Stacie E. Tobin

Professionals Services Insights Community About Offices Careers

Home / Professionals / Stacie E. Tobin

PDF

setobin@Venable.com

Baltimore, MD

Stacie Tobin, partner-in-charge of Venable's Baltimore office, is a litigator who focuses on commercial and product liability matters. Stacie brings extensive litigation experience spanning a diverse range of matters, and has tried dozens of cases to verdict while serving as first-chair counsel or co-counsel before federal and state courts across the United States. She represents companies, manufacturers, and financial services clients as part of her commercial litigation practice. She has also counseled heavy equipment manufacturers, automobile and watercraft manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and tobacco companies in product liability disputes.

Stacie has wide-ranging experience handling breach of contract claims, particularly those impacting commercial real estate developments and tenancies, consumer credit services, hotel companies, law firm partnerships, and retailer contracts. She litigates securities enforcement and shareholder actions, responds to books and records inspection requests, and provides counsel on enforcement of trademarks and other intellectual property assets. Stacie’s product liability experience encompasses design and manufacturing defects, breach of warranty, and fraud and consumer protection claims. She also manages controversies involving trade secret restrictions, employee restrictive covenants, and limited liability company agreements.

Stacie leads Venable’s Electronic Discovery Task Force and serves on several Venable committees related to attorney recruitment, promotion, and compensation.

Related Practices

Related Industries

Experience

+

Representative Matters

Commercial Litigation

Obtained a preliminary injunction for plaintiff in federal housing discrimination case
Obtained an arbitration award in favor of a major hotel company in a breach of contract and fraud action
Obtained a summary judgment for a university in an educational breach of contract case
Obtained preliminary and permanent injunctions to protect a client’s trademarks against infringement in Maryland
Obtained a summary judgment in Virginia on breach of contract and fraud claims brought by a retailer against a product manufacturer, and on the manufacturer’s counterclaims against the retailer, resulting in a multi-million-dollar verdict in favor of the original defendant
Defended developers and employers against claims for brokerage commissions by realtors in Maryland, North Carolina, and Delaware courts
Represented developers in equitable actions brought in the Court of Chancery in Delaware by a non-U.S. investor in a project in Nevada
Obtained an order of dismissal in favor of a developer who was sued in New York state court for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty
Obtained a favorable judgment from a Virginia court for a financial services client sued over services services provided under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
Obtained a summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff on all claims and counterclaims in an action brought under the Federal Communications Act

Product Liability Litigation

Obtained dismissal for a biosimilar manufacturer in a California trade secrets action
Obtained a defense jury verdict for a heavy equipment manufacturer in a design defect case in a Federal District Court in Texas
Obtained a summary judgment for a personal watercraft manufacturer in a personal injury case brought in Maryland
Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturer in large-scale, nationwide mediations related to the use of diet drugs
Obtained a summary judgment for a cigarette manufacturer in numerous smoking and health cases in California
Played a significant leadership role in one manufacturer’s effort to assess long-term, future litigation risks associated with its products and environmental concerns

Insights

+

Thought Leadership

Events

Credentials

+

Education

J.D. with honors University of Maryland School of Law 1992
B.A. Mount Holyoke College 1989

Bar Admissions

Maryland
Florida

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Clerk Experience

Honorable John F. McAuliffe Court of Appeals of Maryland
Honorable Deborah K. Chasanow U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Professional Memberships and Activities

Member, Board and Executive Committee, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore
Graduate, Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) LEADERship Program, 2016
Board member, LEADERship Program, 2020
Board Member, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law's Board of Visitors

Recognition

+

Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial, Maryland, 2021
Profiles in Diversity Journal, Women Worth Watching in Leadership, 2021
The Daily Record, Maryland’s Top 100 Women, 2019
The Best Lawyers in America, 2013 – 2022
The Best Lawyers Business Edition, Women in Law, Commercial Litigation, 2017 – 2019
Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, Distinguished Women’s Award, 2018

Community

+

Pro Bono

Representation of refugee seeking political asylum
Past successful representation of Virginia death row inmate

Volunteerism

Board member, Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
Campaign cabinet member, United Way of Central Maryland, 2020 - present
Past president, Board of Directors, Special Olympics Maryland, Inc.; founder and co-chair, Board Advisory Council
Past president and member, Board of Directors, Live Baltimore