Christopher D. Mudd

Representative Matters

• Assisted a Baltimore-area institution in obtaining a special exception and related development approvals for a proposed use in rural Baltimore County that garnered significant community opposition; assisted in writing briefs to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and the Maryland Court of Appeals, and ultimately obtained a ruling affirming the grant of the special exception and development approvals in a reported opinion that has become the precedent for special exception law in Maryland
• Assisted a Baltimore County institution with a multifaceted defense of numerous development-related approvals before the hearing officer of Baltimore County, the Board of Appeals, the Circuit Court, the Court of Special Appeals, and the Court of Appeals
• Assisted a commercial developer in obtaining entitlements for a fuel service station project in Baltimore County, and defended against appeals in the Circuit Court and Court of Special Appeals by a competitor station

Education

• J.D. Villanova University School of Law 2004
• • Managing Editor of Student Works, Villanova Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
• B.A. University of Notre Dame 2001

Bar Admissions

• Maryland

Clerk Experience

• Honorable J. Norris Byrnes Circuit Court for Baltimore County

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Member, American Bar Association
• Member and former chair, Baltimore County Bar Association; State, Local Laws & Zoning Committee
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association

• The Best Lawyers in America 
  • Land Use and Zoning Law, 2023 – 2025
  • Litigation - Real Estate, 2023 – 2025
  • Lawyer of the Year, Litigation – Real Estate, Baltimore, 2025
• Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, Maryland, 2012 – 2018