Mr. Portner is the President and Managing Partner of Portner & Shure, P.A. and is licensed to practice in MD, VA and D.C. He represents clients in matters of criminal defense, personal injury, including motor vehicle accidents, medical malpractice, workers’ compensation, and drug and medical device injuries. Mr. Portner supervises Portner & Shure’s seven fully staffed offices, a staff of over fifty, as well as ten lawyers. Every month he helps secure millions of dollars in settlements and trial awards while supervising a law firm that has now recovered over $400 million dollars. Further, Mr. Portner is routinely in court in serious criminal matters throughout Maryland, Virginia, and D.C.
After graduating cum laude from the University of Baltimore Law School and serving as an associate editor of the Law Review, Mr. Portner clerked for Chief Judge Gilbert of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. Thereafter, Mr. Portner served as a litigator at Gordon, Feinblatt and obtained countless large settlements, and trial awards. As a result, the head of the personal injury department selected Mr. Portner to work with co-counsel, Levin, Papantonio (one of the country’s top personal injury firms) in a mass tort case. The case resulted in a multi-million-dollar verdict. Thereafter, Mr. Portner started Portner & Shure.
Mr. Portner’s philosophy with insurance companies and defense counsel is to be aggressive, but fair. He stresses the importance of client satisfaction and results. He has obtained $400 million in recoveries because of his attention to detail, willingness to litigate, and insistence that his staff be amongst the best.
Recent settlements include one for $2.15 million dollars in a NVA wrongful death pedestrian accident, $900,000 in a Newport News, Virginia car accident, a $750,000 settlement in a Hagerstown, Maryland wrongful death auto accident, as well as a $450,000 settlement in a Bel Air, Maryland serious car accident.
In addition to recovering over $400 hundred million dollars, Mr. Portner has tried or resolved thousands of cases against some of the top insurance defense attorneys and prosecutors in both State and Federal Courts, Portner & Shure, P.A. is not just a personal injury firm that settles cases. Portner & Shure litigates automobile accidents, workers’ compensation, medical malpractice, or criminal defense cases almost daily. Insurance companies and prosecutors are well aware of the firms that don’t back down. Mr. Portner, and the team he has hand-picked to work with, are fully prepared to go toe to toe with big
insurance companies and prosecutors and have a track record of excellent results. There is a reason you can “Expect More” at Portner & Shure.
