team-member

Marykay Canarte

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Licensed for 25 years

Law Degree

Awards

Primary Practice Area

Car Accident

Language

Spanish

About

If you need legal representation anywhere in Maryland, I have over 20 years of experience in legal representation, ADR, and arbitration.  You don’t want to speak to a secretary or paralegal. You want the personal advice of your attorney. Contact me for representation and I will return your calls.  I take personal injury, accident cases, employment cases, DWI, Criminal Traffic, Divorce, Custody, and Child Support cases.Call  (301) 221-5159 or Toll Free (866) 460-4864.See my mediations website atwww.custodyandchildsupportdoneright.com   

Practices Areas

Criminal Defense

Car Accident

Employment and labor

Family

Language

Spanish

Contact

401 East Jefferson St. #208Rockville, MD, 20850

Office: N/A

Website: N/A

Reviews

Jason Arthur Taylor
November 4, 2019

My BMW was being driven southbound on Rockville Pike when a deer started to run across the road. The driver of my car stopped. But, the driver behind her didn't stop, and smashed into my BMW. The other driver (who didn't stop) has an insurance company named USAA. They agreed their driver was at fault. They made me take my car in to their shop, but eventually said it's not worth fixing. They offered to write a check to us, but it was much lower than I think the real value was. I refused the check, and got an appraisal for the value of my BMW (before accident). It was several thousand dollars higher. I took them to small claims court. But, I lost my case, and the Judge sided firmly with USAA, saying that I should have hired an attorney, and that USAA's offer doesn't prove anything. The judge even refused my request for a continuation. This is despite the fact that one was granted because their driver was on vacation and was needed as a witness. I opposed it on solid grounds. The motion itself noted it was opposed by me, yet it was decided against me even before my motion to oppose was needed to be mailed. And it was still granted. Worse, that driver didn't even show up to the trial! I contacted Marykay and she was kind enough to give a free consultation. She knew that judge well, although she said he was usually really reasonable. She demonstrates experience. Also, she was the least expensive attorney I was able to find on the avvo site that was willing to consider taking an appeal from small claims. We need more attorneys like Marykay and I'm thankful she's her to help people who feel that have been victimized. I'm also thankful for the avvo site allowing people to know of her. Jason

Brian
January 30, 2018

I am still a client and I will have no problem with using marykay services she covered everything that was going to happen within the case for the custody battle and she won my case she covered all the grounds I had a very positive interactions with her and she gets the job done

Keisha
January 30, 2018

Represented me at adr n fought a good fight to keep my job but management didn't agree

Amanda
January 29, 2018

Marykay Canarte agreed to take my family matter on pro-bono, through the Maryland Volunteer Legal Service. My child's father had filed a second suit to amend custody. Marykay not only retained custody for me, she was always there to take my phone calls, ease my fears, and to tell me exactly what would happen. She kept my 7 year old son at home with his siblings and I am forever grateful.

John
January 28, 2018

MaryKay is very involved and always puts her clients best interests first. She went above and beyond in my case and was very successful at meeting for my needs!

anonymous
October 17, 2017

I had and auto accident where I hurt my back. I am glad I chose Mary Kay to represent me in my case. She was very professional and caring every step of the way. I had a lot of medical bills for my back treatment that she helped negotiate. She made sure the insurance companies received all the information they needed. When it was time to settle she did an amazing job to help me get a very good settlement for my injuries.

Kelso
February 23, 2010

This attorney represented me when I was an employee with Montgomery County Government when I was fired for being Handicapped. I wrote my final appeal and my firing was overturned. I signed an agreement when I went back to work for the When the county first attempted to fire me for being Handicapped. They tried to say my Physical disability prevented me from doing my job, when the medical doctors stated in their report that my disability was due to injuries that occurred in the line of duty then the county then made new allegations that I was not working up to the standard expected of me as my reports were poorly written and I got lost constantly while traveling across the county which never happened and lacked the documentation And I was offered a job back with the County Government, I signed an agreement with the county that was suppose to put all the accusations made against me in the past as if they never happened. However when I went to retire on disability the county brought up all the previous allegations as if they were proven facts, which was in violation of our written agreement. When the county brought up these unfounded complaints from the years previous, Ms Canarte never made any attempt to dispute any of the county’s prior claims against my ability to do my work, and let them stand. The county said that I could not properly prepare my reports. But I had documentation and examples of my computer designed Reports that were prepared by computer that were grammatically correct and properly prepared in a timely fashion in contradictions to the counties claims. I tried to get Ms. Canarte to prepare for these issues but she refused to take the information and told me that the county would never these things up. I made the mistake of thinking that because Marykay Canarte was my attorney during my first case with the county that she would be a good person to represent me during my appeal with the county when I suffered my back injury as she was familiar with my case. However she seemed to have her own agenda in mind. When I was being questioned by the County Attorney I was thankful that one of the questions that I was afraid that she would ask, she didn’t ask, and to my great disappointment it was one of the first questions that Ms. Canarte asked me. I thought, God you must be one stupid person to ask me that question without knowing to answer to that question. I have learned that when a person suffers a back injury and is operated on, that there will almost always be other injuries that are sub-sequential to the primary injury and are unavoidable as future injuries are emanate. Although this point was made by my medical Doctor, it is one that she failed to bring out in her summation, Which could have been a winning point. When she was asked if she would like to go first or have the county’s attorney go first or would she like to go first she elected to go first, Letting the county attorney rebut everything she said. In the law courses that I taken I have always been told you always elect to go last when given a choice. She put my Medical doctor on the stand first so he was not available to rebut the County case later on. Ms. Canarte should place me on the stand first and then brought in our witnesses is to collaborate my testimony and then the doctor last in order to rebut to county’s case. Also there was a clear discrepancy in the last two medical appointments that occurred at the same time as I never went back to Kaiser after June 2003. I had an appointment for a back treatment at the Rockville Pain Center and on the same date and time I was suppose to be at Kaiser as my doctor was reading an x-ray in his office that was suppose to be mine, that wasn’t and that record still stands. I drove to Ms Canarte office in Montgomery County Md. And hired someone to make the trip with me and when I got there she refused to discuss anything with me. I point out to her that Kaiser had documented my file with a neck injury with X-rays shoeing a cracked vertebra, however there weren’t any supporting

Jason Arthur Taylor
November 4, 2019

My BMW was being driven southbound on Rockville Pike when a deer started to run across the road. The driver of my car stopped. But, the driver behind her didn't stop, and smashed into my BMW. The other driver (who didn't stop) has an insurance company named USAA. They agreed their driver was at fault. They made me take my car in to their shop, but eventually said it's not worth fixing. They offered to write a check to us, but it was much lower than I think the real value was. I refused the check, and got an appraisal for the value of my BMW (before accident). It was several thousand dollars higher. I took them to small claims court. But, I lost my case, and the Judge sided firmly with USAA, saying that I should have hired an attorney, and that USAA's offer doesn't prove anything. The judge even refused my request for a continuation. This is despite the fact that one was granted because their driver was on vacation and was needed as a witness. I opposed it on solid grounds. The motion itself noted it was opposed by me, yet it was decided against me even before my motion to oppose was needed to be mailed. And it was still granted. Worse, that driver didn't even show up to the trial! I contacted Marykay and she was kind enough to give a free consultation. She knew that judge well, although she said he was usually really reasonable. She demonstrates experience. Also, she was the least expensive attorney I was able to find on the avvo site that was willing to consider taking an appeal from small claims. We need more attorneys like Marykay and I'm thankful she's her to help people who feel that have been victimized. I'm also thankful for the avvo site allowing people to know of her. Jason

Brian
January 30, 2018

I am still a client and I will have no problem with using marykay services she covered everything that was going to happen within the case for the custody battle and she won my case she covered all the grounds I had a very positive interactions with her and she gets the job done

Keisha
January 30, 2018

Represented me at adr n fought a good fight to keep my job but management didn't agree

Amanda
January 29, 2018

Marykay Canarte agreed to take my family matter on pro-bono, through the Maryland Volunteer Legal Service. My child's father had filed a second suit to amend custody. Marykay not only retained custody for me, she was always there to take my phone calls, ease my fears, and to tell me exactly what would happen. She kept my 7 year old son at home with his siblings and I am forever grateful.

John
January 28, 2018

MaryKay is very involved and always puts her clients best interests first. She went above and beyond in my case and was very successful at meeting for my needs!

anonymous
October 17, 2017

I had and auto accident where I hurt my back. I am glad I chose Mary Kay to represent me in my case. She was very professional and caring every step of the way. I had a lot of medical bills for my back treatment that she helped negotiate. She made sure the insurance companies received all the information they needed. When it was time to settle she did an amazing job to help me get a very good settlement for my injuries.

Kelso
February 23, 2010

This attorney represented me when I was an employee with Montgomery County Government when I was fired for being Handicapped. I wrote my final appeal and my firing was overturned. I signed an agreement when I went back to work for the When the county first attempted to fire me for being Handicapped. They tried to say my Physical disability prevented me from doing my job, when the medical doctors stated in their report that my disability was due to injuries that occurred in the line of duty then the county then made new allegations that I was not working up to the standard expected of me as my reports were poorly written and I got lost constantly while traveling across the county which never happened and lacked the documentation And I was offered a job back with the County Government, I signed an agreement with the county that was suppose to put all the accusations made against me in the past as if they never happened. However when I went to retire on disability the county brought up all the previous allegations as if they were proven facts, which was in violation of our written agreement. When the county brought up these unfounded complaints from the years previous, Ms Canarte never made any attempt to dispute any of the county’s prior claims against my ability to do my work, and let them stand. The county said that I could not properly prepare my reports. But I had documentation and examples of my computer designed Reports that were prepared by computer that were grammatically correct and properly prepared in a timely fashion in contradictions to the counties claims. I tried to get Ms. Canarte to prepare for these issues but she refused to take the information and told me that the county would never these things up. I made the mistake of thinking that because Marykay Canarte was my attorney during my first case with the county that she would be a good person to represent me during my appeal with the county when I suffered my back injury as she was familiar with my case. However she seemed to have her own agenda in mind. When I was being questioned by the County Attorney I was thankful that one of the questions that I was afraid that she would ask, she didn’t ask, and to my great disappointment it was one of the first questions that Ms. Canarte asked me. I thought, God you must be one stupid person to ask me that question without knowing to answer to that question. I have learned that when a person suffers a back injury and is operated on, that there will almost always be other injuries that are sub-sequential to the primary injury and are unavoidable as future injuries are emanate. Although this point was made by my medical Doctor, it is one that she failed to bring out in her summation, Which could have been a winning point. When she was asked if she would like to go first or have the county’s attorney go first or would she like to go first she elected to go first, Letting the county attorney rebut everything she said. In the law courses that I taken I have always been told you always elect to go last when given a choice. She put my Medical doctor on the stand first so he was not available to rebut the County case later on. Ms. Canarte should place me on the stand first and then brought in our witnesses is to collaborate my testimony and then the doctor last in order to rebut to county’s case. Also there was a clear discrepancy in the last two medical appointments that occurred at the same time as I never went back to Kaiser after June 2003. I had an appointment for a back treatment at the Rockville Pain Center and on the same date and time I was suppose to be at Kaiser as my doctor was reading an x-ray in his office that was suppose to be mine, that wasn’t and that record still stands. I drove to Ms Canarte office in Montgomery County Md. And hired someone to make the trip with me and when I got there she refused to discuss anything with me. I point out to her that Kaiser had documented my file with a neck injury with X-rays shoeing a cracked vertebra, however there weren’t any supporting

Jason Arthur Taylor
November 4, 2019

My BMW was being driven southbound on Rockville Pike when a deer started to run across the road. The driver of my car stopped. But, the driver behind her didn't stop, and smashed into my BMW. The other driver (who didn't stop) has an insurance company named USAA. They agreed their driver was at fault. They made me take my car in to their shop, but eventually said it's not worth fixing. They offered to write a check to us, but it was much lower than I think the real value was. I refused the check, and got an appraisal for the value of my BMW (before accident). It was several thousand dollars higher. I took them to small claims court. But, I lost my case, and the Judge sided firmly with USAA, saying that I should have hired an attorney, and that USAA's offer doesn't prove anything. The judge even refused my request for a continuation. This is despite the fact that one was granted because their driver was on vacation and was needed as a witness. I opposed it on solid grounds. The motion itself noted it was opposed by me, yet it was decided against me even before my motion to oppose was needed to be mailed. And it was still granted. Worse, that driver didn't even show up to the trial! I contacted Marykay and she was kind enough to give a free consultation. She knew that judge well, although she said he was usually really reasonable. She demonstrates experience. Also, she was the least expensive attorney I was able to find on the avvo site that was willing to consider taking an appeal from small claims. We need more attorneys like Marykay and I'm thankful she's her to help people who feel that have been victimized. I'm also thankful for the avvo site allowing people to know of her. Jason

Brian
January 30, 2018

I am still a client and I will have no problem with using marykay services she covered everything that was going to happen within the case for the custody battle and she won my case she covered all the grounds I had a very positive interactions with her and she gets the job done

Keisha
January 30, 2018

Represented me at adr n fought a good fight to keep my job but management didn't agree

Amanda
January 29, 2018

Marykay Canarte agreed to take my family matter on pro-bono, through the Maryland Volunteer Legal Service. My child's father had filed a second suit to amend custody. Marykay not only retained custody for me, she was always there to take my phone calls, ease my fears, and to tell me exactly what would happen. She kept my 7 year old son at home with his siblings and I am forever grateful.

John
January 28, 2018

MaryKay is very involved and always puts her clients best interests first. She went above and beyond in my case and was very successful at meeting for my needs!

anonymous
October 17, 2017

I had and auto accident where I hurt my back. I am glad I chose Mary Kay to represent me in my case. She was very professional and caring every step of the way. I had a lot of medical bills for my back treatment that she helped negotiate. She made sure the insurance companies received all the information they needed. When it was time to settle she did an amazing job to help me get a very good settlement for my injuries.

Kelso
February 23, 2010

This attorney represented me when I was an employee with Montgomery County Government when I was fired for being Handicapped. I wrote my final appeal and my firing was overturned. I signed an agreement when I went back to work for the When the county first attempted to fire me for being Handicapped. They tried to say my Physical disability prevented me from doing my job, when the medical doctors stated in their report that my disability was due to injuries that occurred in the line of duty then the county then made new allegations that I was not working up to the standard expected of me as my reports were poorly written and I got lost constantly while traveling across the county which never happened and lacked the documentation And I was offered a job back with the County Government, I signed an agreement with the county that was suppose to put all the accusations made against me in the past as if they never happened. However when I went to retire on disability the county brought up all the previous allegations as if they were proven facts, which was in violation of our written agreement. When the county brought up these unfounded complaints from the years previous, Ms Canarte never made any attempt to dispute any of the county’s prior claims against my ability to do my work, and let them stand. The county said that I could not properly prepare my reports. But I had documentation and examples of my computer designed Reports that were prepared by computer that were grammatically correct and properly prepared in a timely fashion in contradictions to the counties claims. I tried to get Ms. Canarte to prepare for these issues but she refused to take the information and told me that the county would never these things up. I made the mistake of thinking that because Marykay Canarte was my attorney during my first case with the county that she would be a good person to represent me during my appeal with the county when I suffered my back injury as she was familiar with my case. However she seemed to have her own agenda in mind. When I was being questioned by the County Attorney I was thankful that one of the questions that I was afraid that she would ask, she didn’t ask, and to my great disappointment it was one of the first questions that Ms. Canarte asked me. I thought, God you must be one stupid person to ask me that question without knowing to answer to that question. I have learned that when a person suffers a back injury and is operated on, that there will almost always be other injuries that are sub-sequential to the primary injury and are unavoidable as future injuries are emanate. Although this point was made by my medical Doctor, it is one that she failed to bring out in her summation, Which could have been a winning point. When she was asked if she would like to go first or have the county’s attorney go first or would she like to go first she elected to go first, Letting the county attorney rebut everything she said. In the law courses that I taken I have always been told you always elect to go last when given a choice. She put my Medical doctor on the stand first so he was not available to rebut the County case later on. Ms. Canarte should place me on the stand first and then brought in our witnesses is to collaborate my testimony and then the doctor last in order to rebut to county’s case. Also there was a clear discrepancy in the last two medical appointments that occurred at the same time as I never went back to Kaiser after June 2003. I had an appointment for a back treatment at the Rockville Pain Center and on the same date and time I was suppose to be at Kaiser as my doctor was reading an x-ray in his office that was suppose to be mine, that wasn’t and that record still stands. I drove to Ms Canarte office in Montgomery County Md. And hired someone to make the trip with me and when I got there she refused to discuss anything with me. I point out to her that Kaiser had documented my file with a neck injury with X-rays shoeing a cracked vertebra, however there weren’t any supporting

Jason Arthur Taylor
November 4, 2019

My BMW was being driven southbound on Rockville Pike when a deer started to run across the road. The driver of my car stopped. But, the driver behind her didn't stop, and smashed into my BMW. The other driver (who didn't stop) has an insurance company named USAA. They agreed their driver was at fault. They made me take my car in to their shop, but eventually said it's not worth fixing. They offered to write a check to us, but it was much lower than I think the real value was. I refused the check, and got an appraisal for the value of my BMW (before accident). It was several thousand dollars higher. I took them to small claims court. But, I lost my case, and the Judge sided firmly with USAA, saying that I should have hired an attorney, and that USAA's offer doesn't prove anything. The judge even refused my request for a continuation. This is despite the fact that one was granted because their driver was on vacation and was needed as a witness. I opposed it on solid grounds. The motion itself noted it was opposed by me, yet it was decided against me even before my motion to oppose was needed to be mailed. And it was still granted. Worse, that driver didn't even show up to the trial! I contacted Marykay and she was kind enough to give a free consultation. She knew that judge well, although she said he was usually really reasonable. She demonstrates experience. Also, she was the least expensive attorney I was able to find on the avvo site that was willing to consider taking an appeal from small claims. We need more attorneys like Marykay and I'm thankful she's her to help people who feel that have been victimized. I'm also thankful for the avvo site allowing people to know of her. Jason

Brian
January 30, 2018

I am still a client and I will have no problem with using marykay services she covered everything that was going to happen within the case for the custody battle and she won my case she covered all the grounds I had a very positive interactions with her and she gets the job done

Keisha
January 30, 2018

Represented me at adr n fought a good fight to keep my job but management didn't agree

Amanda
January 29, 2018

Marykay Canarte agreed to take my family matter on pro-bono, through the Maryland Volunteer Legal Service. My child's father had filed a second suit to amend custody. Marykay not only retained custody for me, she was always there to take my phone calls, ease my fears, and to tell me exactly what would happen. She kept my 7 year old son at home with his siblings and I am forever grateful.

John
January 28, 2018

MaryKay is very involved and always puts her clients best interests first. She went above and beyond in my case and was very successful at meeting for my needs!

anonymous
October 17, 2017

I had and auto accident where I hurt my back. I am glad I chose Mary Kay to represent me in my case. She was very professional and caring every step of the way. I had a lot of medical bills for my back treatment that she helped negotiate. She made sure the insurance companies received all the information they needed. When it was time to settle she did an amazing job to help me get a very good settlement for my injuries.

Kelso
February 23, 2010

This attorney represented me when I was an employee with Montgomery County Government when I was fired for being Handicapped. I wrote my final appeal and my firing was overturned. I signed an agreement when I went back to work for the When the county first attempted to fire me for being Handicapped. They tried to say my Physical disability prevented me from doing my job, when the medical doctors stated in their report that my disability was due to injuries that occurred in the line of duty then the county then made new allegations that I was not working up to the standard expected of me as my reports were poorly written and I got lost constantly while traveling across the county which never happened and lacked the documentation And I was offered a job back with the County Government, I signed an agreement with the county that was suppose to put all the accusations made against me in the past as if they never happened. However when I went to retire on disability the county brought up all the previous allegations as if they were proven facts, which was in violation of our written agreement. When the county brought up these unfounded complaints from the years previous, Ms Canarte never made any attempt to dispute any of the county’s prior claims against my ability to do my work, and let them stand. The county said that I could not properly prepare my reports. But I had documentation and examples of my computer designed Reports that were prepared by computer that were grammatically correct and properly prepared in a timely fashion in contradictions to the counties claims. I tried to get Ms. Canarte to prepare for these issues but she refused to take the information and told me that the county would never these things up. I made the mistake of thinking that because Marykay Canarte was my attorney during my first case with the county that she would be a good person to represent me during my appeal with the county when I suffered my back injury as she was familiar with my case. However she seemed to have her own agenda in mind. When I was being questioned by the County Attorney I was thankful that one of the questions that I was afraid that she would ask, she didn’t ask, and to my great disappointment it was one of the first questions that Ms. Canarte asked me. I thought, God you must be one stupid person to ask me that question without knowing to answer to that question. I have learned that when a person suffers a back injury and is operated on, that there will almost always be other injuries that are sub-sequential to the primary injury and are unavoidable as future injuries are emanate. Although this point was made by my medical Doctor, it is one that she failed to bring out in her summation, Which could have been a winning point. When she was asked if she would like to go first or have the county’s attorney go first or would she like to go first she elected to go first, Letting the county attorney rebut everything she said. In the law courses that I taken I have always been told you always elect to go last when given a choice. She put my Medical doctor on the stand first so he was not available to rebut the County case later on. Ms. Canarte should place me on the stand first and then brought in our witnesses is to collaborate my testimony and then the doctor last in order to rebut to county’s case. Also there was a clear discrepancy in the last two medical appointments that occurred at the same time as I never went back to Kaiser after June 2003. I had an appointment for a back treatment at the Rockville Pain Center and on the same date and time I was suppose to be at Kaiser as my doctor was reading an x-ray in his office that was suppose to be mine, that wasn’t and that record still stands. I drove to Ms Canarte office in Montgomery County Md. And hired someone to make the trip with me and when I got there she refused to discuss anything with me. I point out to her that Kaiser had documented my file with a neck injury with X-rays shoeing a cracked vertebra, however there weren’t any supporting