John M. Murdock

Background

About John M. Murdock

JOHN M. MURDOCK – is a principal shareholder in Potter & Murdock, P.C. Over the last 30 years he has provided strategic counsel to businesses in all phases of development, from start-ups to fully mature, on how to approach critical business issues in light of his clients’ overall business circumstances and objectives. Mr. Murdock also represents clients in the firm’s five core areas of practice: government contracts, employment, litigation, corporate, and health care, with a principal focus on litigation. He has represented clients in litigation in more than 21 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and private arbitration and mediation tribunals in a variety of matters. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth, D.C, and Federal Circuits, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the Eastern District of Virginia, and the District of Maryland; and the Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Murdock is a graduate of Williams College, B.A, 1981, and Vanderbilt University School of Law, J.D, 1985. Prior to joining Potter & Murdock, P.C, as a shareholder, Mr. Murdock was a partner in the litigation and health law practices of the Washington, D. C. office of Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C. Mr. Murdock has also served as an in-house counsel to the Travelers Insurance Companies in Hartford, Connecticut, and as a litigator with the law firm of Robertson, Notarius & McNeil in Arlington, Virginia. He has been an adjunct professor of law at the Washington School of Law at American University, where he taught a course entitled Health Care Litigation and Dispute Resolution. Mr. Murdock currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Women and Minority Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and serves on the Booz Allen Foundation Board and the board of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. Previously, he has served on the boards of Odyssey House, and the United Health Care Children’s Foundation.