Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison elect Buas partner

(Feb. 3, 2023) The Ocean City law firm Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison announced this week that Peter S. Buas was named a partner in the firm as of January.

Buas is a member of the Ocean City Council, having been the top vote-receiver in the municipal election in 2021.

A native of Worcester County, Buas graduated from Worcester Preparatory School in Berlin in 2009, the University of Maryland, College Parkin 2013) and the University of Baltimore School of Law in 2016. He was admitted to the Maryland Bar in 2016.

For two years, Buas served in the Circuit Court for Worcester County as a law clerk to the Judges Brian D.

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Shockley, Beau H. Oglesby, Mary M. Kent, Richard R. Bloxom and Thomas C. Groton III. He joined Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison in August 2018.

Williams, Moore, Shockley & Harrison is a law firm which was founded in 1952 by Marcus J. Williams in Berlin in 1952, and has offices in Berlin, Ocean Pines and Ocean City.

In addition to serving on the Ocean City Council, Buas chairs Ocean City government’s Police Commission, the Coastal Resources Legislative Committee and the Risk Retention Committee.

He is also a member of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program Board and is a licensed real estate broker. His areas of practice include real estate, landlord-tenant, business law, tax sales, administrative practice including zoning and estate administration.