Attorney Profiles
George E. Meng, Member
Since 1973, Mr. Meng has been litigating estate, trust and real property cases. These include will contests, improper handling of estate or trust funds, disputes relating to distributions from estates and trusts, boundary disputes and title issues at both the trial and appellate level. Routine probate, wills, trusts and estate planning are also an integral part of his experience. In addition, Mr. Meng's practice includes personal injury litigation and civil litigation in a variety of fields.
His practice has been based primarily in the town of Upper Marlboro, the county seat for Prince George's County, Maryland.
The degree that Mr. Meng personally holds most significant is one he received as a teenager from the DeVry Technical Institute in Chicago in Radio & TV Servicing. It became, for him, the start of a lifelong quest for knowledge and a particular appreciation for the smallest details and intricately technical things.
Mr. Meng holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the Catholic University of America, graduating in 1967 from the Department of Space Science and Applied Physics. Upon graduation, he worked for Westinghouse as a Field Engineer and then as senior engineering staff assistant. In his six years with Westinghouse, he worked with the Navy on the radar and weapons control system for the Phantom F4-J aircraft. After deployments as a civilian aboard the USS Independence in 1968 and the USS Enterprise in 1969, he returned to Westinghouse headquarters in Baltimore. He then attended law school at Catholic University in the evenings and graduated after three and a half years with his Juris Doctor in 1973 in the top ten percent of his class. He was also selected for the Law Review and in his second year was Comment Editor.
The development of Mr. Meng's legal career began when, in 1972, he clerked for a Maryland Court of Special Appeals judge. In 1973, he joined the law firm of Pitrof & Starkey as an associate. In 1979, Mr. Meng became a sole practitioner and in 1983, he formed a law firm with three other lawyers to become Greenan, Walker, Steuart & Meng.
From 1973 to 1990, along with a continuing estate and trust practice, a significant part of his focus was in family law (mostly divorce and custody) litigation.
Between 1990 and 1992, Mr. Meng transitioned from his practice of family law to a practice which, in addition to estate and trust work, included a primary focus on personal injury litigation. Most of his work was as outside insurance defense counsel for the State Farm Insurance Companies. Mr. Meng was asked to work for State Farm Insurance, which he did with notable success providing him with valuable and significant jury trial experience in the auto accident field.
In 1998, Mr. Meng decided to begin the transformation of his practice so that his primary focus would be estate, trust and real property litigation. This was a natural shift as handling family members, who have significant emotional issues related to a person who has died or setting up the trust of other family members, posed a professional and personal dynamic similar to family law. Mr. Meng says of his experiences, "I enjoy the personal contact and representing individuals. I've had my share of difficult times. These life lessons have made dealing with the realities of death and dying relatively comfortable for me. They have also lead me to be quite tolerant and understanding."
For many years, Mr. Meng has been dedicated to upholding the integrity of the legal profession. In the 1970s, he was the co-founder of a formal bar organization to assist lawyers in need of assistance due to emotional, substance abuse and other practice problems. It was one of the first such organizations in the United States. Since early in his practice, he has been involved with ethical matters, first as a member of the local ethics committee and then as a member of the Inquiry Panel for Maryland's Attorney Grievance Commission, which handles the discipline of lawyers. He started this work in 1982. He served a 3-year term as a member of the Review Board and until June 2007, was a member of the Peer Review Panel often serving as Chairman. In July 2007, he commenced a 3-year term as a Commissioner for the Attorney Grievance Commission.
Since the mid 1980s, Mr. Meng has carried the highest available rating from Martindale Hubbell. He is listed in their publication of Preeminent Lawyers in the United States.
In conjunction with his legal acumen, Mr. Meng has notable technological experience. His first computer programming was done in 1965. Around 1980, Mr. Meng was one of the first lawyers to implement computers into the law practice. He was the first lawyer in Maryland to use Lexis - Nexis CDROM research and the first lawyer in Maryland to electronically transmit a court pleading to a court. Essentially, this technological proficiency translates into lower costs to the client as the time expended by the attorney is significantly decreased.
Mr. Meng is the fourth child down in a family of eight children, born to parents that held strong to the philosophy that their inheritance for their children would be a good education. He is married and, in his spare time, is usually involved in either community or church activities. Mr. Meng comments, "I've gotten to the point in life where I've become my own mentor. But certainly, the most important role model in my life was my father, who was President of Hunter College in NYC and then Marymount College in Tarrytown, NY."
With a wealth of hands-on litigation and probate experience, Mr. Meng offers to his clients the rare and valuable combination of a lawyer who not only prepares wills and trust documents but who also knows first hand how these plans play out in real life. Added to this, he has many years of practical small business experience.
Mr. Meng concludes, "I hold my integrity as most important. My ability to communicate in an honest, straightforward and complete way is a close second." Mr. Meng's vast and broad knowledge of many different areas of the law, as well as his many diverse life experiences, allow him to speak relevantly and act effectively and successfully in life and career.
To arrange for further information, please call 301-627-1600 and ask for George Meng.
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