Marc Fiedler

Attorney

40 yrs experience
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Washington, DC

Bar admissions

District of Columbia
Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Supreme Court

Education

JD: Harvard Law School1984
Undergraduate: Harvard College1978

Awards and recognition

01Lawyer of the Year, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington D.C. (1989)
02President's Award, Trial Lawyers Association (2002)
03Alfred McKenzie Award, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (2002)
04Trailblazer Award, District of Columbia Courts (2002)
05The Best Lawyers in America (2006-present)
06Super Lawyers (2009-present)
07Washingtonian Magazine Top Lawyers (2004, 2018)
08AV Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell (1996-present)
09Who's Who in America (2005-present)

Memberships

President, Trial Lawyers' Association of Metropolitan Washington D.C. (2001-2002)
Chair, Appellate-Advocacy Committee, Trial Lawyers' Association
Co-Chair, Appellate-Advocacy Committee, American Association for Justice
Chairman, Disability Rights Council, Equal Rights Center

Publications

Ten articles in DC TRIAL on evidence law, statutory procedures, and tort principles (2004-2008)

Background

Marc Fiedler is a partner at Koonz McKenney Johnson & DePaolis LLP in Washington, D.C., and one of the preeminent appellate lawyers in the metropolitan D.C. area. His practice focuses on personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability, premises liability, governmental negligence, and workplace accidents. A graduate of Harvard College (B.A., cum laude, 1978) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1984), Marc clerked for the Honorable James A. Belson of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals before joining Koonz in 1985. He became a partner in 1994. A quadriplegic who uses a wheelchair, Marc is a leading advocate for disability rights and has chaired the Disability Rights Council of the Equal Rights Center. He has served as President of the Trial Lawyers' Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., and as co-chair of the Appellate-Advocacy Committee of the American Association for Justice.

Notable cases

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Successful appeals in workplace injury, medical malpractice, Metro transit accident, scaffold injury, and disability discrimination cases

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