Laurie G. Furshman

Associate

  • Laurie G. Furshman
  • Phone: +1 410 949 2943

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  • Duane Morris LLP
    100 International Drive, Suite 700
    Baltimore, MD 21202-5184
    USA

Laurie G. Furshman is a trial attorney representing clients in commercial, financial services and business litigation matters in federal and state courts. She serves as litigation counsel for several CMBS and RMBS servicers, lenders and industry players in lender liability and loan enforcement litigation.

Ms. Furshman has represented clients in a wide variety of complex commercial disputes and individual matters, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and business torts. She has experience in all phases of civil litigation, including pre-litigation strategy and alternative resolution, writing and arguing motions, discovery, working with experts, drafting settlement agreements, mediations, and appellate briefing and oral argument. She has also counseled clients on large-scale product recalls and reporting obligations under the laws enforced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Ms. Furshman has extensive experience defending servicers and financial institutions in individual litigation brought under the FDCPA, RESPA, TILA, FCRA, UCC and parallel state statutes. She has litigated creditors’ rights matters on behalf of these clients in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcy cases and related adversary litigation. She has also served on litigation teams defending a medical device manufacturer in nationwide products liability litigation and representing a REIT in shareholder class action litigation.

Ms. Furshman is a 2010 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she was associate comments editor of the University of Baltimore Law Review, and a magna cum laude graduate of Gettysburg College.

Admissions

  • Maryland
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Education

  • University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 2010
    - Associate Comments Editor, University of Baltimore Law Review
    - Heuisler Honor Society
  • Gettysburg College, B.A., magna cum laude, 2007
    - Player and captain of the Women’s D-III collegiate lacrosse and soccer teams

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Associate, 2010-present

Professional Activities

  • J. Dudley Digges Chapter, American Inns of Court
  • American Bar Association
  • Maryland Bar Association
  • Bar Association of Baltimore City
    - YLD Public Education Committee (2011-2012)
    - YLD Public Service Committee (2012-2013)

Honors and Awards

  • Named to Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch," 2021-2024
  • Named a Living Classrooms Foundation's Rising Star, 2014; presented by the Baltimore Business Journal

Selected Publications

  • Co-author, "Federal Licensing Requirements" Chapter, in State-by-State Guide to Architect, Engineer, and Contractor Licensing (Aspen Publishers, 2nd ed. 2012)

Civic and Charitable Activities

  • Mentor, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Mentoring Program
  • Literacy Tutor, Reading Partners-Baltimore City
  • Pratt Contemporaries, Patron Member