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| Charles E. Wilson, III
Partner Practice Areas: Arbitration and Mediation Biography: Chuck was born in Washington, D.C., in 1965, and was raised in Montgomery County. While in high school, he traveled the United States and England playing soccer. He attended Rockville High School and played on the school's first soccer State Championship Team. His college years were spent at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, and he was graduated in 1987 with a degree in Political Science and a minor in History. Chuck completed law school at American University, Washington College of Law in 1990. While attending law school, Chuck studied trial practice under the guidance of The Honorable John McAuliffe of the Maryland Court of Appeals and The Honorable Rosalyn Bell of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. After graduating in 1990, Chuck clerked for The Honorable William Cave of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland. Chuck is a member of several different Bar Associations and is active as a Court Mediator and Arbitrator in several jurisdictions. He previously served the Bar Association on the Ethics and Fee Dispute Committees. He has litigated hundreds of jury trials to verdict and has been named several times as one of Maryland and Washington D.C.'s Super Lawyers. He has concentrated his practice primarily in the areas of insurance defense, insurance coverage, personal injury and construction. Chuck has been a Deacon of First Baptist Church of Frederick and was a manager for the Frederick County Emergency Cold Weather Shelter. He has traveled to Romania with The Smiles Foundation to work with abandoned children. His spare time is spent traveling, hiking and attending music concerts. Memberships and Awards: Washington County Bar Association Education: The Citadel, B.S., 1987; Western New England College Reported Cases: Blackburn v. Erie Insurance Group, 971 A.2nd 368 (2009) Andre Forte
Partner Practice Areas: Civil Litigation Biography: Andre grew up in Queens, New York, where he attended Archbishop Molloy High School. Before he graduated from Molloy in 1987, Andre played on two city championship baseball teams, held records in the 60 yard dash and 4 x 100 relay as a member of the track team and wrote for the school newspaper. Andre earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from LeMoyne College where he graduated magna cum laude in 1991. Andre played fall baseball his first two years at LeMoyne before interning at a law firm in Washington, D.C. While at LeMoyne Andre was inducted into the National Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu. After college Andre attended the National Law Center at George Washington University. During college and his first year of law school, Andre worked for a small real estate firm. During his second and third years of law school, Andre was a law clerk for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, for which he was granted a 1993 Murray-Snyder Fellowship. Andre helped choreograph and direct the law school's annual musical and variety show. He was inducted into and became President of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity and was awarded the 1993 Samuel Green Scholarship. Andre was also honored as Phi Delta Phi's 1994 Graduate of the Year from those law students who graduated from law schools in the Washington, D.C. region. Upon graduating from law school, Andre clerked for the Honorable Frederick D. Dorsey of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. During Judge Dorsey's medical leave of absence, Andre clerked with the Honorable Nan R. Shuker and the Honorable Rufus King, III. Following the completion of his clerkship, Andre worked as an associate at another District of Columbia firm and was a partner at a mid-sized Montgomery County based law firm for over a decade before leaving and forming Wilson Forte LLP. During the last three years at his previous firm, Andre was the partner responsible for managing the firm's Baltimore office. Since 2010, Andre has been a principal in the law firm of Wilson Forte, LLP. Andre is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars and their respective bar associations. Andre is also a member of the United States District Courts of Maryland and the District of Columbia. He is also licensed to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Andre was elected to the Steering Committee for the Injury to Persons and Property Section of the District of Columbia Bar in 2012 and served as the Co-Chair of that section in 2013 and 2014. Andre also had the honor of being selected as a member of the George Washington American Inn of Court where he served in several officer positions including President during the 2003-2004 term. Andre has also appeared as a guest lecturer on Montgomery County's television program "Law School for the Public." Andre served as an officer for the District of Columbia Defense Lawyers' Association and had the honor as serving as its President for the 2008-2009 term. Andre has been a lector for several continuing legal education seminars for the Worker's Compensation and Personal Injury Sections of the Montgomery County Bar Association as well as at the DCDLA Annual Convention and D.C. Bar Association. Andre was a member of the Board of Directors for Maryland Defense Counsel from 2009 to 2013. In 2009, Andre was awarded the Exceptional Performance Citation by DRI (National Defense Regional Institute). Andre has been a member of the Advisory Committee for the Small Claims Rules Committee for the Superior Court for the District of Columbia since 2005. He currently served as the Co-Chair for the Personal Injury Section of the Montgomery County Bar Association from 2008 to 2016, and in 2016 was honored as the Section Co-Chair of the Year. Since the summer of 2019, Andre has served on the Judicial Nominating Commission for the Montgomery County Bar Association. Andre was asked by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to become a member of the COVID-19 Task Force to address the delays in civil litigation caused by the pandemic. Andre's trial accomplishments and efforts to represent defendants in civil cases were recognized when the DC Defense Lawyers' Association honored him with the Lawyer of the Year Award which was presented by the Honorable Nan R. Shuker in June, 2014. Andre was a recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and has been recognized as One of America's Top 100 Civil Litigators in the United States since 2018. Andre and his wife, reside in Wheaton, Maryland with their two daughters and their golden doodle. Andre is a Eucharistic Minister at St. John the Evangelist in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he and his wife have led and participated in the Children's Liturgy, Baptism Preparation and High School CCD programs. Andre enjoys participating in most sports, and has captained the Montgomery County All Star Softball Team on several occasions - leading the team to the Maryland State Bar Association championship in 2019. Andre has been the Tennis Chair for the Montgomery County Bar Foundation Fall Outing for over a decade. He is currently the commissioner of the Montgomery County Bar Association Softball League. Bar and Court Admissions: Maryland, 1994 Education: LeMoyne College, 1991, magna cum laude Memberships and Awards: District of Columbia Defense Lawyer's Association Lawyer of the Year 2013-2014 Reported Cases: Amantangelo v. Schultz, 870 A.2d 548 (D.C. 2005) Jennifer Servary
Partner Biography Jennifer Servary was born and raised in Burtonsville, MD. She graduated from Paint Branch High School in 2005. Jennifer attended Towson University, graduating magna cum laude with a B.A. in Law and American Civilization with a minor in Spanish in 2009. She received her law degree from the University Of Baltimore School Of Law and was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2012. While at University of Baltimore, she was an associate editor for the University of Baltimore Law Forum and interned with the Honorable Marybeth McCormick for the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. Prior to joining Wilson Forte, Jennifer served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Judge Daniel P. Dwyer for the Circuit Court for Washington County. She worked during law school at various personal injury firms, and served as a legislative legal intern to Delegate Dana Stein in the Maryland House of Delegates. Since joining the practice, Jennifer has litigated extensively throughout the various jurisdictions in Maryland and in D.C. She primarily handles suits in the areas of insurance defense, insurance coverage and personal injury. Bar and Court Admissions: Maryland, 2012 Education: University of Baltimore School of Law, J.D. 2012 Membership and Awards: Washington County Bar Association Isaac Morgan
Associate Biography: Isaac Morgan was born in Oregon and raised in Mount Airy, MD. He graduated from Glenelg High School in 2001. Isaac attended McDaniel College, graduating with an honors History B.A. in in 2005. He received his law degree from The Pennsylvania State University -The Dickinson School of Law in 2009. He passed the Pennsylvania Bar in 2009 and the Maryland Bar in 2010. Bar and Court Admissions: 2012, Maryland Education: The Pennsylvania State University - The Dickinson School of Law, J.D. 2009 Membership and Awards: District of Columbia Bar Association |
