PROFILE

Mr. DiPaula’s practice includes representation of the firm’s clients in all facets of civil litigation, as well as criminal defense.  Tony has experience handling cases in nearly all District and Circuit Courts in the State. 

Prior to entering the practice of law and while finishing his education at the University of Baltimore School of Law, Tony served from January, 1983 through September, 1984 as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable A. Owen Hennegan, an associate judge on the Circuit Court for Baltimore County.  He left the clerkship after sitting for the Maryland Bar and immediately began working for a Towson firm where he remained for sixteen (16) years before departing to open a practice in Bel Air, close to home. Prior to clerking for Judge Hennegan, Tony’s prior legal experience included various assistant positions in the Baltimore County Office of Law, assisting the County Law Department in representing the various County agencies, and serving as an assistant librarian in the Baltimore County Bar Library.

On a personal level, Tony was born on April 17, and raised in the Randallstown area of Baltimore County.  Tony and his wife became homeowners in Bel Air in 1984 where they have raised their four children, and been very active in St. Margaret Catholic Church and School, and the Bel Air community.  Tony has coached youth baseball, coached basketball and chaired the Bel Air Boys Basketball Program, and serves on the Bel Air Recreation Committee Board of Directors. He continues to be actively involved as a Calvert Hall alumnus, and he and his wife serve as Co-Chairs of the Patriot Parent Association of The John Carroll School.

EDUCATION

Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, Maryland (1977)

§         Member, National Honor Society

Loyola College (BA, 1981, Political Science)

§         Member, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

University of Baltimore School of Law (J.D., 1984)

§         Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Equitable Remedies and Damages

§         Member, University of Baltimore Law Review (1982-1984), published Comment, “Requiring Criminal Defendants to Prove Blue Sky Exemptions: A Question of Due Process”, 13 U. Balt. L. Rev. 612 (1984).

COURT ADMISSIONS

§         Court of Appeals of Maryland, January 17, 1985

§         District of Columbia, March, 1985

§         United States District Court for the District of Maryland

§         United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland

§         United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 

§         United States District Court for the District of Columbia

§         United States Supreme Court (2008)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/BAR MEMBERSHIPS

§         Maryland State Bar Association

§         Baltimore County Bar Association

§         Harford County Bar Association

CIVIC, CHURCH AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

§         Bel Air Recreation Committee, Inc. (Parks & Rec), current Board Member; Program Chair, Boys Basketball Program (2001-06) and coach and age group commissioner 1997-2006.

§         Associated Italian American Charities of Maryland, Inc., Member since 1986, Past President and Board Member.

§         St. Margaret School, Home and School Association, former President, and Board Member from 2000-2005.

§         Co-Chair, John Carroll Patriot Parent Association, Exec. Committee