About Matthew Zernhelt Of Counsel
Matthew is a co-founder of the Baltimore Action Legal Team (BALT), where he successfully directed many civil rights cases as well as impact litigation on behalf of the community. At BALT, he also directed community legal education and created access to justice programming. Matthew started his litigation career at Maryland Legal Aid providing direct client representation, after being awarded the organization’s public interest fellowship. He worked for Maryland Legal Aid for several more years following his fellowship and then even maintained a pro bono practice with the organization after leaving. Matthew also has extensive experience developing restorative justice programming in Baltimore as the Executive Director of a nonprofit organization. During law school, he clerked for two years with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Matthew went to law school at the University of Baltimore School of Law after studying criminal justice at the University of Maryland.