Juanita F. Ferguson

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Ms. Ferguson is an associate with the firm with an emphasis on litigation. She has litigated construction defects, mechanic's liens, premises liabilities, negligence, employment, and insurance defense matters and has represented businesses and individuals. She has jury trial experience in Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Ms. Ferguson is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Western District of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Ferguson is a member of the Virginia State Bar, the District of Columbia Bar, the Maryland State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Old Dominion Bar Association, and the Northern Virginia Black Attorneys Association.

Ms. Ferguson was recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers as a "Rising Star" in July 2010.

Prior to practicing law, Ms. Ferguson was a law clerk from 1999 to 2000 to the Honorable Anita Josey-Herring and the Honorable Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., both at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

Ms. Ferguson is also a member of the adjunct faculty at the Washington College of Law at American University. In addition, she has authored several industry specific articles such as "Minimizing the Likelihood of Masonry Litigation" in Masonry Magazine November 2010, "The Hidden and Not-So-Hidden Costs of Public Contracts" in Masonry Magazine March 2011 and "Pluses and Minuses: Cost Plus V. Fixed Price Contracts" in Construction Accounting and Taxation September/October 2010.

Ms. Ferguson is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and earned her law degree from the George Washington University Law School. During law school, she was a member of the Moot Court Board, the Trial Court Board, and DC Law Students in Court, where she represented criminal defendants as a student attorney. She also studied International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.