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Patricia Rosier

Patricia Rosier received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Denver College of Law and her B.S. from Colorado State University. She is one of the managing partners at the Law Offices of Rosier & Associates and brings over forty (40) years of legal experience and more than thirty (30) years of real estate experience. Her background includes the implementation and development of housing policies, assessment of current and future real estate needs for both ownership and rental, and advocacy for affordable housing in local communities.

Leadership & National Bar Association Involvement

Attorney Rosier has served in leadership roles with numerous bar organizations, including the National Bar Association (NBA), where she served as its 71st President. During her presidency, she was honored to speak before 300,000 people and more than five million viewers worldwide at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, with a focus on affordable housing and foreclosure remedies. She is the Co-Founder of the National Bar Association Small Firms/Solo Practitioners’ Division and currently serves as Chair Emeritus.

Real Estate & Business Leadership

Attorney Rosier founded her own title company over fourteen (14) years ago and is believed to have been one of the first African-American female owners of a title company in the State of Maryland. She is also the Principal Broker and President of PAM Enterprises Realty, a real estate brokerage firm serving Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Bar & Professional Associations

Attorney Rosier has served on the Board of the Prince George’s County Bar Association and as Vice President of the Washington Bar Association. She is a member of the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association, GWAC, the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, and the Maryland State Bar Association. She is also a member of the National Association of Realtors, the Prince George’s County Association of Realtors, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers, and African American Real Estate Professionals.

Civic, Faith & Community Involvement

Attorney Rosier is a member of Reid Temple AME Church in Glenn Dale, Maryland. She is also affiliated with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated; Jack & Jill of America, Incorporated; The Links, Incorporated; International Women’s Forum; The Society, Incorporated; and the Delta Foundation, Incorporated.

Personal Background

Attorney Rosier is married to Michael Rosier, NBA Past President. They are the first and only couple to have served as Presidents of the National Bar Association. She has three adult children and five grandchildren.

Keith E. Haynes

A member of the Angelos law team since 1989, Keith is a trial attorney who focuses primarily on Products Liability/ Mass Tort Litigation and Asbestos Litigation in Maryland and the District of Columbia resulting in the successful recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation on behalf of the firm’s clients.

Notably, Keith also worked as a key attorney on behalf of the firm representing families adversely affected by the contamination of fly ash, resulting in a settlement valued over $54 million dollars against Constellation Energy.

Although he has the distinction of working as part of the Angelos legal team on some of the largest and most historic trials in legal history, he also represented clients in the areas of Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Social Security Disability and Workers’ Compensation.

Keith has successfully represented clients at the appellate level in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (Alliegro v. AC&S, Inc. 691 A.2d 1997) addressing issues of asbestos litigation in the District of Columbia and in the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (Richard Baker v. 24 F.3d 632) addressing issues of worker’s compensation in Maryland.

In addition to his legal practice, was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in 2002 and reelected for 5 consecutive terms representing Baltimore City. During his tenure in the Maryland General Assembly, Haynes served at the highest levels of the House Leadership including Dep. Majority Leader, Dep. Majority Whip, and as one of the longest serving members of the House Appropriations Committee and Capital Budget Committee. Haynes served as Chair of the Public Safety and Administration subcommittee which oversees the budget of every major agency and department in Maryland. Prior to being elected to the House of Delegates, he worked as a registered lobbyist representing working men and women on behalf of the firm before the Maryland legislature. 

Keith has been recognized as Highly Rated in Legal Ability and Ethical Standards Peer Review by Martindale-Hubbell since 2014. Additionally, he has been recognized as The Nation’s Top One Percent of Lawyers by The National Association of Distinguished Counsel since 2022; recognized by The Nation’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers since 2022; and recognized by the National Black Lawyers Top 100 since 2023. 

Practice Areas

Education

Bar Admissions

Professional Associations

Pro-Bono Activities

Pawnee Davis

Pawnee A. Davis is a tenacious advocate for her clients, naturally analytic, and a problem solver. While being empathetic and compassionate with clients, she fights hard toward her client's goals, and for what is right.

With 15 years as a practicing attorney, Ms. Davis provides expertise for clients in moderate to high-net-worth contested divorces, high-conflict divorces, uncontested divorces, contempt and modification matters, child custody, visitation, child support, jurisdictional (UCCJEA) issues, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. For some time, she also handled civil domestic violence matters, and never lost a domestic violence trial. 

The key to some of Ms. Davis’s success is the 10 years of previous investigative, evaluation, and financial and non-financial audit experience at the nation’s leading professional services agency, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). Ms. Davis served as a senior-level analyst for the U.S. GAO. For a decade, she helped the agency provide fact-based, non-partisan information, analysis, and recommendations, on federal and federally funded programs, to Congress and the public. 

Though a native Northern California, Ms. Davis's advanced degrees are from the East and Mid-Atlantic regions. She is a graduate of University of Pittsburgh School of Law and served as an Editor for 2 years on the law school's Journal of Technology, Law, and Policy at University of Pittsburgh. While there she earned the CALI Excellence For the Future Award for her excellent legal research, analysis and writing skills. Ms. Davis also holds a Master's degree in Public Administration that she earned summa cum laude and with Distinction. 

Ms. Davis is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Maryland State Bar Association (MSBA), MSBA Family Law Section, Maryland Association for Justice, The National Black Lawyers, J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association, Association of Women Attorneys, and the Native American Bar Association of Washington, DC. A few of the awards Ms. Davis has received include 47 Best Washington, DC Attorneys; Top 100 National Black Lawyers (Washington, D.C.); Top Rated Lawyers in Maryland; Lawyers of Distinction; and Super Lawyers, Rising Star.

Dennis Whitley, III

Dennis Whitley, III, a life-long resident of Prince George’s County, Maryland, graduated from Rutgers School of Law, Newark, New Jersey in 1996, and is admitted to practice before the State and Federal Courts in the District of Columbia and the State of Maryland.

Mr. Whitley focuses his practice in the area of general civil and appellate litigation, administrative law, land use and zoning. He represents clients in complex administrative and constitutional matters relating to zoning violations, administrative appeals, landlord and tenant, breach of contract and personal injury matters, appearing regularly before state trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals. Mr. Whitley’s extensive litigation experience includes being the sole or lead attorney handling jury and bench trials in both District and Circuit Courts throughout the State. He has also successfully participated in dozens of appeals in the Maryland appellate courts, appearing before both the Court of Appeals and the Court of Special Appeals.

Mr. Whitley is also involved in professional, civic and community activities in Prince George’s County and the State. He has served as a court-appointed trustee in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County and as a mediator in the District Court for Prince George’s County. He is an appointed member of the Maryland Attorney Grievance Commission and serves on the Board of Directors for the Maryland Assembly for School-Based Healthcare, Inc. Mr. Whitley is also an active member of the Laurel community, currently serving as a member of the City of Laurel’s Greenbuild and Moderately Priced Dwelling Task Force. He is also previous member of the Board of Directors for the Ashford Homeowners’ Association and a current member of the Wellington Architectural Review Committee.

Mr. Whitley is an active member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the Prince George’s County Bar Association and the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association.

Bar Admissions

• Maryland

• District of Columbia

Education

• JD, Rutgers School of Law

• BA, Morgan State University

Tillena Clark

Tillena G. Clark is an attorney-CPA and solo practitioner in Montgomery County, Maryland. She concentrates her practice in the areas of Wills, Trusts, Estates, Probate, and Taxation. She has extensive experience in estate planning, and drafting wills and trust documents that minimize federal and state taxes, safeguard assets, and preserve wealth.
Ms. Clark is admitted to practice in the state of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Maryland.
Prior to establishing her law practice in 2006, Ms. Clark worked as a CPA and financial statements auditor of Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions at a certified public accounting firm based in New York City. She also worked as an attorney-advisor at a federal financial institutions regulatory agency in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Clark received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in economics from the University of Rochester in New York. She graduated from The Catholic University of America where she earned a Master of Arts degree in Management, and later, a Juris Doctor degree from the Columbus School of Law.
While studying law as an evening law student, Ms. Clark was a student attorney in the Columbus Community Legal Services (CCLS) Advocacy for the Elderly clinic. She also worked as a law clerk in the Chambers of the Honorable Loren A. Smith, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Ms. Clark is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association's Estate & Trust Law, Taxation Law, and Solo & Small Firm Practice sections. She is also a member of the American Association of Attorneys-Certified Public Accountants. She is recognized by The National Black Lawyers Top 100 as one of the top 100 African American attorneys in Maryland.
In addition to her law practice, Ms. Clark is an adjunct faculty member at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, where she has lectured on the business of law and law practice management since 2010.