RON SHARROW was born and educated in Maryland.     He attended Baltimore City College, The University of Maryland and The University of Baltimore Law School.  His   Baltimore   law  firm  has   represented   clients   in  both  criminal  and civil cases  for  more  than four decades.
        He and his family (wife, Beth and their Maltese, Trinket) divide their time between  their homes in Palm Desert, California  and their Central Park apartment in New York City.
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RON launched his legal career shortly after earning his JD degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law in 1965, and one day after being sworn in as a member of the Maryland Bar.  He established the Law Offices of Ronald M. Sharrow, Chartered, a Maryland professional corporation and opened his office in downtown Baltimore where the firm bearing his name still practices law.  He retired from active practice in 1998.
        He was admitted to practice in the Federal Courts, including The Supreme Court of the United States and all of the Maryland State Courts. In 1976 he was one of the three lawyers in the country who pioneered the concept of legal clinics which championed readily available and affordable legal services from store-front law offices throughout the United States.  By the end of 1977, he had established 20 legal clinic offices in 8 states on the East Coast.
        His involvement in that movement led to a lawsuit which he filed against the Maryland State Bar Association for violation of his First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The organized bar, as it had done for nearly two hundred years, enforced its legislated ban against professional advertising, and refused to grant him permission to advertise the availability of the legal clinics' services. 
        The constitutional issue raised in that case made its way through the Federal Court system and was resolved favorably by the United States Supreme Court in the summer of 1977.  The decision removed the cloak of secrecy that shrouded the practice of all professions in the United States and granted to all professionals the freedom to advertise their services.   Ron Sharrow became the first lawyer to advertise his services on television.      Among his other achievements, he argued the landmark case of Riffey v. Tonder, (36 Md App, 633)  before the Maryland Court of Special Appeals. That case firmly established the appropriate instructions to juries  in medical  malpractice trials concerning a physician's standard of care.
        He also was responsible for a landmark decision in the Maryland Court of Appeals, which for the first time established the right to protect contingent contracts from interference by third parties. (Sharrow v. State Farm Mutual Ins. Co., 306 Md, 633) The case stands to this day as the leading case on that issue.
        In the early years of his career, he handled cases in various fields of law, including business and real estate matters, domestic relations, civil and criminal cases.  Although his personal favorites were the criminal cases, he eventually narrowed the emphasis of his practice to personal injury litigation.  His firm was among the largest personal injury practices in the State of Maryland.  By 1988, it had represented in excess of 12,000 clients.
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AUTHOR  ~  Throughout the years that he was actively engaged in his law practice, Ron kept a journal into which he scribbled notes of the funny things people said to him, the malapropos and the preposterous situations people got themselves into.
        The one thing that he attributes to the maintenance of his sanity was a keen sense of humor which triggered his observation of the humorous side of most situations. It was the humor  he chronicled in that journal which led him to the decision to memorialize these stories in The Full Moon Diary and the series of Bruce West novels. Two have been published; two are written and edited; one is a work in progress.
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                                      SPEAKER
Too many years ago to remember, Mr. Sharrow was an active participant and the president of the Baltimore chapter of Toastmasters International.  His public speaking skills led to his participation in numerous legal seminar series and the lecture series at The University of Baltimore School of Law.  His favorite topic is: Things They Don't Teach You in Law School. He also speaks at the local libraries and book stores during scheduled book signings.
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                                         The Bruce West Novels

The genre of the Bruce West novels is legal humor. Each book involves the courtroom drama of a criminal case with a bizarre twist. The cases, though fictionalized, are based upon actual cases I tried during the course of my legal career. Most of the characters in the books likewise are based upon people who filtered in and out of my life during the years I practiced law.

Every preposterous story related to Bruce by his clients, although fictitious, reflects the true account of a story related to me by my clients and which I memorialized in the journal I religiously maintained throughout the years of my professional career. The stories are related by Bruce who I endowed with the humor I saw in the situations and encounters with my clients.

The humorous exchanges between Bruce and his parent’s that weave a thread through each of the books are truly fiction and do not reflect in any way upon the relationship that I had with my parents. The humorous conflicts, however, are typical of the relationships between many Jewish mothers and their sons. Although they have long departed this earth, I am nevertheless fearful of the retribution that would no doubt be visited upon me by my parents if I did not include this disclaimer.

Bruce West is a thirty-something, divorced, good looking lawyer who is obsessed by the need to win. Winning isn’t everything ... it is the only thing! He acquires a generous supply of clients in the local bars where he hangs out at night. He also manages to attract an abundant supply of loose women as a secondary benefit of his visits to these, as he describes them, iniquitous sink holes.  Each woman he meets is among the most beautiful women he has ever seen and each new sexual experience is the best sex he's ever had.  Bruce generously shares, in graphic detail, the erotic episodes he experiences with these women. Although much of the content of the books is to some extent autobiographical, I must once again, in mortal fear of divine retribution, disclaim any analogy between Bruce’s sexual escapades and my own experience.  To my regret, all of the detailed descriptions of Bruce’s sexual encounters are pure flights of sexual fantasy. I simply described some of the porn from the internet that has been sent to me in anonymous e-mails.

The books are as much fun to read as they were to write. The best comments I have received from readers is that they laughed out loud.


                                                                                                                           

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