Muriel van den Berg

Muriel van den Berg

Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland

Panelist, Understanding How Estate Planning Can Benefit Lower Income Clients

Muriel van den Berg has been a staff attorney with the Pro Bono Resource Center’s Home Preservation Project since 2023. She previously worked for five years as a staff attorney with the Bar Association of Baltimore City’s Senior Legal Services program. She provides estate planning services, tangled title advice, mortgage foreclosure and tax sale counseling, and related assistance to homeowners of low and modest income in Baltimore City and beyond. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Before beginning her work in public interest law, she clerked for the Honorable Beth P. Gesner, U.S. Magistrate Judge (Ret.) of the U.S. District Court in Baltimore and worked as an associate in the litigation department of Venable LLP. She is committed to helping vulnerable homeowners make well-informed plans and decisions to address challenges to their homeownership and protect the financial and family legacy their homes represent.