Wally Kleid

Highly qualified mediation, workers' compensation and criminal defense attorney with 50 years of litigation experience. Elected to the MSBA Board of Governors (2019-2021 & 2025-2028); presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2019); appointed to the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center's Patient and Family Advisory Council (2018-2024 & 2025-2027); established and sat as first Chairperson of the Maryland State Bar Association's General Practice Section; elected as the First Chair of Maryland State Bar Association's MSBA’S GPS (now Solo & Small Firm Section); two-term chairman of the Negligence, Insurance & Workers' Compensation Section of the Maryland State Bar Association; co-founder of MSAT-MD, a Medicare set aside advisory service; appointment as a Civil Mediator for the Circuit Courts for Baltimore City and Baltimore County; selected as a Super Lawyer from 2013-2018, 2020, and 2021; selected for the "Who's Who in America" Business & American Law editions; achieved a distinguished peer-reviewed rating in legal ability and ethical standards through Martindale-Hubbell in 2019 - 2025; nominated as a finalist in the Best Law Firm category for the 2019 Baltimore Style Readers’ Choice Awards; selected as the Workers' Compensation and Criminal Defense Law Firm of the Year in 2019 by KMH Media Group's Global 100. Wallace Kleid, Esquire LLC - "Choose the Best, Don't Settle for Less!"