About Bruce Plaxen

Bruce M. Plaxen is the founding partner of Plaxen Adler Muncy, P.A., a Maryland personal injury law firm he established in 1985 at age 26 with no financial backing and only two years of legal experience. With more than 40 years of experience in personal injury litigation, he is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and the 80th President of the American Association for Justice (2025-2026), the first attorney from Maryland to lead the organization in its 80-year history. He played a pivotal role as national organizer for the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. He earned his B.A. cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$2.05 millionVerdict

Carlisa Kent, 45, of Prince Frederick, was seriously injured in a 2008 Calvert County head-on crash when an off-duty Prince George's County narcotics officer driving a county-leased rental car crossed the centerline. A Prince George's County jury awarded $3,091,291.67 in January 2011. Maryland's noneconomic damages cap reduced the judgment to about $2.05 million. Bruce Plaxen represented Kent.

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

American University Washington College of Law
B.A. cum laude
State University of New York at Albany
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Maryland
American Association for Justice (President 2025-present)
Maryland Association for Justice (Board of Governors since 1993; President 2001-2002)

Awards & recognition

80th President - American Association for Justice (2025-2026)
Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year (2009)
Super Lawyers (2007-2026)
Top 100 Maryland Super Lawyers (2020-2026)
Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers (2026)
Joe Tonahill Award from AAJ (2023)
Daily Record Influential Marylanders (2025)

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Baltimore firms

Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A.
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A.
$190 Million Settlement for 8,000 Patients Secretly Recorded by Johns Hopkins Gynecologist
Murphy Falcon & Murphy
Murphy Falcon & Murphy
$54 million+ · $54 Million Settlement for Gambrills Families Whose Drinking Wells Were Poisoned by Coal Ash
Miller & Zois
Miller & Zois
$5.5 Million Verdict After Pacing Wire Removal Kills Bypass Patient
Iamele & Iamele
Iamele & Iamele
$26.99 million · $105 Million Verdict in Off-Duty Officer's Murder of Tristin Little Sr.
Saiontz & Kirk Personal Injury Lawyers
Saiontz & Kirk Personal Injury Lawyers
$436,212 · Baltimore Jury Awards $436K After Woman Is Dragged by Light Rail Car at Patapsco Station

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.