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Clyde D. Bergstresser is a founder and member of Bergstresser & Pollock LLC. Mr. Bergstresser has more than 35 years experience representing individuals, businesses and families who have suffered serious and devastating harm as the result of professional malpractice, including medical, legal and psychiatric malpractice, property owner negligence or premises liability, sexual assault and other causes of personal injury and death.
Mr. Bergstresser holds an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell , he is an invited fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and he is listed in Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Bergstresser is a graduate of Newark Institute of Technology (B.S., 1971, magna cum laude) where he was President of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society and Boston College Law School (J.D., 1974).He is a frequent lecturer on trial practice, professional liability and other subjects for attorney and physician audiences, and is the author of the chapter in the West Practice series (Basic Law) on medical malpractice. Mr. Bergstresser’s other professional affiliations include the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Association for Justice, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.
*AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell peer review ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards.
About Clyde Bergstresser
Law School: Boston College Law School
Admitted: 1974, Massachusetts
Professional Webpage: www.bergstresser.com/clyde-bergstresser/
Honors and Awards:
- Being invited to be a Fellow of The American College of Trial Attorneys is the single highest honor any trial attorney can receive., Fellow, American College of Trial Attorneys, 2001
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation
- Massachusetts Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA)
- Boston Bar Association
- American Association for Justice
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1974
- Massachusetts, 1974
- Chair, Section Council, Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Massachusetts BarAssociation, 1998
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Guest Speaker, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1994,1998-2000
- Guest Speaker, McLean Hospital, 1985 - 1993
- Guest Speaker, New England Medical Center, 1998
- "Handling The Psychiatric Witness,"(With Lawrence D. Shubow), Trial Magazine, July 1977
- "A Model State Act To Authorize and Regulate Physician Assisted Suicide", (With Charles H. Baron, Dan W. Brock, Garrick F. Cole, Nancy S. Dorfman, Judith A. Johnson, Lowell E. Schnipper, James Vorenberg, and Sidney Wanzer) Harvard Journal on Legislation, Winter, 1996
- "Practicing Psychiatry Without Fear, A Clinical Guide for Liability Prevention", Chapter: The Perspective of the Plaintiff’s Attorney, Harvard University Press
- "Massachusetts Practice", Summary of Basic Law, Third Edition; ed. Alpern and Shubow, West Publishing Company, Chapter on Medical Malpractice, 1996
- "Boston College Law School, Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law, Law Review, Chapter: Torts, 1978-1979
- "Mental Disabilities - The Legal Response" M.C.L.E., N.E.L.I., Chapter: Right to Refuse Treatment
Representative Clients:
- Glicklich v. Spievack, 16 Mass. App. Ct., 485, 1983
- Commonwealth v. Jackson, 369 Mass 904, 1976
- Commonwealth v. Watson, 377 Mass. 814, 1979
- Liberty Mutual v. Tabor, 407 Mass. 354, 1990
- U.S. Liability Ins. Co. v. Selman, 70 F.3d 684, 1st Cir. 1995
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