Listed in Chambers USA since 2021 as a leading attorney in Maryland for Construction Law
Listed since 2003 in Best Lawyers in America, Litigation-Construction; named Best Lawyers’ Baltimore Litigation- Construction “Lawyer of the Year” (2015)
AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale Hubbell
Listed since 2007 in Maryland Super Lawyers , Construction Litigation
Life Fellow– American Bar Foundation
Co-Chair, Construction Practice Group, Baker Donelson, 2017–2021
Co-Chair, Construction Practice Group, Ober Kaler, 1997–2016
Partner, Blum Yumkas Mailman Gutmna & Denick, 1988–1997
Partner/Associate, Braude, Margulies, Sacks & Rephan, 1979–1987
Judicial Clerk, U.S. Court of Claims, trial division, 1978–1979
American College of Construction Lawyers, Board of Governors, 2022-__; Chair, Public Contracts Committee, 2020-2022
ABA Forum Construction Law, Finance Chair, 2014-2018; Governing Committee, 2013-2016; Former Chair, Division 9, Specialty Trade Contractors and Suppliers
ABA Section of Public Contract Law
American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association’s Large Complex Case Panel
Co-Editor, Hahn, Kovars, MacVey, The 2017 A201 Deskbook (ABA 2017)
Co-Editor and Author, Silberman, Kovars, Steedman, Construction Subcontracting, A Comprehensive Practical and Legal Guide)(ABA 2014)
Co-Editor and Author, Kovars and Schollaert, Maryland Construction Law Deskbook, Third Edition (MSBA 2023)
District of Columbia
State of Maryland
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Member, Board of Directors, Baltimore Museum of Industry, 2022-___