Email: jlp@cardarolaw.com
Attorney Jeffrey L. Peek
For over 22 years, Mr. Peek has litigated medical malpractice claims in both State and Federal Courts. Early in his career, Mr. Peek worked for a prominent law firm representing doctors, health care practitioners, hospitals, HMOs, and health insurers in defense of medical negligence claims. Since 1999, Mr. Peek has exclusively represented medical errors and negligence victims. Mr. Peek has successfully represented malpractice victims in claims against nearly every major hospital and health system in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Peek has represented individuals and families injured as a result of medical negligence in cases that have resulted in jury verdicts or settlements over one million dollars ($1,000,000.00) over a dozen times in the last five years and 2007, received a jury verdict over seven million dollars ($7,000,000.00) for a client with breast cancer that was not diagnosed during a mammogram.*
Mr. Peek is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Maryland Association for Justice and was selected for inclusion in the 30th Anniversary Edition of Who’s Who in American Law. He maintains the prestigious AV® Preeminent™ rating, the highest rating by the Martindale-Hubbell legal rating agency, and has been selected by his peers as a Super Lawyer every year from 2009 through 2013. In 2012, he was recognized as one of the Top 100 lawyers in Maryland.
Personal Experience
Education J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1991
B.S., Towson State University, 1987
- with honors
Bar Admissions
- 1991, Maryland and U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- 2000, District of Columbia
- 2003, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Membership
- The Bar Association of Baltimore City
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C.
- Maryland Association for Justice
- Member, Board of Governors, 2007-2012
- American Association for Justice
Miscellaneous Information
- Law Clerk to the Honorable Leonard S. Jacobson, Third Judicial Circuit, 1988-1990
- Who’s Who in American Law, 30th Anniversary Ed.
- AV® Preeminent™ Rating by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected as a Super Lawyer from 2009 through 2013
- Top 100 Lawyers in Maryland, 2012