Bruce Plaxen

Bruce M. Plaxen is the founding partner of Plaxen Adler Muncy, P.A., a personal injury firm based in Columbia, Maryland. Over more than 40 years he has represented people and families harmed by negligence in motor vehicle, wrongful death, premises liability, product liability and medical malpractice cases, including claims arising from the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Plaxen served as the 80th president of the American Association for Justice, the first lawyer from the Maryland bar to lead the organization, and is now AAJ’s immediate past president. He has sat on AAJ’s Board of Governors since 2003 and held nearly every officer post before his presidency. In Maryland, he served as president of the Maryland Association for Justice from 2001 to 2002 and chaired its political action committee for many years.

He earned his law degree from American University Washington College of Law and a bachelor’s degree cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany, and he was admitted in Maryland in 1982. After the Sept. 11 attacks he helped organize Trial Lawyers Care, which offered free legal help to the families of victims. He was named Maryland Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2009.