Mr. Genn focuses his practice on representing corporate and individual clients before federal, state, and local legislative and regulatory bodies as well as in the courts.

His areas of representation include, among others, appropriations, transportation, procurement, telecommunications, wireless telephony, energy and utility restructuring, PSC regulation, corporate law, labor, health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, biometrics, criminal law and security issues, municipal matters, environmental law, education, product liability, election law, intellectual property rights, copyright and trademarks, software licensing, and Internet law emphasizing First Amendment, encryption, privacy, taxation and gambling (gaming) issues. Mr. Genn's clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as “incubator” firms and those seeking venture capital.

Mr. Genn represented the 16th Legislative District in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1986 until 1998 when he voluntarily decided not to seek re-election to return to the private sector. Upon Mr. Genn's departure from the Legislature, the local paper said, “Montgomery County (Maryland's largest county with 895,000 residents) loses perhaps its most passionate and aggressive lawmaker.”

Mr. Genn authored dozens of legislative initiatives, now law. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) noted some as successful first-in-the-nation efforts. They include first state statute in 1988 to allow for the admissibility of DNA evidence in criminal matters; and the requirement for the police to report all moving motor vehicle violations, including fatalities, committed by Diplomats entitled to Diplomatic Immunity, to the U.S. Department of State for sanctions, among many others.

During his term, Mr. Genn was Chair of the House Judiciary Criminal Justice Subcommittee and served 8 years together with then Delegate, now Governor Bob Ehrlich, on the House Judiciary Committee, and 8 years with Governor Ehrlich's Chief Legislative Officer, Delegate Ken Masters, 4 years with the Governor's Policy Director, Delegate Joe Getty and the Superintendent of the State Police, Delegate Tim Hutchins, all on Judiciary. In addition, Mr. Genn's colleagues from his 16th Legislative District are former Delegate Nancy Kopp, the current State Treasurer and one of three votes on the State Board of Public Works voting on State Investments and Contracts and Senator Brian Frosh, Chairman of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee.

Through Mr. Genn's procurement expertise, his client, Diebold Election Systems, Inc., secured the largest touch screen voting contract in the U.S. to date --- a $56 Million contract for the entire State of Maryland for the 2004 Election with option years.

Mr. Genn's wide-ranging experience includes extensive trial and appellate advocacy. He was successful criminal defense trial counsel in one of the most sensational double murder cases in the Washington suburbs in the 1990's resulting in a full jury acquittal of an Armenian shop owner.

Mr. Genn also represented an African-American federal government employee who was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned and charged with robbery and attempted murder. The result was the largest jury verdict in the U.S. District Court of Maryland on a single count of violating an innocent person's constitutional rights. He also obtained a unanimous reversal from Maryland's highest court declaring Maryland's statutory law, which permitted the judge and state to deny a defendant a jury trial right in the first instance, as unconstitutional and in violation of everyone's fundamental right to a jury trial.

Mr. Genn has been successfully involved in administrative and regulatory actions at the EPA and represented the General Contractor in receiving a substantial judgment against the GSA during the construction of a federal office building. Mr. Genn's experience also includes estates, trusts, Health Care Powers of Attorney and Advance Medical Directives and he has successfully litigated product liability and personal injury cases.

Mr. Genn has also received numerous awards for his legislative and community service, including being honored at a White House ceremony and receiving the “1995 Legislator of the Year” award by the National Commission Against Drunk Driving (formerly the President's Commission Against Drunk Driving). Since 1991, Mr. Genn has served as an Executive Board member of the Maryland Chapter of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Mr. Genn also served as Legislative Aide to U.S. Senator Birch Bayh (1974-75).

Mr. Genn has received Martindale Hubbell's highest attorney rating, “AV.” Mr. Genn is a member of the D.C. Bar, Maryland State Bar and the U.S. District Courts and Federal Circuit Courts for D. C. and Maryland.

Mr. Genn received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Duke University in 1974 and his J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School in 1978, receiving the Dean's Award for Exceptional Achievement and Service. Mr. Genn was the Editor-in-Chief of the International Law Journal in 1978 and the author of, “Post-War Law Providing for Restitution of Identifiable Property Seized by Nazi Government,” ILJ, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1977).