Cynthia Leppert, a principal in the Firm, focuses her practice on business litigation, including contract, real estate, trademark, copyright, employment and other commercial disputes, and bankruptcy litigation. She represents clients in federal and state courts throughout Maryland, and has significant experience in arbitrations and mediations. She is also a trained mediator. She was previously an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission.

Cynthia was named a Maryland Super Lawyer by Law and Politics Magazine each year since the program started -- 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 -- in the area of Business Litigation.  She also was named one of the 25 Top Women Attorneys in Maryland by the same publication in 2009.  Baltimore Smart CEO Magazine named her a Smart Lawyer in the area of Business Litigation in both 2009 and 2010.

In 2006, and again in 2008, Cynthia was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women by The Daily Record.  Established in 1996, this annual award program recognizes one hundred of Maryland's leading women who are making a positive impact on the state.   In 2008, Cynthia was named Baltimore County's Woman of the Year for 2008 by the Baltimore County Commission for Women.  In making its announcement, the Commission stated that Cynthia's "achievements and qualifying criteria for the award include her leadership as President of the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland and experience as an attorney to help advance the interests of women throughout her community and the state."

Cynthia was also a winner of The Daily Record's 2005 "Leadership in Law" awards. This prestigious award is given to only 24 Maryland lawyers and judges in recognition of the efforts they have invested in bettering the legal profession, as well as the communities in which they live and work, and on how they have striven, through mentoring efforts, to promulgate a strong future generation of professional and community leaders.

Cynthia is the Secretary of the Bar Association of Baltimore City, and will become Treasurer of that Association in May 2010.  She is also the Secretary of the Baltimore Bar Foundation.

Formerly President of the Baltimore Women’s Bar Association, Cynthia is a Past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland (WBA), one of the largest statewide bar associations in Maryland. She has held a seat on the WBA's Board of Directors for eleven years, and served from 2000-2004 as Co-Chair of the WBA's Judicial Selections Committee, which interviews and evaluates candidates for judicial appointments throughout Maryland.  In November 2005, Cynthia chaired the Women's Bar Association of Maryland's Rita C. Davidson Award Dinner, which honored United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor at the historic conclusion of her tenure on the Court and was attended by over 500 lawyers and judges. 

Cynthia is also a member of the national Board of the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations, and is an officer of the Women's Bar Foundation of Maryland.  She serves on both the Development Committee and the Editorial Committee of that Foundation's "Finding Justice" Project, which is creating a publication regarding the history of women attorneys in Maryland.  

 Cynthia is a member of the Peer Review Committee of the Attorney Grievance Commission, and the Board of Directors of the Maryland Institute for the Professional Education of Lawyers (MICPEL). Since 2001, she has been on the faculty of the Professionalism Course required for all new admittees to the Maryland Bar.

Cynthia is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Maryland Bar Foundation, the Baltimore Bar Foundation, and Litigation Counsel of America (a trial lawyer honorary society). 

Cynthia is also active in the American Bar Association. She is a member of the Litigation Section (Intellectual Property Committee and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Committee), and is a former co-chair of the Section's Preference and Avoidance Litigation Sub-Committee, which focuses on litigation involving bankrupt corporations. Cynthia presented a paper entitled, "Commercial Landlords' Rights In Bankruptcy" at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association. That paper was later published in the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Litigation Committee's Newsletter. Additionally, she is the author of "Production of Documents and Tangible Things," Civil Discovery Practice in Maryland (1995).  

In 2007, Cynthia completed a five year gubernatorial appointment to the Maryland Commission for Women. She is also a past board member of the Baltimore Chapter of the National Association for Women Business Owners.  She is active in the community, President of her neighborhood homeowner’s association and involved in efforts to preserve the Loch Raven watershed.