JOHN M. TRAN is DiMuroGinsberg's newest partner. Mr. Tran has been practicing law for twenty years, principally as a trial attorney. As a member of the Virginia and Maryland Bar, he has served as lead counsel as well as effective co-counsel in hundreds of trials. His experience reflects a practice rich in its diversity and scope, including the representation of civil litigants in matters ranging from simple contract disputes to complex commercial litigation and the defense of criminal cases.

Mr. Tran's trial experience was shaped by his time spent as a prosecutor. From 1988 to 1993, Mr. Tran served as Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney for the City of Alexandria and was instrumental in the creation of the City's Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force. In 1991, he was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria where he served for two (2) years.

Mr. Tran was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. He is active in the regional chapter of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and served as President throughout the years. He also served on the Virginia State Bar's Council from 1997 to 2003 and is currently a member of the Bar's Special Committee on Lawyer Referral and the Computer Committee. Mr. Tran is an active member of the Alexandria Bar Association and a member of the Arlington Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Mr. Tran received his B.A. degree in 1981 from George Washington University and his J.D. degree from George Washington University National Law Center in 1984. He is admitted to the Bars of Virginia and the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Bar of Maryland and the U.S. District Court of Maryland, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.