Bruce H. Jurist

practice focuses on the substantive areas of corporate, finance, tax and real estate law. He counsels clients regarding mergers and acquisitions, joint venture arrangements, ongoing business operations, capital accumulation transactions, financing transactions, real property acquisition transactions and leasing. Mr. Jurist's practice involves a significant amount of work within certain industry groups including government, banking, energy, telecommunications and healthcare.

A member of the Maryland State and District of Columbia bar associations, Mr. Jurist is a 1983 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and research editor for the International Property Investment Journal, and a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center (LL.M., Taxation) and the University of Maryland (B.S., Business and Management).

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2007-present
•Hodes, Pessin & Katz, P.A.
- Shareholder, 2002-2007
•Neighborcare, Inc.
- Assistant General Counsel (on a contract basis), 2004-2005
•Blank Rome LLP
- Partner, 2000-2002
•Ober, Kaler, A Professional Corporation
- Shareholder, 1997-2000
•Venable LLP
- Partner, 1993-1997
- Of Counsel, 1992
- Associate, 1988-1991
•Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon
- Associate, 1986-1988
•Internal Revenue Service
Office of Chief Counsel, Legislation and Regulations Division
- Attorney/Advisor, 1983-1986

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Speaker, The Fourth Annual Liquidity and Capital Raising National Forum, CohnReznick, November 5, 2014
•Moderator, Trends and New Deal Structures: What Lies Ahead, Duane Morris Municipal Finance Webinar, March 22, 2011
•Contesting Your Property Real Property Tax Assessment, On Air - Business Connection, Maryland Public Television, - February 2007
•Mergers and Acquisitions, AM-IQ Panel with SmartCEO, presented by ACG Maryland, November 2004

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Smart CEO's Leading Lawyers, 2011
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Board Memberships

•Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore
-Board Member
•PACT - Helping Children with Special Needs (Kennedy Krieger Institute Affiliate)
- Former Member, Board of Directors
•CollegeBound Foundation
- Former Board Member