Biography of Attorney Bob Baum

• Over 24 years of litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), experience.
• Nationally, Mr. Baum provides mediation services, arbitration services, collaborative law services and litigation law services.
• Nationally, he helps to resolve business, construction, environmental, real-estate/land use, intellectual property, privacy and other disputes.
• In Maryland, Mr. Baum provides services in all aspects of family law/divorce matters, and represents children as a guardian ad litem.
• Serves "of-counsel" to Bromberg Rosenthal LLP, a prestigious Maryland law firm.
• Appointed by President Bill Clinton to direct the Office of Hearing and Appeals at the U.S. Department of the Interior, where he served as chief judge, established that Department's ADR program and served as Special Assistant to the Secretary for Dispute Resolution. Bob helped resolve numerous environmental and employment disputes, helped other federal agencies establish alternative dispute resolution programs, served on the U.S. Department of Justice's ADR committee and lectured nationwide on ADR practices.
• Also (earlier) appointed by President Clinton to serve as chief counsel to the United States Parks Service and Fish and Wildlife Service, where he directed the litigation and settlement of numerous environmental and land use disputes.
• Served as an attorney with the prestigious law firms of Arent Fox Kitner Plotkin and Kahn and Dobrovir and Gebhardt in Washington, D.C. and Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol (Los Angeles), including intellectual property (trademark, copyright), unfair trade practices, health law disputes, environmental construction, general litigation and performed significant public service work in the family law area.
• Was intellectual property director for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, and was one of a handful of staff chosen to run the operations/nerve center during the games.
• Owned a radio station in Hawaii
• Former Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA) volunteer
• Involved in numerous education matters, including serving as legislative issues chair for the Montgomery County Council of PTA's.
• Divorced parent who went through the litigation and mediation process.
• Appointed to many important committees and commissions, including
  • Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Association Alternative Dispute Resolution Section
  • Chair of the Maryland State Advisory Council On Medical Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) where he serves on the business and family law committees
  • Maryland Medical Advisory Commission On Practice Parameters
  • Vice President, Maryland Collaborative Professionals Council
  • Treasurer, Collaborative Dispute Resolution Professionals, Inc.
  • Board Member, Dartmouth Partners in Community Service
  • Member, American Bar Association, Maryland Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR), International Association of Collaborative Professionals, Association of Family and Counciliation Courts, Dartmouth Lawyer’s Association
• Graduate of Dartmouth College (with honors), 1977 and Washington University (St. Louis) School of Law, 1981.
• A member of the Bars of the States of Maryland, California and the District of Columbia
• Lecturer, author and teacher