For nearly 20 years, Aaron Casagrande’s practice has spanned a broad array of business and commercial matters. His engagements have included the representation of companies, creditors, and trustees with investigations and litigation involving director and officer liability, mismanagement, business fraud, antitrust and false claim act claims and other commercial disputes. Aaron has extensive experience in litigating disputes on behalf of Chapter 7 Trustees and post-confirmation bankruptcy trusts, including the administration and wind-down of bankruptcy estates. He also represents companies, creditors, and trustees in financial restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings, and related litigation. Aaron has advised clients through both civil and criminal governmental investigations.
Aaron has also successfully defended two of Maryland’s largest jurisdictions in multiple pieces of litigation concerning land use and development decisions made by those jurisdictions and resulting claims pursued by landowners in response thereto, including the defense of constitutional takings claims, First Amendment claims, and claims under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
- Bucknell University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2003)
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2006)
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
- United States District Court - District of Maryland
- United States Bankruptcy Court - District of Maryland
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States Court of Appeals - Fourth Circuit
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Maryland State Bar Association
- Member, American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member, Bankruptcy Bar Association for the District of Maryland
- Benchmark Litigation, Maryland "Future Star", 2020-2025; "40 & Under Hot List", 2017–2020; Litigation Star, 2026
- Maryland Super Lawyers®, Baltimore, MD - Bankruptcy: Business "Rising Star", 2010, 2012–2021
- Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Litigation: General Commercial, 2023-2024
- Committee Member, Howard County Adequate Public Facilities Act Review Committee, 2024-2025
- Board Member, Maple Lawn Swim Club, 2024-present
- Board Member, Maple Lawn Homeowner’s Association, Inc., 2015-2023

