Halle P. Gray

Ms. Gray is a Member in the Firm’s Labor and Employment Group.

She focuses her practice on labor and employment, general litigation, insurance defense, premises liability, personal injury, and auto tort defense.  Her active trial practice includes all aspects of a civil case including jury and bench trials in the district and circuit courts, participation in mediation, court ordered ADR, oral arguments, discovery, and pleadings.

Prior to joining PK Law, Ms. Gray was an Assistant Public Defender with the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Eastside District Court where she represented indigent clients in criminal matters.  With a caseload of 20-30 cases per daily docket, Ms. Gray was trial counsel in hundreds of contested cases and gained extensive litigation experience.  Prior to this position she was a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Karen C. Friedman of the Baltimore City Circuit Court.

Ms. Gray received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Baltimore School of Law.  While there she was the Associate Editor of the University of Baltimore Law Forum, and served as a Maryland Office of Public Defender Public Interest Fellow and a Rule 19 Student Attorney with the University of Baltimore School of Law Criminal Practice Clinic.  Ms. Gray received her undergraduate degree from Loyola University of Maryland in General Business.

Ms. Gray is active in the community, previously serving on the PIVOT Board where she served her passion to provide disadvantaged women with workforce development programs and housing to reclaim their lives. Most recently, Ms. Gray was named a participant in the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) Ladder Down Program which is a year-long program dedicated to leadership, empowerment, business development, and mentoring for women. The program is comprised of monthly large group training sessions, combined with small group accountability sessions, in the areas of leadership, business development, and mentorship.

Ms. Gray has been named to the Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star list for Employment Litigation Defense since 2026. She recently co-authored, Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law State Q&As for Maryland: Background Check Laws and Drug Testing Laws and the “Independent Contractors” Chapter for the Lexis Nexis 2024 Treatise, Employment Contracts and Agreements: A Guide for Corporate Counsel.