Welcome to Leahy & DeSmet, LLC, where our core mission is ensuring that clients receive the highest quality services at affordable rates.  Our experience and our reputation with regard to quality of service, civility and ethics are significant benefits to our clients.  Leahy & DeSmet, LLC has been awarded an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest ranking for competence and ethics in the practice of law. 

Leahy & DeSmet is a woman owned law firm and is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) (Certification # DOT-MBE 09-320).  Our attorneys and staff take a team oriented approach in providing clients with the time, attention, resources and advocacy that they expect and deserve.  Many of our clients hire us to provide general counsel, as we offer a first-class range of services and have exceptional experience with business and government operations at the federal, state and local levels.  We often team with the finest lawyers in the State of Maryland and throughout the region so that our clients receive the best and most cost effective services.

We concentrate our legal practice in civil litigation, administrative law, corporate transactions, state and federal procurement, construction law, intellectual property law that includes patent, trademark and copyright prosecution and licensing, election law, business law, land use,  employment law, contract preparation, and the resolution of commercial disputes in the courts and by alternative dispute resolution procedures such as arbitration and mediation.