Jamison White is a trial attorney and partner at Waranch & Brown. His practice concentrates in civil litigation with a focus on defending healthcare providers against medical malpractice and tort claims. Mr. White has extensive experience litigating and obtaining defense verdicts in medical malpractice and product liability cases throughout the State of Maryland, including the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Mr. White has also been admitted pro hac vice and successfully litigated cases in state courts across the country in jurisdictions such as Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Virginia. He has also appeared in nearly a dozen federal courts around the country through his previous pro bono experience prosecuting international child abduction cases while working in conjunction with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in Alexandria, Virginia. Through these efforts, Mr. White was part of the legal team that was the first to repatriate a child who had been abducted from Spain back to his home country under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a multilateral treaty to which the United States is a signatory.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. White was a partner at a prominent law firm in Baltimore, Maryland where he represented clients in complex medical malpractice, catastrophic injury and product liability litigation. He was also part of the legal team that represented former NFL players in a class action lawsuit against NFL teams for prescription pain killer abuse, during which he was selected to take the deposition of the owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys.
Mr. White also has experience in Maryland’s appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. White received his Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude and with honors) from Davidson College, where he majored in history with a concentration in archaeology. While in college, he received a National Science Foundation grant to serve as a staff archaeologist on a three-month excavation of a Late Bronze Age settlement (circa 1450 B.C.) in Athienou, Cyprus. He went on to graduate cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law where he served as the Managing Editor of the Law Review, was selected to the school’s National Moot Court team, earned the distinction of being named a Finalist in the National Moot Court Competition and was elected to the Order of Barristers, a highly selective national organization which honors excellence in oral and written advocacy.
Mr. White has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” or “Rising Star” by Maryland Super Lawyers every year since 2009. He was also selected for induction into the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40.
Mr. White has co-authored or authored several articles for legal publications, including Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide: Augusto Pinochet, Universal Jurisdiction, the ICC and a Wake-Up Call for Former Heads of State, Case Western Reserve Law Review, Volume 50, Issue 1 (1999).
He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Maryland State Bar Association.
