- Commercial Litigation
- Personal Injury
- Medical Malpractice
- -- Anesthesia Errors
- -- Birth Injuries
- -- C-Section Errors
- -- Cerebral Palsy
- -- Delayed Cancer Diagnosis
- -- Emergency Room Errors
- -- Erbs Palsy
- -- Failure to Diagnose
- -- Hospital Negligence
- -- OB/GYN Malpractice
- -- Pediatric Malpractice
- -- Prescription Errors
- -- Radiology Errors
- -- Shoulder Dystocia
- -- Surgical Errors
Jon Brassel
Of counsel | (410) 266-0626 | jbrassel@hwlaw.com
Jon Brassel
Of counsel | (410) 266-0626 | jbrassel@hwlaw.com
Mr. Brassel concentrates on product and professional liability, personal injury and environmental litigation. He serves as national counsel for several clients involved in multi-jurisdiction asbestos litigation. He has successfully defended multi-million dollar environmental cases in multiple jurisdictions, and tried jury trials in aviation crashes and medical malpractices cases resulting in million dollar verdicts. Brassel is nationally recognized for defending multi-million dollar toxic claims, and has acted as lead counsel in defending thousands of personal injury and property toxic lawsuits.
Mr. Brassel has been recognized for his work in Personal Injury litigation as one of Maryland’s “Super Lawyers” from 2007-2022 and the only Maryland Corporate “Super Lawyer” for environmental litigation. He has been recognized by over 1000 attorneys surveyed in Anne Arundel County as the leading medical malpractice attorney in the area. He has also been voted as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in Maryland and is included in the Martindale-Hubbell Bar of Register of Preeminent Lawyers with an A-V rating. Brassel has also been voted by his peers into the 2010 – 2018 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation and included in Washington D.C.’s Best Lawyers 2010 Edition. Brassel was recently selected by America’s Top 100 Attorneys for a Lifetime Achievement award for his “lifetime of hard work, ethical standards and community enriching accomplishments that are inspiring among the legal profession.”
Education 
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J.D., magna cum laude, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1975
Editor of the Law Review - B.B.A., Wake Forest University, 1971
Admissions
Maryland State Bar
United States District Court for the Districts of Maryland
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth and Sixth Circuits
Professional Associations
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Anne Arundel County Bar Association
- Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- American Association for Justice