Miles & Stockbridge is pleased to announce that Vanessa Destime, an associate in the firm’s Commercial & Business Litigation Practice Group, has earned the Chairman’s Award for Leadership Excellence from the National Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division (NBA YLD).

The award honors NBA YLD board members and professionals who exhibit incredible dedication to their communities and who have also assisted the chairman and chief executive officer during the year. Destime served on the board as the director of communications for the 2019-20 board year, during which time Nicholas Austin served as chairman.

“We are so proud of Vanessa for her active involvement in the National Bar Association and her leadership in the Young Lawyers Division,” said Nancy Greene, chairman of Miles & Stockbridge. “She is most deserving of this honor.”

A litigator in the firm’s Baltimore office, Destime represents clients in commercial litigation matters, including business and contract disputes, business tort claims, the defense of financial institutions, corporate and partnership breakups, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Prior to joining Miles & Stockbridge, Vanessa completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Michael W. Reed of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and an internship with the Honorable W. Michel Pierson of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she earned the second highest national score as a competitor on the Mid-Atlantic Thurgood Marshall National Trial Team and was named Best Advocate of the Year in 2016. Vanessa was also an Executive Notes and Comments Editor of the University of Maryland Journal of Health Care Law and Policy and served as a law clerk in the Maryland Office of the Attorney General.

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