Gary A. Wais

Gary is the senior founding partner of Wais, Vogelstein, Forman, Koch & Norman.

For over 40 years he has dedicated his practice to representing the most seriously injured victims of medical malpractice, with a focus on cases involving birth injuries, cerebral palsy, spine and brain injuries and wrongful death. Mr. Wais has obtained and continues to achieve record-setting verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. 

Mr. Wais has personally handled and resolved either by verdict or settlement numerous cases in excess of $10,000,000.00. A representative sample of newspaper headlines reporting solely on jury verdicts include the following:

• “Jury awards $55 Million for birth injury” – The Daily Record
• “Jury awards $21 Million for birth injury” – The Daily Record
• “Widow wins $14 Million” – The Baltimore Sun
• “UM Medical Center to pay $6.9 Million for negligence” – The Baltimore Sun
• ”Malpractice suit Plaintiff is awarded $4.4 Million” – The Baltimore Sun
• “Jury awards parents $4.0 Million” – The Daily Record

In Gary’s 40+ years of practice, besides jury verdicts, he has also settled hundreds of serious medical malpractice cases involving birth injuries and other medical malpractice matters. These other cases involved emergency room failures, failure to diagnose and/or properly treat cancer, heart issues, stroke, amputation, and death cases.

Besides medical malpractice, Mr. Wais has also represented victims of legal malpractice, including participating in a jury trial that resulted in a $12,000,000.00 verdict for the parents of a teen who died as a result of an anesthesia mishap. The family went to a lawyer to represent them for this tragedy and that lawyer negligently allowed the medical malpractice case to be dismissed.

Mr. Wais has likewise successfully represented victims of drowning accidents and obtained a jury verdict of $4,000,000.00 and a settlement for another client in excess of $5 million dollars.

As a result of Mr. Wais’ experience and success, he has been asked and has presented seminars and lectures on the subject of medical malpractice to fellow medical malpractice lawyers in Maryland.

Nationwide Practice

While Mr. Wais is licensed to practice law in the State of Maryland, he has tried cases in numerous states throughout the country.