Debora Fajer-Smith
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About Debora Fajer-Smith
Debora Fajer-Smith is an attorney at Price Benowitz LLP with more than 40 years of experience representing plaintiffs in personal injury and workers' compensation matters in Maryland and the District of Columbia.
Fajer-Smith is admitted to the Maryland State Bar, the Bar of the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court. She is fluent in Portuguese and French.
Fajer-Smith is an inducted member of the ABA College of Workers Compensation, Chair of the Prince George's County Bar Association Workers Compensation Section, a member of the Maryland State Bar Association Judicial Nominating Committee, an Executive Board Member and Chair of the Committee on Directors of the University System of Maryland Foundation Board, and an appointed member of the Maryland Senate-House Oversight Committee on Insurance and Workers Compensation Benefits.
She is a co-editor of the Maryland Automobile Accident Deskbook (third edition), a published novelist (under the pen name Leah Kelly), a private pilot, and the founder of Amron Home and Health LLC.
Her recognitions include twice being selected by The Daily Record as one of the Top 100 Women in Maryland, the Leader in the Law award, peer-voted Best Lawyer in personal injury and workers' compensation, Top 100 Civil Plaintiff by the National Trial Lawyers, and Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP
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Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.
A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.
A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.
Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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