Rachel Marblestone Kamins
Principal

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Practice Areas

Criminal Defense Litigation and Appeal

Practice Focus

Ms. Kamins represents criminal defendants at every stage of the criminal process in state and federal courts. Her practice areas include state and federal appeals, state and federal post conviction proceedings, federal habeas corpus actions, sentence modifications and correction of illegal sentences.  Additionally, she handles drug and alcohol treatment proceedings, violations of probation, parole matters, misdemeanor and felony trials, and grand jury investigations.

Education

B.A., Brandeis University, 1989.
J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1992.

Bar and Court Admissions

State of Maryland
United District Court for the District of Maryland
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit   
Supreme Court of the United States

Points of Distinction

Acknowledged by her peers for her outstanding professional achievements, Ms. Kamins has been named a Maryland Super Lawyer in 2010 and 2012 and a Washington D.C. Super Lawyer in 2010; Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.  She also served as Chair of the Maryland State Bar Association Criminal Law and Practice Section Council from 2009-2010.

Activities

In addition to serving on the Council of the Maryland State Bar Association Criminal Law and Practice Section, Ms. Kamins is also an active member of the Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys Association.

Publications/Speeches

Lecturing on various criminal law topics, Ms. Kamins speaks to prosecutors, judges, and police officers throughout the state.

• On April 29, 2010, Ms. Kamins made presentations at the Legal Awareness Seminar at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, MD;
• In December 2009, Ms. Kamins made presentations at the Legal Awareness Seminar at Jessup Correctional Institution in Jessup, MD;
• On May 30, 2009, Ms. Kamins made presentations at the Legal Awareness Seminar at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown, Maryland;
• On February 7, 2009, Ms. Kamins made presentations at the Legal Awareness Seminar at the Maryland Correctional Institution—Hagerstown, in Hagerstown, Maryland;
• In January 2009, Ms. Kamins made presentations at the Legal Awareness Seminar at the Jessup Correctional Institution in Jessup, Maryland;

She also has drafted legislation and has testified before the Maryland General Assembly on a number of bills relating to the practice of criminal law.

Previous Work

Ms. Kamins’ career consists of a nearly two-decade, diverse criminal practice. After law school, Ms. Kamins spent a year as a judicial law clerk overseeing a criminal trial docket.  In 1993, Ms. Kamins joined the Office of the Attorney General's Criminal Appeals Division, where she represented the State in all types of criminal appeals in the Court of Special Appeals, the Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.  She also handled federal habeas corpus cases in the United States District Court and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.  In 2004, Ms. Kamins went into private practice where she represented criminal defendants in state and federal criminal appeals, post conviction and coram nobis cases, sentence modifications, a wide variety of post-trial and post-sentencing motions, federal habeas corpus cases, probation and parole matters, and some district and circuit court trials in Maryland and the District of Columbia

Contact Info:
Email:	rkamins@offitkurman.com
Office Phone:	301.575.0395
Fax Phone:	301.575.0335
Mailing Address:	8171 Maple Lawn Blvd. Suite 200 Maple Lawn, MD 20759