Frank Spector is a Baltimore trial lawyer who represents patients and families harmed by medical mistakes, including families bringing a Maryland birth injury claim, and the founder of Frank Spector Law. His practice covers surgical complications, anesthesia errors, misdiagnosis and failure to diagnose, and birth injury, which he calls the toughest work he does. He has practiced for more than thirty-five years, and he is licensed throughout Maryland and in Washington, DC.
He is a third-generation lawyer, with a grandfather, a father, and a mother in the law, and a fourth-generation Baltimorean. He attended the McDonogh School from first grade through twelfth, studied political science at Duke University, and graduated with honors from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where he met his wife, who sat next to him on the first day of class. He first learned the law of personal injury there, in a torts course, and had seen it practiced at home.
After law school Frank joined a Baltimore firm, where a mentor he describes as probably one of the best trial lawyers in Baltimore taught him how to try a case. As a young lawyer he took on a medical malpractice case, found that he liked medicine, and stayed with the work. He later opened his own firm. He is Baltimore based, with a practice centered on Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Harford County, and Howard County, and substantial experience in Montgomery County, Prince George's County, and the District. The firm's Baltimore office is listed online.
Frank also teaches. He served as an adjunct professor at his law school for two or three years, leading a trial advocacy course on how to build a case from the beginning and an externship seminar on practicing law in the real world. He has lectured on trial advocacy and on professional ethics, in Maryland and on nationwide platforms, and keeps current through continuing legal education. His peers have named him to Super Lawyers, a recognition he values because it comes from other lawyers.
That background is the reason for this book. Frank explains Maryland medical malpractice law on Baltimore Malpractice with Frank Spector, the podcast where the conversations behind these chapters were recorded, and on his YouTube channel, TikTok, and Instagram. His reasoning is plain. If a family calls after a deadline has passed, there is nothing he can do, so the rules should be known before anyone needs them.
He describes the firm's mission as guiding families through a process that feels like a foreign country, listening first, and telling people the truth about their case, including when the answer is that there is no case. Families who want to talk through what happened can contact the firm, and the message goes to Frank himself.