Elisha N. Hawk

Attorney Elisha N. Hawk is a partner with Brown & Barron, LLC, law firm in Baltimore, Maryland. Regarded as one of the leading trial lawyers in her region, Ms. Hawk provides superior representation and support to clients throughout the greater Baltimore and Washington, D.C., metro regions who have suffered injuries or lost loved ones due to nursing home abuse, and she has extensive experience handling medical malpractice cases, including misdiagnosed cancer claims, birth injury claims, and failure to diagnose and treat stroke claims.

Over the course of her more than 15 years in practice, Ms. Hawk has achieved considerable success advocating on behalf of her plaintiff clients. She gained significant experience handling pharmaceutical and defective medical device claims following her graduation from law school. Always aggressively pursuing the most favorable outcomes possible for those she serves, she has secured many substantial settlements and verdicts for her clients, and she has received top rankings and endorsements from her peers.

In 2014, Maryland Daily Record voted Ms. Hawk a Leading Woman lawyer, and she has received Superb, 10 out of 10 client ratings on Avvo. A leader in her legal community, she has served as president of the Maryland Association for Justice as well as section chair for the organization's Nursing Home Section and the New Lawyers Section. Under her leadership, the New Lawyers section received recognition as Section of the Year from 2013 to 2015. She most recently served as President of the Maryland Association for Justice Foundation.

A 1996 graduate of Hood College with a Bachelor of Arts in English, Ms. Hawk worked as a middle school English teacher for 11 years. During this time, she also earned a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University in 2003. She then attended University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she received a certificate in health law and served as class president as well as secretary of the Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society. She obtained her Juris Doctor in 2008.