Dorchester Center Personal Injury Lawyers

I represent businesses throughout New England in matters related to business litigation, construction disputes, mechanic’s lien and bond claims, insurance related disputes, E&O claims, contract drafting and negotiation, and a wide range of general litigation, employment, and personal injury cases.

I have extensive trial experience representing construction companies, homeowners, insurance agents, small business owners, and individuals. I bring a particular strategic insight to construction disputes, construction contract reviews, employment disputes, professional liability claims, coverage remedies and all claims brought by and against general contractors, subcontractors, building owners, property managers, and individuals.

I enjoy working with clients in all aspects of risk...

Victoria Santoro Mair is a skilled trial attorney, handling a variety of different types of cases including pharmaceutical litigation, wrongful death, medical malpractice & sexual assault. Attorney Santoro Mair also regularly handles arbitration, mediation, complex brief-writing & legal arguments & more. Notable results include an eight-figure settlement for a brain-injured young man, a multi-million-dollar verdict against an international hotel chain for the wrongful death drowning of a father of four and recently prevailing in the state’s first entirely remote civil jury trial. Extremely active in the Massachusetts Bar Association, Attorney Santoro Mair currently serves as the MBA Treasurer. She is...

As a founding partner of Sweeney Merrigan Law LLP in Boston, I have years of experience handling all different types of personal injury claims and will get you the compensation you deserve.

I am an experienced attorney serving clients throughout Massachusetts. I am dedicated to helping you get the results you need. At my firm, we offer personalized attention and take a team approach so that no matter who you go with in our firm, the expertise of the whole team weighs in on your case. If you are looking for an attorney who is in your corner and on your side, call today for a free consultation!

Bradley M. Henry is a trial lawyer now at Sweeney Merrigan specializing in wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury and commercial property loss cases. In 2016, the US Supreme Court let stand a $63 million trial verdict and $148.5 million judgment that Henry won with a former law partner, against a global pharmaceutical giant for devastating, life-long adverse drug reactions suffered by a child. See Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-johnson-johnson-idUSKCN0UX1VW; Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson, 471 Mass. 272 (2015),(http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/471/471mass272.html; http://lawyersusaonline.com/reprints). From 2018 through 2022, he served as Co-Liaison and Class Counsel for the plaintiffs in a record-breaking $143 million dollar settlement of the Merrimack...

Attorney Kelly M. Neumann who is originally from Grosse Pointe, Michigan received a dual major in Criminal Justice and Political Science at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan and received her Juris Doctor from the New England School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.

Neumann has worked with Boston City Counsel's Legislation Department, the Trial Division of the Attorney General's Office of Massachusetts and at an Insurance Defense Law firm. She also ran the Tort and Workers Compensation Department at one of the biggest personal injury law firms on the East Coast.

Neumann has successfully settled a personal injury matter for over $9 million,...

Mr. McMorris is a trial lawyer and directs Thornton Law Firm’ workplace injury and health care subrogation practices. He is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars and the American Association for Justice. Mr. McMorris’ trial experience has included several jury verdicts in excess of $1 million dollars in cases involving products liability, construction accidents, toxic exposures, lead paint poisoning, and asbestos exposure. Mr. McMorris is appointed by the federal district court to serve as plaintiff’s liaison counsel in asbestos litigation, and has served in that positions since 1993. He was appointed by the Superior Court of...

Matthieu J. Parenteau is a trial attorney who has focused his career on helping people injured by the negligence of others. He has represented individuals and families for catastrophic injury, motor vehicle collisions, construction accidents, premises liability, negligent security, traumatic brain injury, medical malpractice, product liability, and wrongful death. Attorney Parenteau has recovered resolutions for his clients of $10 million, $5.5 million, $5 million, $1.75 million, $1.675 million, and $1.125 million dollars, among others.

Attorney Parenteau is admitted to practice in both the Federal and State courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Maine. When he is not...

Benjamin R. Novotny is a partner at Sweeney Merrigan Law. He is a devoted Jury Trial Lawyer and has tried more than 95 complex tort cases, almost all being in the field of medical malpractice with the exception of a few catastrophic personal injury claims. To date, he has won well over $200 million in verdicts and settlements. Novotny has won several multi-million dollar verdicts on behalf of his clients including but not limited to: $40+ million verdict (with interest; 2015 largest verdict in MA & 20th in the U.S.)- Larkin v. Johnston – Jury found a physician’s negligence caused a 28-year-old...

Dylan T. Hixson is a trial attorney who utilizes his legal education to help clients collect restitution when injured by the actions of others. Attorney Hixson graduated from Boston University School of Law where he was invited to participate in the Homer Albers Prize Moot Court Competition and was a finalist. After graduation, Attorney Hixson worked at an insurance defense firm in Boston, specializing in litigating claims brought against the clients of various insurance agencies throughout New England, including motor vehicle accidents and slip-and-fall cases. Attorney Hixson now utilizes his knowledge and experience to represent the clients of Sweeney Merrigan....

Scott A. Spencer is an Associate Attorney at the Law Offices of John J. Bonistalli where his practice is primarily focused on litigation of business, bodily injury and real estate matters. His clients include individuals, corporations, condominium associations, developers and public agencies. Prior to joining the firm in 2015 he spent 7 years in the in-house Law Department of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), five of those as trial counsel. In those five years he handled multiple civil litigation matters from responsive pleading, through discovery, dispositive motions, and served as first chair in jury trials and...

In addition to being a partner at Sweeney Merrigan Law LLP in Boston, I have over 12 years of experience from the bench as a retired First Justice in the Orange District Court.

Attorney Richard C. Hyman has over thirty-five years experience assisting clients in need of legal assistance. His focus of practice is in the areas of personal injury (car accidents, slip and fall accidents), workers' compensation and bankruptcy filings (Chapter 7 and Chapter 13).

Ted has practiced in the area of civil litigation for more than 35 years. Ted is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, in which, membership is limited to trial lawyers who have demonstrated exceptional skill in advocacy by achieving a million dollar trial verdict, award or settlement. Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named Ted as one of the Top Ten Lawyers in Massachusetts. The National Trial Lawyers Association selected Ted as one of The Top Trial Lawyers in Massachusetts. Boston Magazine and Law & Politics chose him as a New England "Super Lawyer" in 2004-2009 and 2011-2017. Ted has received...

Adam concentrates his practice in Worker’s Compensation, Social Security Disability, Personal Injury, Employment law, and Automobile accidents.

I started my legal career by working as a judicial law clerk for a judge on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Thereafter I worked as an attorney for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for over eight years. I learned how insurance companies handle claims. I learned how to deal with an insurance company. In 1999, I started the law firm of Bates & Riordan with my partner. The firm focuses on personal injury law and criminal appeals. Our personal injury clients have been in accidents that range from construction site injuries to car accidents. Our criminal appeal involve everything from...

David Strouss concentrates his practice in representing children with catastrophic birth defects as a result of a parent's exposure to chemicals in the workplace. He represents children born with serious birth defects whose parents occupations include semiconductor manufacturing, agriculture, furniture making, industrial manufacturing, and scientific laboratories. Mr. Strouss prosecuted and successfully resolved some of the country’s first cases involving birth defects caused by glycol ethers and other solvent exposures in the semiconductor industry. He currently represents over 150 plaintiffs with birth defects in the United States and South America due to parental occupational and environment exposures. Mr. Strouss has also...

Connor J. Gilbert is an experience Trial Lawyer with his practice focused on complex birth injury, medical malpractice, and personal injury law. As an attorney in America's Largest Injury Law Firm, he represent catastrophically injured clients throughout the United States and is licensed to practice in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire and Kentucky. As a former Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx, New York, he also has significant experience in the field of criminal law, having prosecuted a high volume of misdemeanor and violent felony cases.

Boston injury attorney Erin E. McHugh represents clients in personal injury cases involving: motor vehicle accidents, premise liability, products liability, medical malpractice, bicycle accidents, and dangerous drugs. She is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Connecticut.

Attorney McHugh Graduated from Suffolk University Law School and earned a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College. As a law student, she served on the board of the Suffolk Public Interest Law Group, and was a member of the Lefkowitz Moot Court Team. She also graduated from Suffolk Law with Pro Bono Honors, having completed over...

J. Tucker Merrigan is co-managing partner at Sweeney Merrigan Law, LLP. He started Sweeney Merrigan Law with his brother and fellow co-managing partner, Peter M. Merrigan, in 2010. Since, Sweeney Merrigan Law has become a Massachusetts and National powerhouse in the practice of plaintiff’s litigation. It has been many years since the firm began with its first settlement of $9,500.00 and has evolved to recovering over $30 Million in its most recent litigation. Much of the success attributable to Sweeney Merrigan is a direct product of Attorney Merrigan’s commitment the firm’s reputation as practicing with the highest...

As a founding partner of Crowe & Mulvey, LLP, Elizabeth N. Mulvey has tried over 250 cases in courts throughout New England. Having gained recognition and respect amongst her legal community, Elizabeth has appeared in appellate courts that have resulted in many important decisions in the area of personal injury law. Her hard work and dedication towards her clients has gained her the status as one of the top lawyers in Massachusetts by "Super Lawyers" every year since 2005. Outside of her practice, Elizabeth frequently teaches trial advocacy courses for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Harvard Law School, the National...

Mr. Lesser heads Thornton Law Firm’s False Claims Act / Qui Tam litigation section, representing whistleblowers that report fraud on the Federal and State governments. While practicing in traditional areas of False Claims litigation, including Medicare and Medicaid fraud, Mr. Lesser also handles litigation involving finance and bank fraud. In 2020 Mr. Lesser's client, an FX trader who worked for Bank of New York Mellon, was awarded the then largest individual SEC whistleblower award in the history of SEC whistleblower litigation. The client's almost $50 million dollar award was for providing original information to the Securities and...

Attorney Anthony R. Riccio has quickly developed a reputation in the legal community as an excellent criminal defense attorney and one of the best young lawyers in Massachusetts. He has been selected to the Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers for Criminal Defense from 2016-2021; a distinction awarded to only 2.5 % of attorneys in Massachusetts. As a criminal defense attorney, Attorney Riccio represents individuals charged with felonies and misdemeanors in superior and district court throughout Massachusetts. Attorney Riccio handles cases involving charges of armed robbery, home invasion, drug trafficking, distribution and possession, sexual assault (rape, indecent assault & battery), operating...

Evan Hoffman concentrates his practice areas in complex financial fraud class actions, qui tam, and False Claims Act cases. He has successfully represented private whistleblowers and public pension funds in groundbreaking state and federal multi-district litigation against global custodial banks for foreign exchange fraud. In addition to his class action work, Mr. Hoffman represents and has helped obtain substantial settlements for plaintiffs who have contracted mesothelioma as a result of exposure to asbestos. He is involved in the firm’s Birth Defects and farmworker pesticide litigation practice, working for clients exposed to dangerous and unsafe chemicals. Evan...

Leah McMorris is a partner at Thornton Law Firm LLP in Boston. She has been with the firm since 2005 as a clerk and joined full time as an associate in 2011. Her practice focuses on mesothelioma, toxic exposures, products liability, and catastrophic injury litigation. She has tried several cases in Massachusetts, obtaining significant verdicts and settlements for her clients. A female mesothelioma lawyer, Ms. McMorris represents victims of mesothelioma exposed to asbestos in the workplace, as well as mesothelioma victims exposed to asbestos-contaminated cosmetic talc.

Ms. McMorris earned her Bachelor’s degree from Fairfield University and her Juris Doctor degree from...

Andrea Marino Landry is a partner at Thornton Law Firm LLP. She joined the firm as an associate in 2005 after previously clerking at the firm. During her time at Thornton Law Firm, Ms. Landry has successfully represented clients in a variety of the firm’s practice areas, including mesothelioma and asbestos claims, personal injury litigation, products liability litigation, toxic exposures, including children born with birth defects from their parent's exposure to chemicals in the workplace, and consumer class actions. She represents clients throughout Massachusetts and nationally. She was trial co-counsel for Lydon v. Turner & Newall, a $9.3 million...

Michael P. Thornton is founder and chair of Thornton Law Firm LLP. A nationally recognized expert on toxic tort litigation, Mr. Thornton graduated from Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt Law School. In the 1970’s he successfully undertook the representation of a number of shipyard and construction workers who had developed asbestos-related diseases. Over the years, the firm has grown to become the largest firm in the Northeast representing victims of asbestos and other toxic materials. The firm has brought justice to workers who contracted cancer and other health issues from exposure to chemicals, defective drugs, and defective products, and to...