Attorneys

John T. Sly

John T. Sly is a trial attorney and partner at Waranch & Brown, LLC. His practice focuses on the aggressive defense of physicians and health care facilities, and product manufacturers, distributors and retailers throughout Maryland. He has successfully tried to verdict numerous high-dollar cases and has argued before state and federal appellate courts. Baltimore Magazine and Maryland Super Lawyers Magazine have identified Mr. Sly as a “Super Lawyer” in the field of medical malpractice defense for 2009 and 2010. Only 5% of attorneys in each state are selected. He has also been named to the September 2009 issue of Super Lawyers — Corporate Counsel Edition for his work in the field of product liability.

Mr. Sly graduated with honors in 1996 from Albany Law School of Union University where he served as Associate Editor of the Albany Law Review and was inducted into the Justinian Society and received the Robert Barker Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Moot Court Program. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from the State University of New York at Albany where he served as President of the Political Science Association.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Sly co-founded and managed a political marketing and consulting firm and worked in the United States House of Representatives and the New York State Legislature. Since becoming a trial attorney, he has served on the Executive Board of the Maryland Defense Counsel and is actively involved with the Defense Research Institute and the MD-DC Society for Healthcare Risk Management.

Mr. Sly is the author of a number of publications including:

“Hospitals are Not the Insurer of Last Resort,” Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, Winter 2010

“Challenging Plaintiff’s Causation Expert,” Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, Winter 2009

“Supervening Cause Is Alive and Well,” Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, Fall 2006

“The Restatement Sections Specifically Applicable to Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Cases in State Court: A 50-State Survey,” American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2004

“Don't Forget Causation — It Can Save You,” Maryland Defense Counsel, The Defense Line, Winter 2004

“A Proposal for a Contract Write-Off Rule,” Defense Research Institute, For The Defense, January 2003

“A Federal Threat to your First Amendment Rights: Preemption of the Padavan Law by the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988,” New York State Senate Research Service 1996.

Mr. Sly has had the privilege of lecturing at University of Maryland Law School and at various health care facilities on the legal process.