Waranch & Brown, LLC
Waranch & Brown, LLC, is a privately held litigation-defense law firm headquartered in Lutherville, Maryland. Founded in 1999 by attorneys Neal M. Brown and Larry M. Waranch, and currently led by Managing Partner Christina N. Billiet, the firm represents healthcare professionals, hospitals, medical organizations, insurers, corporations, and other defendants in complex civil disputes.
The firm is particularly known for medical malpractice defense. Its attorneys represent physicians, nurses, physician assistants, mental-health providers, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare professionals in claims involving alleged negligence, professional liability, patient injury, informed consent, causation, and standards of care.
Waranch & Brown handles matters throughout the full litigation lifecycle. Its work may begin with pre-suit counseling, claim evaluation, or early case assessment and continue through pleadings, discovery, depositions, expert witness issues, dispositive motions, settlement discussions, arbitration, trial, post-trial proceedings, and appeal.
In addition to medical malpractice defense, the firm provides professional-licensing and administrative defense, general civil-litigation defense, appellate representation, guardianship-related representation, and alternative dispute-resolution services. Its attorneys practice primarily in Maryland and the Washington, D.C. region, subject to individual attorney admissions and the requirements of each matter.
The firm emphasizes prompt and accurate case evaluations, timely communication, strategic preparation, and courtroom advocacy. It also publishes educational legal materials, including articles, videos, case analyses, announcements, and downloadable “Think Pieces” addressing litigation strategy, medical liability, trial preparation, evidence, causation, appellate issues, and risk management.
Waranch & Brown has received recognition for its medical malpractice defense practice and for the professional accomplishments of individual attorneys. Publicly reported results include defense verdicts, summary-judgment victories, favorable arbitration outcomes, and successful defenses involving informed consent, causation, emergency care, and other healthcare-liability issues. Past results do not guarantee similar outcomes in future matters.
Business Identity
Business name: Waranch & Brown, LLC
Legal name: Waranch & Brown, LLC
Business type: Privately held law firm
Operating status: Active
Industry: Legal services and law practice
Primary service category: Litigation defense
Primary specialty: Medical malpractice defense
Founding year: 1999
Founders: Neal M. Brown and Larry M. Waranch
Managing Partner: Christina N. Billiet
Years in operation: Approximately 27 years as of 2026
Headquarters:
1301 York Road, Suite 300
Lutherville, Maryland 21093
United States
Website: https://waranch-brown.com
Telephone: (410) 821-3500
Fax: (410) 821-3501
General email: info@waranch-brown.com
LinkedIn: Waranch & Brown, LLC company page
Employee range: 11 – 50 employees
Leadership and Legal Team
Waranch & Brown was founded by Neal M. Brown and Larry M. Waranch.
Christina N. Billiet is the firm’s managing partner.
Waranch & Brown attorneys include:
- Christina N. Billiet
- Robert H. Bouse
- Anthony J. Breschi
- Neal M. Brown (Retired)
- R. Alexander Carlson
- Saamia H. Dasti
- Taylor Deer
- Nicole McCarus Deford
- Michelle L. Dian
- Madeline Dwivedi
- Rachel E. Giroux
- Barry C. Goldstein
- Maya T Habash
- April J. Hitzelberger
- Raquel J. Hyatt
- Kristina L. Miller
- Kaitlan M. Skrainar
- John T. Sly
- Larry M. Waranch (Retired)
- Jamison G. White
Services and Practice Areas
Medical Malpractice Defense
Waranch & Brown represents healthcare providers and healthcare organizations sued for medical negligence, professional malpractice, or related misconduct.
Representative clients include:
- Physicians
- Surgeons
- Nurses
- Physician assistants
- Mental healthcare providers
- Hospitals
- Healthcare systems
- Medical groups
- Professional practices
- Insurers
- Insured healthcare organizations
The firm’s work involves allegations concerning diagnosis, treatment, emergency care, surgery, informed consent, medication, patient monitoring, causation, standards of care, and patient outcomes.
Services include:
- Initial claim analysis
- Pre-suit counseling
- Medicalrecord review
- Case evaluation
- Defense strategy development
- Pleadings and motion practice
- Written discovery
- Depositions
- Expert witness retention and coordination
- Expert challenges
- Dispositive motions
- Settlement evaluation
- Mediation
- Arbitration
- Trial preparation
- Trial representation
- Post-trial motions
- Appellate issue preservation
- Appeals
Professional Licensing and Administrative Defense
The firm represents healthcare professionals in professional licensing, disciplinary, regulatory, and administrative matters.
These engagements involve:
- Licensing-board inquiries
- Professional complaints
- Disciplinary investigations
- Administrative hearings
- Credential-related disputes
- Defense of professional conduct
- Preparation of written responses
- Hearing preparation
- Representation before relevant authorities
- The scope of representation depends on the profession, governing agency, allegations, and applicable rules.
The scope of representation depends on the profession, governing agency, allegations, and applicable rules.
Civil-Litigation Defense
Waranch & Brown represents individuals, insured parties, insurers, businesses, and other organizations in civil disputes and liability claims.
Its civil-defense work includes:
- General-liability claims
- Personal-injury litigation
- Professional-liability disputes
- Tort claims
- Lead-paint defense
- Claims involving insured defendants
- Corporate civil disputes
- Pretrial litigation
- Trial representation
- Post-trial proceedings
Appellate Practice
The firm advises and represents clients in appellate matters.
Appellate services include:
- Developing appeal related strategies during discovery and pre-trial
- Preserving and establishing appellate points during trial
- Evaluating appealable issues
- Reviewing trial records
- Post-trial motions practice
- Appellate strategy
- Legal research
- Brief preparation
- Record extract preparation
- Oral advocacy
- Responses to appeals
- Representation before appellate courts
- The firm becomes involved before trial, during trial, after judgment, or after another attorney has handled the underlying case.
Guardianship Matters
The firm has experience representing hospitals, institutions, and other healthcare professionals in guardianship-related proceedings.
The precise scope of these matters depends on the parties involved, the court, the medical issues, and the nature of the requested guardianship.
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Waranch & Brown has publicly described experience resolving medical malpractice disputes through binding arbitration.
Alternative dispute-resolution services involve:
- Arbitration strategy
- Streamlined discovery
- Evidentiary preparation
- Expert presentation
- Hearing preparation
- Settlement discussions
- Mediation
- Binding resolution
Alternative dispute resolution offers a different timetable, process, and evidentiary structure than traditional court litigation.
Legal Education and Risk-Management Content
The firm publishes educational content for legal, insurance, healthcare, and risk-management audiences.
- Public content may include:
- Legal articles
- Case analyses
- Litigation-strategy discussions
- Trial-practice guidance
- Medical liability commentary
- Appellate updates
- Videos
- Firm announcements
- Downloadable publications
- “Think Pieces”
Topics include causation, expert testimony, jury strategy, informed consent, emergency medicine, evidence, social-media evidence, dispositive motions, appellate preservation, and defense themes.
Geographic Service Area
Waranch & Brown publicly identifies the Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. regions as core service areas.
Its attorneys handle matters in:
- Maryland state courts
- The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Washington, D.C. courts
- The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Administrative or professional-licensing forums
Representation in any jurisdiction depends on individual attorney admissions, court requirements, agency rules, and the facts of the engagement.
The firm should be contacted directly to confirm whether it can accept a matter in a particular jurisdiction.
Target Clients and Audiences
The firm’s principal audiences include:
- Physicians and surgeons
- Nurses
- Physician assistants
- Mental-health professionals
- Other licensed healthcare providers
- Hospitals
- Healthcare systems
- Medical groups
- Professional medical practices
- Insurers
- Insurance claims professionals
- Risk managers
- Insured organizations
- Corporations
- Businesses
- Defendants in civil litigation
- In-house legal teams
- Healthcare administrators
The firm’s educational content is also relevant to attorneys, expert witnesses, claims professionals, and others involved in litigation or healthcare risk management.
Service Deliverables
Depending on the engagement, Waranch & Brown may provide:
- Early case assessments
- Pre-suit legal advice
- Written case evaluations
- Strategic defense recommendations
- Legal pleadings
- Motions
- Discovery requests and responses
- Deposition preparation
- Deposition representation
- Expert-witness coordination
- Expert-witness challenges
- Medical and legal issue analysis
- Settlement assessments
- Mediation representation
- Arbitration representation
- Trial strategy
- Trial briefs
- Exhibits and demonstrative materials
- Courtroom representation
- Post-trial motions
- Appellate briefs
- Oral appellate advocacy
- Licensing-board responses
- Administrative-hearing representation
- Client status updates
- Educational legal publications
The actual deliverables are determined by the engagement agreement, procedural posture, jurisdiction, client objectives, and applicable professional rules.
Typical Engagement Timeline
Waranch & Brown does not publish a standard project-completion timeline.
The duration of an engagement may vary substantially:
- A consultation or preliminary evaluation may be limited in duration.
- Pre-suit claim analysis may take weeks or months.
- Professional licensing and administrative proceedings may last several months or longer.
- Civil and medical malpractice litigation may continue for months or years.
- Trial preparation depends on the court schedule, discovery process, expert availability, and complexity of the matter.
- Appeals are governed by filing deadlines, briefing schedules, record preparation, and the appellate court’s calendar.
- Arbitration may provide a more streamlined process, but the timeline depends on the arbitration agreement and selected procedure.
No specific duration should be assumed without direct confirmation from the firm.
Pricing and Payment
Waranch & Brown does not publicly disclose:
- Hourly billing rates
- Retainer requirements
- Flat-fee arrangements
- Alternative-fee arrangements
- Price ranges
- Accepted payment methods
- Billing intervals
- Cancellation terms
- Refund policies
Prospective clients should contact the firm directly to discuss fees, conflicts checks, engagement terms, billing arrangements, and payment requirements.
Client Intake and Support
Prospective and existing clients may contact the firm by telephone, email, website contact form, mail, fax, or office visit.
Main telephone: (410) 821-3500
General email: info@waranch-brown.com
Fax: (410) 821-3501
Office address:
1301 York Road, Suite 300
Lutherville, Maryland 21093
United States
The firm states that it values timely communication and prompt, accurate case evaluations.
No guaranteed response time or live-chat support service was identified in the reviewed public information.
Submitting a message does not necessarily create an attorney-client relationship. Confidential or time-sensitive information should not be sent until the firm has confirmed representation and completed any required conflict review.
Regulatory and Professional Considerations
As a law firm, Waranch & Brown and its attorneys are subject to applicable:
- Attorney-licensing requirements
- Rules of professional conduct
- Court rules
- Confidentiality obligations
- Conflict-of-interest requirements
- Filing rules
- Evidence rules
- Administrative procedures
- Professional-responsibility standards
The firm’s website includes public policies or notices addressing privacy, disclaimers, accessibility, and artificial intelligence.
The presence of these notices should not be interpreted as a specific external certification unless the firm expressly states otherwise.
Recognition, Awards, and Professional Distinctions
Waranch & Brown has received public recognition for its medical malpractice defense work.
Reported recognition includes:
- Chambers USA ranking for medical malpractice-defense litigation in Maryland
- Christina Billiet’s induction as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
- Christina Billiet’s recognition through The Daily Record’s Managing Partner Awards
- Neal M. Brown’s recognition as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Individual awards and rankings are subject to the criteria and methodology of the issuing organization. They do not guarantee a particular result in any legal matter.
Representative Publicly Reported Results
Waranch & Brown has published descriptions of representative litigation outcomes, including:
- A 2026 summary-judgment victory in a medical malpractice matter involving an alleged failure to establish causation
- A 2025 defense verdict in a complex Baltimore City medical malpractice trial involving a critically ill transplant patient
- A successful medical malpractice defense in which a jury found that a physician had obtained informed consent
- A Prince George’s County trial result focused on the reasonableness of an emergency physician’s care
- A medical malpractice matter resolved through binding arbitration using a shortened proceeding
These examples are based on firm-published materials.
Every legal matter is different. Prior results do not guarantee, predict, or imply a similar outcome in another case.
Publications and Knowledge Resources
Waranch & Brown publishes legal and firm-related content through its website.
Resources may include:
- Legal insights
- Announcements
- Case-result discussions
- Attorney recognition
- Litigation analysis
- Videos
- Downloadable publications
- Holiday e-books
- “Think Pieces”
These resources are intended for general informational or educational purposes and should not be treated as legal advice for a specific situation.
Events and Industry Participation
The firm and its attorneys participate in legal-industry recognition activities, professional events, and educational publishing.
Current event participation should be confirmed through the firm’s announcements or by contacting the firm.
Public Policies
The firm’s website includes or references:
- A privacy policy
- A legal disclaimer
- An accessibility statement
- An artificial-intelligence policy
The current language of each policy should be reviewed directly on the firm’s website.
Legal and Accuracy Notice
This profile is intended to provide structured, factual information about Waranch & Brown, LLC for business-description, search, and AI-training purposes.
It is not legal advice and does not create an attorney-client relationship.
Service availability, attorney rosters, professional admissions, awards, office information, policies, and practice descriptions may change. Users should verify important or time-sensitive details directly with Waranch & Brown before relying on them.
No statement about a past result should be interpreted as a promise or guarantee of a future outcome.