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Neil Sugarman is a founder and principal attorney of Sugarman and Sugarman, P.C. He is recognized throughout Boston and Massachusetts legal communities for his leading experience in the complex areas of products liability, medical malpractice, construction site accidents, admiralty, and personal injury litigation. With more than 40 years of experience, Mr. Sugarman has successfully recovered significant settlements and verdicts in some of the most catastrophic explosion and fire accident cases in the state of Massachusetts.
Prior to founding the firm in 1967, Attorney Neil Sugarman was a Captain in the U.S. Army Signal Corp and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in the Vietnam conflict. In addition to his personal experience in private practice, he has argued leading appellate cases involving the expansion of personal injury law and consumer rights. He is a regular lecturer on complex areas of civil litigation and is a regular contributing writer to various legal publications locally and nationally.
Representative cases include a significant recovery for a sodium explosion in a chemical plant causing injury to 11 firefighters, recovery against a transportation and bus manufacturer following the deaths of four middle school students, a sizeable recovery on appeal on behalf of a catastrophically injured state trooper who was denied coverage, and a major recovery on behalf of a widow and injured co-workers of a Massachusetts transportation company for a defectively designed train horn device.
Mr. Sugarman has held executive and leadership positions with every major legal association in Massachusetts and is on the Advisory Board of the N. Neal Pike Institute on Law and Disability at Boston University School of Law. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, is a past president of the Boston University School of Law Alumni Association, and is a past president of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. He was named as a Top Attorney in Massachusetts and New England, a New England and Massachusetts Super Lawyer 2010 in Boston Magazine and named as the Boston Best Lawyers Product Liability Litigator of the Year 2010.
About Neil Sugarman
Law School: Boston University School of Law
Admitted: 1965, Massachusetts
Professional Webpage: www.sugarman.com/team/Neil%20Sugarman
Honors and Awards:
- "The Best Lawyers in America," 1987 - 2010
- Bronze Star Medal, U.S. Army, Republic of Vietnam, 1965 - 1967
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers, 2006 - 2010
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1997 - 2002
- "Top 10 Massachusetts Super Lawyers," Law and Politics, 2004 - 2010
- ABA-TIPS Pursuit of Justice Award, 2009
- Advocate, American Board of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow, International Society of Barristers
- American ORT Federation Jurisprudence Award, 1993
- Boston University School of Law Silver Shingle Alumni Award, 1993
- "The Best Lawyers in America," Lawyer of the Year, 2010
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Medical Malpractice Committee, Boston Bar Association, 1978 - 1979
- Co-chairman, Boston Bar Association, 1979 - 1980
- Chairman, Boston Bar Association, 1981 - 1982
- Section Council, Civil Litigation Section, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1980 - 1983
- Medical-Legal Liaison Committee, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1984 - 1989
- Chairman, Legislative Committee, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 1991 - 1992
- President, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 1992 - 1993
- Chairman, Public Education Committee, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 1993 - 1994
- Fellow, State Committee Member, American College of Trial Lawyers, 1997 - 2002
- Fellow, Secretary, Massachusetts Bar Foundation, 1979 - 1980
- President, Boston University School of Law Alumni Association, 1997 - 1998
- Executive Committee, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 1993 - 2010
- Member Committees on Trial Practice & Legislation, Massachusetts Bar Association, 1969 - 1977
- Board of Governors, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, 1993 - Present
- Middlesex County Bar Association
- Owen N. Young Society, Boston University School of Law
- Executive Committee, Boston University School of Law
- Advocate, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Advocate, American Association for Justice
- Leaders Forum, American Association for Justice
- Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association
- American Bar Association
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Norfolk Bar Association
- Middlesex Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Massachusetts, 1965
- United States District Court, Massachusetts, 1967
- United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1976
Representative Clients:
- Couple struck by Tractor Trailer
- Craneway collapse at Fore River Shipyard
- Food poisoning at wedding reception
- School Bus Crash
- Sodium Explosion
- Quincy Mutual Fire Ins. Co. v. Quisset Properties, Inc., 69 Mass. App. Ct. 147, 2007
- Nna, et al v. American Standard, Inc., 630 F. Supp. 2d 115, 2009
Educational Background:
- Northeastern University, B.S., 1962
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