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Ross C. Karsnitz

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Overview

Ross Karsnitz chairs the workers' compensation practice and assists clients with a wide variety of civil litigation including personal injury, workers' compensation, business, and real estate matters in the Georgetown Office. Ross was raised in Sussex County Delaware, and is a second-generation attorney with both his mother and father practicing in Delaware.

During the 2018 and 2019 Legislative Sessions, Ross served as the attorney for the House of Representatives Majority Caucus in the Delaware House of Representatives. He advised the House on legal issues related to legislation, testified on the house floor regarding legislation and assisted in drafting legislation. Ross served as Chief Deputy House Attorney for the House Majority Caucus during the 2019 Legislative Session.

Following his clerkship with the now President Judge of the Superior Court, Ross practiced criminal defense for the Office of Defense Services, rising through the ranks in Family Court, the Court of Common Pleas and Superior Court in Kent County and New Castle County. By the end of his time at the Office of Defense Services, he was litigating first chair on capital murder cases.

Professional Affiliations

Sussex County Superior Court Civil Advisory Committee
Delaware Trial Lawyers Association - Sussex County-at-Large Board of Governor 

Publications

News & Events

Recognition

Honors

Best Lawyers, 2021 - Present

  • One to Watch, Delaware Commercial Litigation and Delaware Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Delaware Today Top Lawyers

  • Personal Injury, 2021 - Present
107 W. Market Street
P.O. Box 690
Georgetown, DE 19947
19339 Coastal Highway
Suite 300
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
850 New Burton Road
Suite 101
Dover, DE 19904
T 302.856.7158
F 302.856.7217

Clerkships

Law Clerk to the Honorable Jan R. Jurden, 2010

Admissions

Delaware, 2010

Education

Widener University Delaware Law School, JD, cum laude, 2010
University of Delaware, BA, 2006

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