Attorneys

Larry S. Gibson

Of Counsel lsg@shapirosher.com

36 South Charles Street
Suite 2000
Baltimore, MD 21201

410.385.4242 ph
410.539.7611 fax

Larry S. Gibson serves as Of Counsel to the Firm and concentrates in litigation and administrative law. He has been teaching law since 1972 and continues to serve as a Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he teaches Evidence, Civil Procedure, Racial Discrimination and the Law, and Election Law. He has also taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Aberdeen (Scotland).

Mr. Gibson was Campaign Manager for the Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke in his successful elections in 1987, 1991, and 1995 as Mayor of the City of Baltimore. He has run numerous other election campaigns, including the 1992 Clinton presidential campaign in Maryland. In recent years, he has advised the campaigns of African political leaders, including the President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

During the administration of President Jimmy Carter, Mr. Gibson was Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States. In that capacity, he served as vice chairman of the National Security Council Working Group on Terrorism, which coordinated the counter-terrorism efforts of numerous federal agencies, and director of the National Economic Crimes Project at the U.S. Department of Justice. He planned and coordinated various matters relating to the activities of the Justice Department, including investigations, corrections, law enforcement assistance, and intergovernmental relations.

From 1973 to 1977, Mr. Gibson was on the faculty of the American Academy of Judicial Education. In the 1980s he served as Reporter to the Maryland Court of Appeals Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and played a major role in the reorganization of the Maryland Rules of Procedure. He also served for ten years on the committee of the National Board of Law Examiners that develops the Evidence section of the Multi-State Bar Examination. Since 1990 he has been a member of the American Law Institute, which drafts Restatements of the Law.

Mr. Gibson is currently involved in representing the World Umpires Association, a client of the Firm. His work with the organization takes him to countries where baseball is a popular sport, such as Venezuela and Cuba. In the course of business and pleasure he has visited more than 50 nations in all parts of the world.

News & Publications

November 15, 2011: The Washington Post features Larry Gibson in "Morgan State honors its civil rights sit-in pioneers."

October 7, 2011: The Baltimore Sun reports on Larry Gibson's role in the presidential campaign of Liberia's first female president, who was recently awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

May 10, 2011: Larry Gibson is quoted in the Maryland Daily Record regarding a vote by Baltimore's architectural panel.

October 21, 2010: Larry Gibson featured in the Maryland Daily Record.

February 4, 2010: Larry Gibson is quoted in The Baltimore Sun's mayoral profile.

December 2, 2008: The Maryland Daily Record reports on Gibson's role as senior political consultant. 

September 25-28, 2008: Mr. Gibson addresses the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Just the Beginning Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing and nurturing interest in the law among young people of color and other groups under-represented in the legal profession.

September 20, 2008: Tracking Marshall's Steps to the Supreme Court. The Washington Post reports on an exhibit focusing on the early years of Thurgood Marshall's legal career. Created by Mr. Gibson, the exhibit is on view at the University of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Gibson also spoke on the subject on the WYPR program "Maryland Morning" on September 22.

March 6, 2008: WBAL-TV talks to Larry Gibson about the role Maryland's superdelegates could play at the Democratic National Convention.

"100 Years: The Twelve Events that Shaped Baltimore." The July 2007 issue of Baltimore Magazine examines the impact of Donald Gaines Murray's 1935 lawsuit against the University of Maryland, "the first successful school desegregation case of any kind in the United States," according to Larry S. Gibson, who is quoted at length throughout the article.