About Mr. James D.
Mr. James D. Ealley trained in Baltimore. He earned a B.A. in Government and Public Policy from the University of Baltimore in 1995 and completed his J.D. at the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1997. Those early years in Maryland set the stage for a career spent practicing in state and federal forums.
His first legal work came at small firms. In 2000 he joined Bishop, Daneman & Simpson, LLC as an associate. He moved to Goodman, Meagher & Enoch, LLC in 2003, continuing routine litigation and transactional assignments common to local practices. The work built a practical sense of courtroom procedure and client counseling that he carried into later roles.
In 2005 he left private practice to become General Counsel at The Magellan Group, LLC. That in-house post expanded his experience in corporate matters and day-to-day legal management. He returned briefly to firm life in 2010 as an associate at Robert A. Ades & Associates before establishing his own practice the following year.
Since 2011 he has been the owner of The James D. Ealley Law Office. He holds licenses in Maryland and before the Federal Circuit. His professional memberships track a mix of local and subject-specific interests. He has belonged to the Maryland State Bar Association and the Maryland Bankruptcy Bar Association since 2001. He joined the Calvert County Maryland Bar Association in 2011 and the St. Mary’s County Bar Association in 2012. Locally, he serves on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Calvert County Chamber of Commerce, a role he began in 2013 and continues to hold.
Colleagues and clients describe him as steady and practical in handling routine and contested matters. His path—small firms, in-house counsel, back to private practice—has left him comfortable on both transactional and adversarial questions. He appears regularly in Maryland courts and is available for work that requires Federal Circuit admission.
He runs a solo practice that reflects those varied experiences. He concentrates his practice on matters arising in Maryland and in proceedings before the Federal Circuit, including bankruptcy and business-related issues.
