Ira L. Oring

Ira L. Oring supervises the Firm’s litigation department, and is a co-manager of the Firm. Mr. Oring joined the Firm in 1999, after spending ten years as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Baltimore.

Mr. Oring’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, securities litigation and FINRA related representations, real estate litigation, and surety litigation. He has represented a variety of Fortune 500 companies, as well as regional and local businesses, in commercial, financial and real estate disputes. Mr. Oring has represented a major brokerage in various matters, and individuals that are the subject of FINRA investigations.  Spanning his forty year legal career, has tried to a conclusion more than thirty jury trials, numerous court trials, and more than thirty arbitrations. Mr. Oring has substantial experience litigating matters in federal and state trial and appellate courts, having argued frequently before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Maryland Courts of Appeals. Mr. Oring also volunteers with the Maryland Volunteer Lawyer’s Service representing indigent clients.

• Litigation

• University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 1980)
• St. Lawrence University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1977), Phi Beta Kappa

• Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1980
• United States District Court for the District of Maryland, 1980
• United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1990
• Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 2003
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 2006

• Successfully defended a major real estate developer in multiple legal actions in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County designed to obstruct the development of a large mixed use center in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Instituted litigation in federal court against labor organizations for attempting to coerce the developer to cease doing business with the anchor tenant, a non-union business entity. When the district court granted the labor organizations’ Motion to Dismiss, obtained a reversal from the Fourth Circuit, clarifying the law in the Fourth Circuit relating to secondary boycotts by labor organizations. Waugh Chapel South, LLC, et al. v United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 27, et al., 728 F.3d 354 (4^th Cir. 2013).
• In a large commercial dispute, successfully argued before Maryland Court of Appeals that contractual non-waiver clauses can be waived by conduct, ultimately leading to resolution of matter.  Hovnanian Land Investment Group, LLC, et al. v. Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole, LLC, 421 Md. 94, 25 A.3d 967 (2011). 
• Obtained summary judgment in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County for national brokerage firm in an action for substantial damages as a result of alleged failure to appropriately process change in IRA beneficiary forms. Bruno Grandsard v. Vivian Hirshberg, et.al., Case No 3377591V, Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland (2012).  
• Obtained awards in favor of a major brokerage firm in fifteen securities arbitrations tried to a conclusion, with aggregate claims of millions of dollars; negotiated favorable settlements prior to hearings in thirty other arbitrations.
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of national retailer on claim that abandoned railroad right of way required removal of improvements from real property. Baltimore & Southern Railway Holdings v. Dayton Hudson Corporation, Civil Action No. WMN00CV1528, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2000). 
• Represented major brokerage firm and individuals in various FINRA and SEC inquires.
• Represented several major national title underwriters in numerous matters involving agent defalcations.
• Successfully prosecuted comptroller of a national labor organization for accepting kickbacks from a vendor, United States v. Seidman, 156 F.3d 542 (4th Cir. 1998).
• Successfully prosecuted regional waste management company and its principals for systematically overcharging customers millions of dollars, and for minority contracting fraud.  United States v. Johnson, 89 F.3d 830 (4th Cir. 1996).
• Successfully prosecuted cases involving bankruptcy fraud, arson for profit, mail fraud, wire fraud, and bank fraud.
• Successfully defended the United States government in a medical malpractice action brought by the widow of a United States Senator who had committed suicide.  East  v. United States, 745 F. Supp. 1142 (D. Md. 1990)

• Martindale-Hubbell 2025 AV Preeminent Attorney
• Best Lawyers in America -- Commercial Litigation, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023
• Selected for inclusion in Maryland Super Lawyers® for 2020 to 2024 in the area of Commercial Litigation