About Bruce Godfrey

Bruce has been practicing law in Maryland since December 1994, and focuses primarily on labor law including unemployment and unpaid wage disputes, criminal and motorist defense cases, and tax disputes and collection issues. He is also licensed to practice in the District of Columbia.

A near life-long Marylander, Bruce is an alumnus of Loyola Blakefield, Princeton University and the University of Maryland School of Law. His career has involved representing and assisting an extremely wide variety of clients from homeless residents of East Baltimore to small business owners in the DC and Baltimore suburbs to international industrial corporations in complex, high-profile legal disputes. He is pleased to receive professional referrals from a wide variety of legal and civic organizations, both local and national. Bruce has been active in local online media and politics as a part-time contributor to the Baltimore Examiner and previously on his own long-time political blog “Crablaw.”

Bruce takes an unapologetic position in support of working people; his firm is at all times pro-union, pro-labor and pro-worker, and does not represent management against a labor collective bargaining unit or against workers in unemployment, wrongful termination or civil rights claims.  These commitments by his law practice reflect his own experience as the son of a nurse and a self-employer businessman/craftsman.  Bruce does not represent publicly traded corporations or other businesses except owner-operated small businesses in Maryland, and as noted never in employment disputes.

He is a proud and active father of two boys, Sam and Noah. Sam and Noah have diagnoses of autism and receive special education in the Baltimore County Public Schools. Bruce lives in northwest Baltimore County. In his outside interests, Bruce is a strong advocate for public transit development and cares passionately about the right of individuals to live their own lives in privacy, dignity and peace. He is also a fanatic Ravens fan and almost dares to hope for a winning Orioles season.