Laura Zois
About Laura Zois
Laura G. Zois earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee in 1991 and graduated with honors from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1995. Early in her career she defended insurance companies and corporations; she now uses that defense experience exclusively to represent injured victims, focusing on sex abuse, birth injuries, catastrophic injuries, and wrongful deaths. She has secured numerous multimillion-dollar settlements and verdicts, including a $10 million verdict for a wrongful death and survival action in a medical malpractice case and an $8 million verdict for a mother in a wrongful death case involving a commercial vehicle. In 2022 she received the Trial Lawyer of the Year award for a $2 million verdict in a sex abuse lawsuit against a medical provider. She is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates (limited to 100 of the nation's top trial lawyers), a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (top 1% in each state), and a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. She has testified before Maryland lawmakers on issues including contributory negligence, caps on non-economic damages, and jury selection, and serves on the advisory board for the Supreme Court of Maryland's Pilot Program on Expanded Voir Dire. She has been recognized as a Maryland Super Lawyer annually since 2008 and was named one of the Top 10 Lawyers in Maryland in 2024 and 2025.
Notable case results
A Baltimore jury awarded $10 million to the family of Dennis Allen, a pastor who died in 2013 after University of Maryland Medical Center administered Kayexalate with sorbitol, causing colonic necrosis; the verdict was affirmed on appeal and reduced to $906,250 under Maryland's statutory cap.
A Baltimore City jury awarded $5.2 million after Saint Agnes Hospital emergency staff sent Kevin Tolson home with a knee-strain diagnosis, missing a torn popliteal artery that led to an above-the-knee amputation two days later.
A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.5 million to Wanda Saffer, 72, after finding that gastroenterologist Dr. Mark Noar performed an ERCP without her informed consent, causing necrotizing pancreatitis that left her with permanent digestive and metabolic injuries.
After a night-shift janitor stepped into an unmarked, uncovered trench left by electrical workers at a Baltimore County school, a Baltimore City jury awarded her $537,365 for a severe ankle fracture that kept her off her feet for three years.
The estate and daughter of Patricia Martin, a 36-year-old Domino Sugar employee who died after superheated slurry burned nearly half her body during a routine maintenance task, settled confidentially against the equipment contractor Maryland Mechanical Systems Inc. at the close of the plaintiff's case in July 2004.
Wrongful death and survival action stemming from medical malpractice
Wrongful death involving a commercial vehicle
Sex abuse lawsuit against a medical provider (2022 Trial Lawyer of the Year)
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
