McGrath, Terrence Michael

Mr. McDaniel is a veteran litigator who has tried many federal and state cases and argued numerous appeals over more than thirty years. His experience encompasses a wide range of legal issue including civil rights and other constitutional matters, partnership disputes, personal injury lawsuits, and witness tampering.

Currently, Mr. McDaniel represents the former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in several cases in federal court in New York. These cases arose when INS officials apprehended and detained certain individuals following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011.

These cases have required extensive and complex motions and complicated discovery activities. Along the way, Mr. McDaniel has prepared and argued a number of inter-related appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and before that Court en banc.

In current matters, Mr. McDaniel serves as lead counsel in a complex dispute involving a large estate in probate court in the District of Columbia. As part of a large litigation team, he has represented a major pharmaceutical company in products liability litigation pending in various state and federal courts across the country. He is involved as counsel in California in a dispute concerning theft and other wrongdoing relating to a large estate.

Education and Early Career

Following his graduation, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1973, Mr. McDaniel attended the University of Virginia Law School. There, he served as Editor-In-Chief of The Virginia Law Review, earned membership in the Order of the Coif, and graduated among the top five students in the Class of 1977.

Before beginning his practice, Mr. Mcdaniel served as law clerk to two federal judges. From 1977 to 1978, he clerked for the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. During the 1978-1979 term of the Supreme Court, he clerked for the Honorable Harry A. Blackmun, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Supreme Court Justices select fewer than 35 top law school graduates every year to serve as clerks.

In 1979, Mr. McDaniel joined the Washington, D.C. firm of Williams & Connolly, headed by Edward Bennett Williams. As an associate, he represented clients in major civil and criminal cases across the country and took on criminal investigations of international corporations and business people. He also represented General Motors Company, Velsicol Chemical Company, and other national corporations in a number of large, complex tort actions.

In 1984, Mr. McDaniel started his own firm in Baltimore, MD

Community Service and Teaching

Mr. McDaniel co-founded and serves as President of the Harry A. Blackmun Scholarship Foundation, Inc., a group of Justice Blackmun's former clerks, who raise money for law school scholarships.

From 1990 through 1998, Mr. McDaniel taught trial advocacy and civil litigation practice at the University of Virginia Law School. He lectured on appellate advocacy for several years at the University of Baltimore Law School. He has also written many articles and conducted seminars on various topics concerning litigation in federal court.

Governor Parris Glendening of Maryland appointed Mr. McDaniel to the Board of Trustees of the Maryland Legal Services Corporation in 1995 and reappointed him to a second three-year term in 1998. The Legal Services Corporation raises funds and makes grants to nonprofit organizations for the provision of civil legal assistance to law-income Marylanders.

For six years, Mr. McDaniel served as a trustee of the Ruxton Country School. He is deeply involved in pro bono litigation and other activities assisting families with children suffering substance abuse. Mr. McDaniel also owns and operates a boarding facility for horses in Baltimore County, Loblolly Farm, www.LoblollyFarm.com., and is active in equine and agricultural affairs.