Education & Admissions
Activities
- Maryland State Bar Association
- Baltimore City Bar Association
Mark Dimenna
Contact
PRACTICE FOCUS
Mark Dimenna is a trial attorney with extensive first-chair experience. Mr. Dimenna focuses his practice in the areas of commercial and tort litigation, construction, procurement and contract law, general liability, administrative law and government contracts. Having first-chaired numerous trials, Mr. Dimenna has experience with all facets of litigation – pleadings, discovery, motions practice, oral arguments and trial work.
Mr. Dimenna has worked in Baltimore for over a decade and has handled many complex multi-party matters involving construction litigation and other business disputes. His construction practice extends to representing all parties of interest including owners, general contractors, subcontractors and design teams. Mr. Dimenna also has extensive experience representing government owners in administrative settings.
For eight years prior to joining Offit Kurman, Mr. Dimenna worked with the Baltimore City Solicitor’s Office’s Litigation Practice Group. He later practiced law at a boutique construction litigation firm in Baltimore. The combined public and private sector experience gives Mr. Dimenna a unique insight into varied litigation interests, particularly in matters involving the government.
Mr. Dimenna represented the prevailing party in the following reported cases:
- Pizza di Joey, LLC v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 470 Md. 308 (2019); and
- Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Proven Mgmt., 472 Md. 642 (2020).
Additionally, Mr. Dimenna has successfully negotiated favorable outcomes for his clients in multi-million-dollar disputes, including but not limited to the following representative matters:
- Claims totaling $14 million raised against a government owner due to alleged owner-caused delays and design defects relative to a substantial wastewater treatment plant construction project
- A $7.4 million breach of contract claim related to alleged extra work relative to an emergency construction contract
- A $1.4 million differing site conditions claim against a government owner in which the contractor alleged it encountered subsurface site conditions that differed from the contract’s specifications
Mr. Dimenna is a resident of Baltimore City. He is committed to serving his fellow residents by advising and representing small local business owners and protecting the general interests of taxpayers in his role as outside counsel for the City in a number of construction contract disputes. Outside of work, you may find Mr. Dimenna on a stroll in Patterson Park with his wife and their dog.
Skip to content