Maryland Legal Research Services For Attorneys
The National Legal Research Group was founded in 1969 to provide quality research and writing services to law firms of all shapes and sizes. More than 50 years, 50,000 clients and 185,000 research projects later, we still have the same goal.
We have served over 1600 attorneys in Maryland on over 2800 cases. We list some of these attorneys below, along with what they have said about our services.
NLRG offers a broad range of work products, both objective and advocacy. Our objective products can help you evaluate a case or give you sources to cite in a work product of your own. Our most common advocacy product is a motion brief or trial brief. Earlier in the case, we can draft complaints, answers, and motions, including discovery motions. We also draft signature-ready appellate briefs to the Maryland Supreme Court and the Maryland Appellate Court. Here is a broader discussion of the types of products we prepare.
Many of our clients are solo practitioners and small firms. We take great pride in allowing these clients access to the same legal research firepower enjoyed by larger firms, at an affordable price. We cannot work for non-attorneys.
We have over 25 research attorneys. Some work at our headquarters building just west of Charlottesville, Virginia; others work remotely. We list below our attorneys who most regularly work on Maryland cases. You can also view full biographies of our entire attorney staff. We specialize by area of law, and many of our attorneys have years of experience working in their areas. All of our research projects are done by human attorneys; we use AI only as one among many research tools.
Our normal turnaround time is 2-3 weeks, but we can sometimes do quick email or telephone reports in as little as 1-2 days, though at a higher billing rate. Here is a full list of our billing rates.
Maryland Legal Research Attorney Spotlight
Senior Research Attorney Amy Gore
Senior Research Attorney Amy Gore
After working in private practice in North Carolina, Amy joined the NLRG staff in 1988. Amy specializes in insurance, attorney-client and ethics, and defamation and invasion of privacy matters. She has prepared many appellate briefs in the areas of causation on legal malpractice claims, defamation, and insurance coverage. She also has extensive work in civil procedure and evidence. Read Full Bio
Senior Attorney Jason Holder
B.A., University of Virginia; J.D. University of Richmond School of Law. After law school Jason served as a magistrate in Virginia’s 15th Judicial District. As a magistrate, Jason would provide an independent review of complaints of criminal conduct brought by law enforcement and the general public. He would issue various types of processes including arrest warrants, bonds, and search warrants as well as conduct bail hearings for individuals arrested on warrants charging them with a criminal offense. Jason served as a magistrate primarily in the Stafford County and Fredericksburg City Magistrates’ Offices before joining NLRG in June 2016. In 2025, he became a member of NLRG's Management Committee. Read Full Bio
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B.A., University of Virginia, 1980. J.D., University of Detroit School of Law, 1983. Member, Michigan, New York, & Virginia Bars. After clerking for a federal judge in Michigan, Suzanne moved to New York City, where she was an Assistant Corporation Counsel and later a Deputy Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel. She joined NLRG in 1991, specializing in Government Law, Civil Rights, and Criminal Law. She joined NLRG's Management Committee in 2015 and is now NLRG's Co-President .
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Testimonials
"Ms. [Amy] Gore was very responsive and completed the promised assignments way ahead of time. I am very satisfied with her work. Furthermore I have used NLRG services for over several years now and worked with various attorneys and all of them are extremely competent and very responsive."
—Anupa Mukhopadhyay, White Plains, MD
"I was completely satisfied. The report was timely, complete, well-reasoned and well-written... I was especially pleased at the clarity with which Brett Turner summarized my expectations and committed to a deadline and a price, both of which he met."
—Anne W. White, Bethesda, MD
"Jason [Holder] is very responsive and great to work with."
—Russell Bennett, Glen Burnie, MD
"[Suzanne] Bailey is a great writer, and she understood the employment law issues in the case. She was also easy to work with and delivered my brief on time, as promised. I had a positive experience with [Suzanne] and would use NLRG in the future."
—Janice Williams-Jones, Ellicott City, MD
"This service exceeded my expectations, and I don't know how it could be improved."
—Howard J. Needle, Baltimore, MD
