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Personal Injury Defense: Products
Personal Injury Plaintiff: General
Personal Injury Defense: General
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Blair A. Jones
Blair Jones
Portland
Maine (ME)
Industry Groups:
DRI; ABA (Past Chair Of Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee), Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association (Maine President)
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Blair A. Jones is a member of Germani Martemucci Riggle & Hill, a Portland, Maine, law firm representing a broad range of local, regional and national clients in a variety of practice areas. Blair has nearly 20 years of litigation experience in federal and state courts throughout the country and a particular focus on cases involving product liability, trucking litigation, premises liability, construction litigation, property and liability insurance litigation, and medical malpractice. He is licensed to practice in the state and federal courts of both Maine and New Hampshire, in Massachusetts state courts, and has also been admitted to represent clients in specific cases in several other states nationwide.
Blair is a 1992 graduate of Lewis & Clark Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon, where he received the Robert E. Jones Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. He is a past chair of the Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee of the Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) of the American Bar Association, a past chair and current Maine President of the Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association, and a member of several other professional organizations, including the Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire Bar Associations and the Defense Research Institute.
About Blair Jones
Law School: Lewis & Clark Law School
Admitted: 1996, Maine
Honors and Awards:
- BV Distinguished Peer Review Rating – Martindale Hubbell
- Moot Court Honor Board and Regional Team Member, Lewis & Clark, Northwestern School of Law
- Mock Trial Regional Finalist, Lewis & Clark, Northwestern School of Law, 1991
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Cumberland County Bar Association
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- New Hampshire Bar Association
- Maine Bar Association
- Trucking Law Committee, Defense Research Institute
- Products Liability Committee, Defense Research Institute
- American Association for Justice
- Past Chair of the Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee, ABA/Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section
- U.S. District Court District of New Hampshire
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court New Hampshire
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court District of Maine
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Maine
- Maine
- Chair of the Tri-State Defense Lawyers Association, 2010
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Subsequent Remedial Measures in Products Liability Cases with Spoliation Considerations, For the Defense, December, 2006 (Co-authored with Brett Leland)
- How to Get Evidence Admitted to Court, NBI Seminar presentation, December 13, 2006, Portland, ME
- Evidence and Expert Testimony Best Practices: Supporting Your Case, NBI Seminar Presentation, December 20, 2007, Portland, ME
- Trial Preparation From Start to Finish for Maine Paralegals, Institute for Paralegal Education seminar presentation, Portland, Maine
- Advanced Legal Drafting for the Paralegal, Institute for Paralegal Education seminar presentation, Portland, Maine
- Transportation Megaconference VIII: The Sum of the Parts, ABA/Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee seminar presentation, March 8-9, 2007, New Orleans, LA
- A View From the Trenches: Successful Expert Witness Testimony, seminar presentation, SEAK, Inc., 16th Annual Expert Witness Conference, June 22, 2007, Hyannis, MA
- Transportation Megaconference IX: Technology, Equipment, Brake Testing and Trucking Safety, ABA/Commercial Transportation Litigation Committee seminar presentation, March 5-6, 2009, New Orleans, LA
- Expert Witnesses in Personal Injury Litigation: Winning at Every Stage of the Case, Maine State Bar Association 2011 Summer Meeting, June 17, 2011, Rockport, ME
- Mediation for Trucking Cases: Know Your Audience, ABA Commercial Transportation Committee Newsletter, Winter Edition, 2006
Educational Background:
- Franklin & Marshall College, B.A. in English/Drama, Honors: Dean's List, 1988
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