Alexandria K. Montanio, Counsel
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Alex is the firm’s Director of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a position she advocated to create in August 2019. In this role, she coordinates and builds upon the firm's existing diversity, equity, inclusion, community engagement and sustainability efforts. She also leverages her combined experience developing the firm’s CSR program and her legal background to assist business leaders in crafting their own policies and programs that are responsive to the dynamic needs of today’s diverse workforce. This includes delivering training sessions on topics including mitigating implicit bias, responding to microaggressions, and supporting caregivers and other groups within the workplace.
Alex has spoken and counseled clients on numerous CSR issues, including:
- Creating an Inclusive Workplace: Reducing Bias and Microaggressions
- Beyond the Policies and Handbook: How To Make Your Workplace Inclusive for Caregivers
Together with Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Community Engagement and Green Team committee members representing all segments of the firm, Alex helps:
- Develop and sustain community partnerships;
- Coordinate programming for the firm’s affinity groups;
- Host the quarterly Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Book Club meetings;
- Champion pro bono and other volunteer opportunities for all firm personnel; and
- Invite various speakers to the firm to broaden our knowledge base.
Alex represents the firm in a variety of philanthropic groups, including the Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Diversity Scholars Program, the Law Firm Sustainability Network and Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service. She has also served as the Head Coach of the Maryland Law Black Law Student Association Alternative Dispute Resolution team since 2016, a competition team that the firm sponsors.
Alex is also Counsel in the firm's Health Care and EMERGE practice groups where she analyzes national and local health care laws and trends and their impact on entities in the health care field, including providers, physician groups and hospitals. She provides Maryland-based insight for a range of clients from national and regional health care entities to individual health care providers forming and growing new practices and companies. Alex has assisted health care companies in navigating new business models, including participating in the Maryland Primary Care Program and launching mobile health care related businesses. Additionally, Alex helps clients proactively navigate compliance issues and manage compliance related disclosures or complaints. She also has experience helping clients navigate every stage of the litigation process in state and federal courts and negotiating disputes.
In the video series titled “Up Close and Personal,” Alex shares what her role as the firm's CSR Director entails, why she enjoys it and her goals for the position.
Honors
Receipient, 2024 Maryland Carey Law Rising Star Award
Named to The Daily Record’s Leading Women, 2023
Named to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America®in Health Care Law since 2021
Selected to Rising Stars of Maryland Super Lawyers® list since 2019
Named to 40 Under 40, Class of 2020, The Baltimore Business Journal
Graduate, Certificate in Corporate Citizenship Practice, Boston College, Carrol School of Management, 2020
Graduate, Community Impact Leadership Institute, a partnership between the United Way of Central Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University's Business and Economics Department, 2020
Recipient, "Leadership in Law" J.D. Award, The Daily Record, 2020
Named to 2020 GameChangers list, Baltimore magazine
Awarded Disability Advocate of the Year from Baltimore County Commission on Disabilities, 2019
Named to VIP List, The Daily Record, 2018
Recipient, Emerging Leaders United Philanthropic Five Award, 2018
News
- Nine Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Listed on 2025 Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America®
- 21 Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Named to 2024 Super Lawyers® List and 14 as Rising Stars
- Ten Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Listed on 2024 Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America®
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Releases COVID-19 Vaccination Regs for Health Care Workers
- Seven Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Listed on 2022 Ones to Watch by Best Lawyers in America®
- 17 Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Named to 2021 Super Lawyers® List and 7 as Rising Stars
- Six Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Listed on 2021 'Ones to Watch' by Best Lawyers in America®
- 22 Gordon Feinblatt Attorneys Named to 2019 Super Lawyers®
- Gordon Feinblatt Forms EMERGE Team
- Gordon Feinblatt and MVLS in the Dundalk Community
Professional and Civic Involvement
Member, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), Advisory Board, 2024
Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Adjunct Professor, 2023
President, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service (MVLS), 2022 - 2024
Member, United Way's Baltimore County Region United Network (RUN), Board of Directors, 2021-2023
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Vice President, 2021; Treasurer, Board of Directors, 2020-2021
Interim Secretary, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Board of Directors, 2020
Appointed Member, Bar Association of Baltimore City, Local Pro Bono Committee, 2019-2023
Member, CCBC Dundalk Foundation, Board of Directors, 2018-2021
Dundalk Renaissance Corporation, President, Board of Directors, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020; Member, Board of Directors, 2017
Business Volunteers Maryland, GIVE Program Member, 2016-2017; GIVE Alumni Committee Member, 2018-2019
Member, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, Board of Directors, 2018
Member, Maryland Notary Work Group, May 2018-November 2018
Baltimore Teacher Supply Swap, President, Board of Directors, 2018; Member, Board of Directors, 2017-2019
Member, Maryland Special Olympics Corporate Plunge, Planning Committee, 2016
Publications and Lectures
- Co-Presenter “Tips for Engaging Young and New Attorneys in Pro Bono Service,” Partners for Justice Conference, May 22, 2024
- Co-Presenter “Empathetic Advocacy: Effective Communication Strategies with Individuals with Developmental Disabilities in Legal Settings,” MSBA Annual Conference 2024
- "Board Anti-Racism Work: Perspectives From an Executive Director and Board President," Management Information Exchange Journal, Aug 17, 2023
- Co-Panelist, "Women's Initiatives and How to Build Out Successful Programs," Executive Women’s Networking Group, Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates, June 7, 2022
- New Part II Rules
- New OIG Compliance Guidelines
- MOBILE Health Care Act
- New MDPCP Tracks
- Amendment to D.C. Ban on Non-Competes
- A Win for 340B Providers
- D.C. Bans Non-Competes
- Gordon Feinblatt’s COVID-19 Information Hub
- Did You Know? - Spring 2022
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Medical Cannabis Q&A for Providers
- Did You Know? - Winter 2021
- HERCs
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Did You Know? - Fall 2021
- Medigap Steering Incentive Allowed
- New Stark and Anti-Kickback Rules: Compensation and Technology
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Maryland Regulatory News
- New Surprise Billing Law Coming in 2022
- New Stark and Anti-Kickback Rules
- Did You Know?
- Webinar for Maryland Physicians: Back to Normal Under New Rules
- Maryland’s Hospital Rates Deliver Savings
- Did You Know? Spring 2021
- New Information Blocking Rule
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Did You Know?
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Green Light for Vertical Mergers
- Corporate Social Responsibility Report
- Hospital Immunity for Data Bank Filings
- Maryland Regulatory News
- Did You Know?
- Medicare Advantage Grants
- Did You Know? Summer 2020
- Webinar for Maryland Physicians: COVID-19 Impacts on Health Care and Selling to Private Equity
- Maryland Regulatory News
- COVID-19 Q & A on Telehealth, Licensing Restrictions, Funding and the CARES Act
- Q&A for Maryland Health Care Providers on Resuming Elective and Non-Urgent Procedures
- Financial Relief for Health Care Providers Impacted by COVID-19
- Maryland Court of Appeals Suspends Statute of Limitations for State Court Case Filings amid Ongoing Pandemic
- Q&A on Maryland’s Most Recent Permanent Changes to Telehealth Laws
- Q&A on the CARES Act’s Impact on Health Care Providers
- Q&A for Maryland Health Care Providers on Regulatory Changes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Medical Transportation Gets a FaceLyft
- Hospital Price Disclosures
- Rural Hospital Monopolies
- New HSCRC Initiatives
- New Medicare Payments for Primary Care
- MOC Programs Under Attack
- Manipulation of Quality Data
- Detailed Q&A for the Maryland Primary Care Program
- Women and Diversity in the Legal Field
- MVLS Celebrate Pro Bono 2018
- Did You Know
- Hospital Affiliates Buying Discounted Drugs
- Maryland Primary Care Program
- Total Cost of Care
- Time to Apply to the New Maryland Primary Care Program!
- Vermont All-Payor System
- Marijuana: Here Come the Feds?
- New Requirements for Informed Consent
- Arbitration Agreements are Green Lighted for Nursing Homes
- Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: Hurricane or Summer Shower?
- Seminar for Maryland Physicians: So, You've Been Audited
- Second Circuit Finds a New Way to Skin a Cat
- CARA’s Assault on Opioid Addiction
- What is Section 1557?
- Medicine 2.0: Have We Gone Too Far?
Teams
Education
J.D.,
magna cum laude,
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law,
2016
B.A.,
Psychology,
with high distinction,
University of Virginia,
2011
B.A.,
English,
with distinction,
University of Virginia,
2011
Bar Admissions
Maryland,
2016