A headshot of Luca Artista.

Luca V. Artista

Associate
Baltimore

Luca Artista is an associate who focuses his practice on real estate finance matters. He is a former summer associate at Ballard Spahr, where he drafted transactional documents for real estate, infrastructure, and finance projects. He also reviewed pleadings and drafted an asylum brief for a pro bono matter in this position.

Prior to joining the firm, Luca gained additional experience through an internship at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland as well as a judicial clerkship at the Supreme Court of Maryland. While attending law school, Luca was a student attorney for the Clinical Law Program at the University of Maryland and served as Editor in Chief of the Maryland Law Review.

Professional Highlights

Judicial Clerkships

Hon. Steven B. Gould, Supreme Court of Maryland, 2023-2024

Judicial Internships

Hon. Richard D. Bennett, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 2022

Hon. Joseph M. Getty, Court of Appeals of Maryland (now the Supreme Court of Maryland), 2021

Publications

Pereida v. Wilkinson: Subjecting Immigrants to an Uphill Climb in Obtaining Relief From Deportation,” 81 Md. L. Rev. 747, 2022

Credentials 

Education

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2023)
Editor in Chief, Maryland Law Review
Law School Alumni Association Award for Leadership, 2023
Teaching Fellow, Academic Achievement Center

Towson University (B.S., cum laude, 2020)
Honors College Graduate
Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society

Admissions

Maryland