Family Law

• Divorce

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Since co-founding London & Mead in 1994 after almost six years as a federal prosecutor, Chris has been named as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, repeatedly listed as one of the top 100 lawyers in Washington, D.C. by the Washington Post and Washingtonian Magazine, and listed in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers for civil litigation and white collar criminal defense. Chris has successfully tried dozens of cases to verdict as lead trial counsel. Chris is now of counsel to London & Mead and provides services on legacy cases and counsel regarding ongoing matters. His active practice of law is as a partner with Schertler, Onorato & Mead.
• Fraud
  London & Mead represented the president of cardiac monitoring company charged with violations of the Anti-Kickback Act and health care fraud. After a jury trial in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Maryland, our client was acquitted on all counts.
• Embezzlement
  1989-1994: Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, specializing in white collar criminal prosecutions. Lead prosecutor in numerous investigations and prosecutions of generic drug companies, and worked extensively with FDA's Special Prosecution Staff and Office of Criminal Investigations. Received FDA Commissioner's Special Citation for Prosecutions of Application and Manufacturing Fraud, and Maryland Governor's Award for Victim Assistance. Lead counsel in multiple trials and appeals before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; extensive experience in money laundering, tax evasion, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud and embezzlement, interstate transportation of stolen property, embezzlement from ERISA plans, threats against the President, kidnapping, narcotics and firearms offenses.
• Drug Crimes
  London & Mead represented an internet pharmacy company accused of illegal distribution of prescription pharmaceuticals. The corporation won a complete acquittal by a jury in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
• Money Laundering
  London & Mead represented a corporate executive charged in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York with securities fraud and money laundering conspiracies and substantive securities fraud. The government dropped all charges in favor of a deferred prosecution agreement.  Our client received no criminal conviction and served no jail time.
• Kidnapping

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  London & Mead handles a broad range of litigation. Our civil practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and involves securities law, intellectual property, the False Claims Act, breach of contract, real estate, antitrust, health care billing, partnership disputes and breakups, and employment. We have tried cases in federal courts, state courts, and in arbitrations throughout the United States: patent cases in Los Angeles and in Connecticut, a False Claims Act case in Oklahoma, breach of contract disputes in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and countless other proceedings. We have secured successful resolutions prior to trial in an architectural copyright case in Virginia, a legal malpractice case in the District of Columbia, insurance disputes, tort cases, and virtually every type of commercial litigation. We have also secured outstanding outcomes in arbitrations involving issues ranging from breach of contract and wrongful termination to a successful $12 million indemnification claim by an executive against his former employer for attorneys’ fees incurred in an investigation.
• Intellectual Property
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  London & Mead defended a property owner in a dispute with a former “Development Consultant” in connection with a major property development project in Washington, D.C.  The “Development Consultant” sought more than $2,000,000 in damages, claiming breach of contract and wrongful termination of a development consulting agreement.  The arbitration panel dismissed all claims against our client and awarded nothing to the “Development Consultant.”
• Employment Discrimination
  Julia Dahlberg began practicing law in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP. She was elected to the partnership in 1994, and she managed complex trial and appellate litigation in state and federal courts pertaining to health care fraud, securities fraud, employment discrimination and antitrust matters. After taking time off to raise her children, Julie joined London and Mead in 2017. Julie is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. She clerked for Judge Harold Greene in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Mark has extensive experience in many areas of civil litigation. He has first-chaired about a dozen jury trials and about 20 bench trials in about that many courthouses. He has first-chaired about 20 arbitrations around the country. His specialty is trying to solve problems and get things done. He has represented clients and tried cases in an array of specialties: securities fraud, civil fraud, partnership disputes, civil conspiracy, law firm management, insurance coverage, complex divorce, a wide variety of real estate disputes, legal malpractice and the False Claims Act. He and Chris Mead have had primary responsibility for settlements in the False Claims area of more than $600 million (and tried such a case to a very successful judgment). Mark regularly represents lawyers and law firms, as well as other professionals, in disputes inter se, as well as those brought by third parties, including negligence. Mark often represents clients in Brazil. He represented Marriott International in a case that lasted more than three years involving the bankruptcy of a hotel in Rio de Janeiro, and he represents a hedge fund with claims against the promoter of an investment scheme, its custodian and administrator. For about 15 years Mark acted as outside general counsel for Giant Food and had responsibility for internal investigations involving misuse of company assets, employment discrimination, disputes among vendors, as well as a suit against the bank issuing Giant’s credit card. He acted as supervisor of outside counsel in a class action discrimination case against the company. He has conducted internal investigations in the United States and foreign countries for the Inter-American Development Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, and provides supports to investigations conducted by the World Bank.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy