Judge Carol Baumerich provides supervision, support, and mentoring guidance to students in Maryland Carey Law’s Mediation Clinic. In January 2025, Judge Baumerich retired after a federal government career as a trial specialist, litigation manager, and federal administrative law judge, most recently serving as a federal administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission.

Judge Baumerich is an accomplished mediator and settlement judge with over two decades of experience in conflict resolution and negotiation in private, court ordered, and public sector mediations. She has experience resolving conflicts between individuals, businesses, and public agencies, employing collaborative problem-solving negotiation techniques. At the Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission, Judge Baumerich frequently served as a settlement judge, mediator. She conducted numerous in-person and virtual voluntary and mandatory settlement conferences to resolve complex, significant cases pending before the commission concerning workplace safety and health issues. This experience included settlement conferences conducted with Spanish/English interpretation and settlement proceedings with self-represented employers. She conducted conferences that involved complex multi-party negotiations including the government, the employer, and the union, the collective bargaining representative of the affected employees. The overwhelming majority of the settlement conferences conducted resulted in an amicable resolution of the dispute obviating the need for litigation and providing a meaningful forward-looking resolution enhancing workplace safety and health. At the settlement conferences, Judge Baumerich successfully employed facilitative mediation techniques, including active listening, identification of shared goals and interests, collaborative problem solving, practical and pragmatic negotiation 2 techniques, and consideration of creative settlement terms to address shared interests. Active participation was encouraged from all conference participants, each party’s counsel, and each party’s principal decision-maker holding full settlement authority.

For a decade, before her appointment as a federal administrative law judge, she managed a solo mediation practice. She served as a court designated civil mediator, mediating civil litigation cases pending before the Circuit Court for Baltimore County and the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. As a court designated civil mediator, she mediated cases in the practice areas of commercial disputes, contracts, workers’ compensation, estates, employment, auto tort, and real estate, among others. She also served as a volunteer mediator in cases pending before several state and federal agencies, including the EEOC, Maryland Commission on Human Relations (currently Maryland Commission on Civil Rights), and the U.S. Government Interagency Program on Sharing Neutrals. As an experienced mediator, for many years, Judge Baumerich provided mediation simulation role-playing critique, during the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc. (MICPEL) Basic Mediation 40 Hour Workshops.

In addition, she has over 25 years of litigation experience in complex, adversarial proceedings. She worked first as a trial specialist and later as a deputy regional attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, Region 5, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her litigation experience includes first chair responsibility in many adversarial proceedings before the NLRB, U.S. District Courts, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. As a trial specialist and deputy regional attorney, she participated in numerous mediation and settlement conferences as counsel for the NLRB general counsel. As deputy regional attorney, her responsibilities included trial training, from pretrial witness preparation to post trial and appellate briefing. She served as second chair for newer attorneys during initial trial assignments.

Judge Baumerich graduated from Rutgers Law School – Newark. While in law school, she served as a staff member and editor on the Rutgers Law Review. She received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from Upsala College, majoring in history.