Ronald U. Shaw is a trial lawyer who specializes in defending health care providers in medical malpractice cases, licensing and credentialing matters, and in handling serious personal injury matters. Since 1983, he has represented over 2,000 health care providers and has tried over 150 medical malpractice jury trials. Ron also represented individuals seriously injured in nonmedical matters.
Ron has taught grand rounds at the University of Maryland Medical Center, lectured on medical malpractice at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, taught physicians insured by Medical Mutual on risk management issues, and lectured at Stevenson University.
Ron was selected as a Maryland Super Lawyer every year since 2008. He has earned and maintained the top Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV.
Ron graduated from Harvard University with an A.B., cum laude, in 1975, and from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, with honors, in 1979. He is admitted to practice in Maryland and Florida.
Practice Areas
- Medical Malpractice Defense
- Medical Professional Licensing and Discipline
- Plaintiff’s Serious Personal Injury (nonmedical)
- General Trial Practice
- Physician Defense
- Hospital Defense
Cushman v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore City (emergency medicine)
Davis v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore City (general surgery)
Rusten v. Physician, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (general surgery)
Scruggs v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (general surgery)
Franklin v. CRNP, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (oncology)
Derera v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (gastroenterology)
Johnson v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (internal medicine)
McKenney v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (emergency medicine)
Nieves v. Hospital, Circuit Court for Baltimore City (hospital case)
Owrutsky v. Physician, Circuit Court for Howard County (internal medicine)
Parker v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (emergency medicine)
Watson v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore County (emergency medicine)
Shaver v. Physician, Circuit Court for Baltimore City (gastroenterology)
Hitt v. Physicians, Circuit Court for Prince George’s County (trauma)
- Maryland, 1979
- Florida, 1983
- U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 1989
- University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
J.D. – 1979
Honors: With Honors - Harvard University
A.B. cum laude – 1975
- Wadsworth v. Sharma, 479 Md. 606 (2022)
- Burks v. Allen, 238 Md. App. 418 (2018)
- Barnes v. GBMC, 210 Md. App. 457 (2013)
- Wobleski v. DeLara, 353 Md. 509 (1999)
- Smith v. Pearre, 96 Md. App. 376 (1993)
- Farwell v. Un, 902 F.2d. 282 (1990)
- Meda v. Brown, 318 Md. 418 (1990)
- Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland
- Johns Hopkins Medicine
- University of Maryland Medical System
- Lecturer, Medical Malpractice, Johns Hopkins Hospital
- Lecturer, Medical Malpractice, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
- Lecturer, Medical Malpractice, Stevenson University
- Maryland Super Lawyer @, 2008-2014, 2016-2023
- Top Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV
- Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
- National Association of Distinguished Counsel – Nation’s Top One Percent
- Weinberg & Green, 1979 – 1983
- Miles & Stockbridge, 1983 – 1993
- Board of Directors – Westminster Rescue Mission, 2015-2021
- Chair of Trustees – Hereford United Methodist Church, 2007-2011
In college, Ron participated in heavyweight crew at Harvard, remaining undefeated all four years in intercollegiate competition. As a senior, he was a member of the Rude and Smooth crew (so named by Sports Illustrated) that won the unofficial national championship, setting course records for the fastest times ever on three different courses, including at Henley, where competition had been held since 1839. Ron further traveled with the Harvard crew twice to compete in Egypt on the Nile against Cambridge and Oxford crews from England, and the Yale and Egyptian University crews.
After college and law school, Ron became an accomplished runner and ultra runner, completing the Boston Marathon, the New York Marathon, the Marine Corps Marathon and the Maryland Marathon multiple times, in under two hours and 50 minutes. He has also completed the Western States Endurance Run (100 miles) and the Old Dominion One Hundred Mile Endurance Run multiple times. He also has completed more than 25 ultra marathons of 50 miles, including the John F. Kennedy (JFK) 50 Mile Run 10 times where he finished in the top 13 runners five times.