. “For the ones who were able to stay working, it wasn’t about what they did for a living, it was about whether they had a job or a calling that was powerful enough that it helped them get out of bed in the morning, even on the worst pain days.”

He’s organized his professional life on that principle. “If I take on the projects that are really motivating for me, that increases my capacity to go out and do these things,” Hodges says.

That personal connection to the work helps to drive success, says Fred Brown, professor of law and director of the graduate tax program at UBalt Law. “It’s all lived experience: He’s lived as a disabled individual for almost his entire life, and he is incredibly articulate,” says Brown, who also serves as a board member at Peaces of Me.

With no background in disability, “at first I was a little reluctant to join the board, but he just made a powerful case,” Brown says. “He’s a very convincing individual, and it comes from his incredible sincerity.”

Even with that sincerity, this work can be challenging. “The hard part is getting people to understand what kind of advocacy I do,” says Hodges, who lives near Houston, TX. Again: It’s about peace-making. While the political landscape tells an adversarial story — the right says there’s too much accommodation, the left says there isn’t enough — Hodges seeks a middle ground. “Let me compete in an arena free of bias and barriers, and may the best candidate win. I want a fair and reasonable chance to earn what I’m capable of. I don’t want a handout.”

Karyn Schulz says Hodges is well-suited to make that case. As director of the UBalt Office of Disability and Access Services, she assisted him during his legal studies, and went on to serve on the Peaces of Me board herself.

“He wants people to learn,” she says. “He’s not high and mighty, not one of those militant folks: You will do this because it’s the law. He really brings people into the conversation.”

A natural question arises: Why would a peacemaker want to train in the inherently adversarial profession of law? “I had the same question,” Hodges says. “I don’t like arguing with people.”

But he found there’s more to law than litigation. There are alternative dispute resolution and mediation. More to the point, he says, “I’m able to use that legal knowledge to help others understand how the law works.” And the legal training itself “helps me to dissect the different arguments from different perspectives, to look at things on a deeper level.”

He brings that deeper-level approach to his advocacy work. When a national landscape-architect certifying organization asked Peaces of Me to create a service project for its members, Hodges counter-offered with an educational opportunity. He took the landscape designers to a park, to demonstrate personally what accessibility looks like.

“We had about 50 people out there touring this park with us, and more the next day in a 90-minute Q&A,” he says. “We said: Let’s put our heads together and start elevating this conversation.”

To further his work, Hodges now is pursuing a master’s degree in health care administration at Western Governors University. He credits UBalt with helping to launch his career, and applauds its proactive stance on disability.

“When I started there, there was one other blind student, and we were the first blind students that most of the professors or administrators had ever dealt with on that level,” he says. “We all worked together to make it a better experience, not just for us, but for every student that comes after us.”

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.

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Courtney Geduldig: A Stronger, Bolder Voice in Public Affairs

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Juan Soto in Alumni Profiles, Alumni Profiles 2025

By Adam Stone

National Grid helps ensure gas and electricity reach 20 million homes and businesses in New York and Massachusetts. As chief corporate affairs officer, Courtney Geduldig, J.D. ’00, helps ensure that National Grid itself is seen and understood.

Geduldig focuses on reputation and risk management at the company, which is based in the United Kingdom and is one of the world’s largest publicly listed utilities. “The government affairs and public affairs and policy teams report to me,” she says. Also under her umbrella are aspects of communications, stakeholder management, community engagement, and social impact.

“It’s everything that encompasses our external-facing presence as an organization,” she says.

For legal professionals working in “corporate affairs,” the definition of the role has evolved in recent years. Corporations used to view many of these public-facing functions as cost centers, an expense that went toward risk mitigation. Now that’s changing.

Today, corporate affairs work increasingly is seen as “proactive reputation management, external-facing capabilities that could actually add value to a company,” Geduldig says. “It’s become very clear that how an organization shows up in the external environment can have a bottom-line impact.”

In today’s world, “the brand matters,” she says, and as a corporate affairs professional, “you can quantify that: How you engage from an inclusivity standpoint and a social impact standpoint. That can drive investors, can drive talent.”

Hence Geduldig’s wide-range portfolio: Communications and social impact. “Who are we? Why do we do what we do? Putting all of those functions together reflects the integrated nature of all those things,” she says.

This is high-profile work, in that it drives outward-facing impacts. Geduldig works behind the scenes to craft that public perception. “In corporate affairs, we make sure that the people who are front-facing have all the tools they need, that they’re operating in the environment that’s most favorable, to get the outcome that we want,” she says.

Her early career work helped prep her for the role. She was a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and served as chief financial counsel to U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). “As a senior government official, I was often the person behind the person, making sure that a cabinet secretary or a senator could be successful,” she says.

Her present work is much the same. “We’re spending our days talking to governors, members of Congress, members of the administration, to condition the environment for the business and the company to be successful,” she says.

Those who know Geduldig say she’s well-suited for such a role.

“She’s exceptional at building great teams,” says Darlene Bright, J.D. ’02, who is global head of government affairs and public policy at S&P Global and was a co-worker of Geduldig’s. “She has a knack for finding talent, and for challenging members of her team to stretch beyond their traditional skill sets. She is extremely dedicated and loyal, and she is constantly keeping up with new innovations.”

That’s not to say that this is easy. Public-facing work comes with high stakes. “Getting it wrong can go very badly,” Geduldig says. On the upside, she adds, “Getting it right can have a huge impact.”

The biggest challenge often comes in relation to others within her own organization, who may only see the glamour side of the job. “Everybody thinks it’s fun. They want to go talk to members of Congress, they want to spend time with ambassadors and senior officials,” she says. “But there really is an art to it, a sequencing of events — and language is really important, precise wording for things.”

She works hard to help her colleagues understand “that what we are doing is actually trying to protect them, to set them up for success,” she says. And outside her daily work, she helps others to convey that message, as chair the of executive committee of the Public Affairs Council, the nation’s leading professional organization for the public affairs community. “I enjoy giving that back, helping the profession shift, helping my peers to address best practices and do their jobs better.”

While the current high-level pivot from sustainability back to fossil fuels complicates the picture, Geduldig says the bigger issue for her company right now is just in meeting the ever-growing demand for reliable energy. “We do have climate targets we have to meet, but our primary reason for existing is to provide that energy to our customers when they need it, how they need it, and at an affordable rate,” she says.

But Geduldig has navigated change before. “I was with S&P right after the financial crisis,” she says. If anything, she finds these market upsets “an interesting challenge.”

Her UBalt Law experience grounded her in the skills that she needs to meet that challenge. “UBalt Law teaches you the critical thinking skills,” she says. “It’s about asking that next question. It’s not the first question you ask, it’s the next two and three: Planning out what would happen next.”

In law school, that comes through in the way students evaluate case law and learn to solve problems. “Those skills from law school are invaluable,” she says. “And at UBalt Law in particular, you’re being taught by actual professionals. The emphasis on internships and actual working experience makes a real difference.”

Adam Stone is a writer based in Annapolis.