Mort Faller is a nationally recognized bankruptcy practitioner, commercial litigator and mediator.  Mr. Faller is co-chair of the Firm's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group and the Title Dispute Resolution Group.  His practice consists of business bankruptcy reorganizations and litigation, business transactions and litigation, real estate transactions and title disputes, civil litigation and estate planning and administration. He has extensive experience before the Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Maryland and the District of Columbia. He was a founding director of the Bankruptcy Bar Association of the District of Maryland and is a past President of that Association. He has represented Debtors in numerous successful reorganizations, including real estate developers and entities, multi-store retailers, restaurants and individuals. He has represented lenders, landlords and committees in complex reorganization cases.  Mr. Faller also has extensive experience in litigating and/or resolving real estate title disputes and claims on behalf of national title insurers and their insured. 

Mr. Faller has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2007 - 2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America, in District of Columbia Superlawyers, and Maryland Superlawyers.  Mr. Faller was also selected as a Top Bankruptcy Lawyer in Washingtonian Magazine in 2007 and 2009.

Mr. Faller also serves as a mediator in complex commercial litigation matters in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, as a Resolution Advocate (mediator) in matters in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland and as a mediator in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.  In 2006, he became a member of The McCammon Group, comprised of 65 retired judges and prominent attorneys who handle a broad range of mediation cases. 

Prior to joining Shulman Rogers in 1998, Mr. Faller was managing partner of the Washington, D.C. firm of Meyer, Faller, Weisman and Rosenberg, P.C., with whom he was associated from 1973 through 1998. He is a frequent lecturer to attorneys in continuing legal education courses in the areas of bankruptcy and business transactions.

News

• Mort Faller and Steve Metz Obtain Confirmation of Secured Creditor's Plan in Contested Confirmation Hearing Regarding Competing Chapter 11 Plans
• Shulman Rogers Has Thirteen Attorneys Named to the 2009 Super Lawyers Listing for Washington, D.C.

Publications

• Dispute Resolution of Bankruptcy Cases, Maryland Law Journal, Sept/Oct, 2005

Professional & Community Affiliations

• Bankruptcy Bar Association of the District of Maryland, Founding Director, Past President 
• American Bankruptcy Institute, Member
• Maryland State Bar Association, Member
• Montgomery County Maryland Bar Association, Member
• The McCammon Group, Member
• Alpha Epsilon Pi