SCC'S FOUNDER

SCC’s mission and core values reflect the multidisciplinary experience of its founder, John Graham, a practicing lawyer since 1974, who has also served as managing director and general counsel of an international telecommunications company. A member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and the bars of the highest courts of Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia, he has been a partner in private law firms of fewer than 30 to more than 900 lawyers.  Educated in the United States and the United Kingdom, he is a dual citizen of the United States and the British Commonwealth (the Republic of Guyana). His achievements include the following:

Law and Business

• Former managing partner of the Baltimore office of a major national law firm and primary outside counsel to Fortune 500 energy company.
• Corporate director of more than 20 business entities in the United States and abroad.
• Former Chairman of Board of Directors and managing director of $42 million public-private telecommunications joint venture in former Soviet Republic.
• Lead counsel in acquisitions, sales, divestitures, spin-offs and other restructurings, as well as public and private offerings of corporate and municipal securities and syndicated borrowings.
• Counsel for structuring and sale of corporate equity and debt interests and joint ventures in the U.S. and overseas.
• Counsel for clients in protracted disputes and litigation in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels, and before international tribunals.
• AV® peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell®

Alternative Dispute Resolution

• Founding member of American Arbitration Association’s National Energy Panel; current member of AAA National Roster of Neutrals and the AAA Mediator Panel.
• Civil Mediator Maryland Statewide Panels for Business & Technology and Health Care Malpractice cases and for eleven circuit courts in Maryland.
• Resolution Advocate of U.S. Bankruptcy Court and mediator for U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
• Certified arbitrator for National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD)
• Extensive experience as arbitrator, mediator, facilitator, conciliator, neutral case evaluator and civil settlement officer.

Education

• J.D. Yale Law School, Board of Editors, Yale Law Journal.
• B.Phil. University of St. Andrews (Scotland).
• B.A. magna cum laude, Washington & Lee University.

Civic

• Executive committee and former chairman, Living Classrooms Foundation, Baltimore.
• Board of Directors and corporate Secretary, World Trade Center Institute, Baltimore.
• Founding Advisory Board member, Chesapeake Innovation Center, Annapolis.
• ExportMD Board of Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
• Biography included in Marquis Who's Who in America® and Who’s Who in American Law®.