MISSION
The Law Offices of Gabriel J. Christian & Associates, LLC strives to provide the highest quality legal service, tailored to each client's individual background, needs and goals. We are genuinely concerned about your well-being and aim to nurture a close working relationship with each one of our clients, giving them our fullest possible personal attention.
At The Law Offices of Gabriel J. Christian & Associates, LLC, we're committed to serving the best interests of our clients. This means providing proactive legal representation, as well as compassionate guidance. We understand how stressful it can be to navigate the legal system in the D.C. area, but we also believe that empathetic legal service can make the ordeal far easier to handle.
Our clients thrive, in part, due to our team-oriented approach. We emphasize collaboration and open communication, both of which allow us to provide exceptional service. We're proud of our positive atmosphere and believe that it carries over into our legal efforts — and paves the path to an impressive track record.
With an office conveniently situated in Bowie and service offered to clients throughout Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, we are committed to serving our community. We begin by building strong relationships during initial consultations. From there, we continue on to make our clients feel comfortable and cared for throughout the remainder of the legal process. Get in touch today to discover how you can benefit from our personalized approach to law.
OUR TEAM
Gabriel J. Christian & Associates, LLC is possessed of a highly collaborative culture. Our style is open, service focused, and friendly. We are deeply committed to civic engagement in the communities within which we work, and promote an equal opportunity environment.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Our firm is deeply engaged with the Maryland school system, the religious community, and various African American, African, Latin American, and Caribbean community organizations. Our managing attorney Gabriel J. Christian has been honored to serve the Maryland legal system as a Judicial Commissioner of the Maryland Court of Appeals since he was appointed to that position by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley in 2007.
We serve a diverse community, and believe that such diversity strengthens our nation by drawing the unique contributions of each community into one productive national entity. We believe in an equality of opportunity society where the law serves the best interest of all in the community, not some. We are committed to forging links with other countries and peoples in ways which are mutually beneficial, and further the noblest goals of great national leaders such as President Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King. To that end, our firm promotes the value of civic engagement and volunteerism.
WHY CHOOSE US?
We are not just attorneys, we are trial lawyers. It is true that in reality most cases settle. However, be it personal injury claims involving an insurance company, or a complex family law matter, our colleagues know that we shall aggressively advocate for you and seek the best result. We do not back down. When we take a case, we make no guarantees, but are certain that our efforts will bear fruit. Where we discover that your matter faces challenges, we shall tell you. Our clients over the years trust us because we treat all who come to us, as clients, with compassion, courtesy, and competence while striving for a successful outcome.
HERITAGE
Thomas A. Farrington |1938-1997
The Law Firm of Gabriel J. Christian & Associates, LLC, has its genesis in the Law Partnership of Farrington & Christian. Thomas A. Farrington, was the Senior Partner of Farrington & Christian, who graduated from William & Mary and Yale School of Law. He held several esteemed titles in the legal profession and was a master of the bench. Thomas A. Farrington was a senior litigator and Continuing Legal Education lecturer in Prince George’s County, for approximately thirty (30) years. Gabriel J. Christian shared a relationship with Thomas A. Farrington from his first year at Georgetown University Law Center as a law clerk, then became an associate and later a partner.
During that time, the practice developed a high degree of excellence in law and adherence to the highest standards of the bar. The Firm’s tradition of community involvement aimed at opening doors of the legal profession to those previously under represented within its folds. Thomas A. Farrington is acknowledged as the first white lawyer to join the Prince Georges County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In its later years, the Firm expanded from its original insurance defense base practice, to one firmly rooted in servicing the community’s needs in civil, criminal, domestic, international, and business law. With the untimely passing of Thomas A. Farrington, on July 19, 1997, the Firm transitioned to Gabriel J. Christian & Associates, LLC.
Wendell McKenzie Christian | 1921-2011
The last salute
By Judge Irving Andre
October 17, 2011 9:00 a.m.
Roseau, Dominica (TDN) — Mr. Wendell McKenzie Christian, who was born on March 5, 1921, stood tall throughout his life. He stood tall while growing up in the 1920s in the village of Delices. He stood ramrod straight while clothed in the army fatigues of the British Army, Windward Islands Battalion, "C" Platoon, South Caribbean Forces, where he trained in St. Lucia for a war which ended before he fixed his bayonet on the killing fields in Europe and Africa.
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Wendell served in the second World War.
He later stood proud as he took the oath of office as a police constable in the Dominica Police Force and later as a fireman when he was seconded to the Dominica Fire Service. In 1977, he stood alone, the only fireman on duty in Roseau, as a strike by the Civil Service Association crippled the country. One year later, he stood alone, at least within his family, as the Union Jack was slowly lowered over Dominica and lamented that his countrymen would end up throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Alberta Christian | 1929-2025
Obituary | Tribute
By The Christian Family
February 21, 2025'
Alberta Christian was born on June 12, 1929, in the picturesque village of St. Joseph, Dominica, in the British West Indies. She dedicated her life to serving and advocating for the disabled community. After a long and fulfilling life, Alberta, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, passed away on February 4, 2025, in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Alberta commitment to civic duty, volunteerism, public service, and community development, both on her island of birth and in the United States did not go unnoticed. She was a strong supporter of Rebuild Dominica and donated all the proceeds from the first batch of Chocolat de la Dominique to support relief efforts following Tropical Storm Maria via www.rebuilddominica.org.
Throughout her career, Alberta made significant contributions as the Director of the Dominica Workshop for the Blind, where she played a critical role in improving the lives of the blind and disabled communities through craft industry education and empowerment. Her dedication to this cause was recognized by the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, which awarded her the Meritorious Service Award (MSA) in 1982.
Phillip Louis Ulric Cross | 1917-2013
DSO, DFC, Squadron Leader Royal Air Force (139 Squadron, Bomber Command), Airman, Lawyer, Judge, Diplomat, and friend.
World War II Royal Air Force (RAF) veteran Squadron Leader Phillip Louis Ulric Cross, was born in Port of Spain Trinidad on May 1, 1917. A graduate of the prestigious St. Mary's College in Trinidad, he volunteered to fight German fascism which had by 1941 conquered much of continental Europe. Nurtured on a sense of duty to country and elementary fairness, took a ship to Britain and enrolled in the Royal Air Force in November 1941. During his time in the RAF Cross was decorated on several occasions for bravery in aerial combat - he earned the Distinguished Service Order pinned on him by King George V at Buckingham Place and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He undertook a total of eighty combat missions, twenty of which were over the most heavily defended sectors of the German capital of Berlin. Cross was one of the intrepid ace navigators in the Mosquito Pathfinder Force who laid markers on the particular target ahead of the bombers.
After the war, Cross became the Officer in Charge for Demobilization of Colonial Forces, and an announcer on the BBC. Earlier in the war, he was recorded in "West Indies Calling" a BBC documentary on British West Indians engaged in the war effort.
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After the war Cross graduated as a lawyer from Middle Temple in London. He later served as judge in Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah's government; Ghana's special envoy to President Patrice Lumumba's government in the newly independent Congo in 1961; Attorney General of Cameroon; founder of Tanzania's Industrial Court, and his native Trinidad & Tobago's High Commissioner to London; Cross also served as his country's, ambassador to Germany and France. In later years Cross served as Commonwealth of Nations advisor and was the founder of the philanthropic organization the Cotton Tree Foundation...
George James Christian |1869-1940
George James Christian, born February 23, 1869, to an Antiguan solicitor, Christian received his early schooling in Dominica and at the Mico Training college in Antigua, and spent his early professional life in Dominica as a schoolteacher before been admitted to Gray’s Inn London in 1899 to pursue a law degree.
He graduated from Gray's Inn and called to the bar on June 11, 1902, and subsequently moved to the Gold Coast (current day Ghana), and at the time a British colony. In the coastal town of Sekondi, Christian set up a law office and quickly distinguished himself as an outstanding criminal and concessions lawyer, dealing with concessions for gold mining.
Among his other outstanding achievements in the Gold Coast was the prominent role he played in the opening of the Ashanti region to legal practitioners, serving on the Sekondi Town council, and serving on the (National) Legislative Council of the Gold Coast from 1929 until his death in 1940.
Christian also served as Liberian Consul for thirty years in which he looked after the well-being of Liberian citizens in the Gold Coast, people who were brought in as indentured servants or as government employees in the Sanitary Department.
George J. Christian was the uncle of Henkell, Lemeul, and Wendell Christian. Henkell Christian served as Minister of Education and Health in the Dominica Government. Lemeul Christian a famed Dominican musician and owner of the Christian Music School, wrote the music to the national Anthem of Dominica. Wendell Christian was the father of criminal attorney and author of Back to Eden Gabriel Christian.