Admitted
1958, Massachusetts; 1971, District of Columbia
Law School
Boston University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1958; University of Michigan, LL.M., 1960
Law School Graduation Year
1960
College
University of Massachusetts, B.A., with honors, 1955
Memberships
Boston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations; Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1974); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (National Chairman, Continuing Legal Education, 1968-1971); Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.
Biographical
Member, Scribes. Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1957-1958. Recipient, John Ordronaux Prize, Boston University, 1958. Recipient, Boston Aid to the Blind, Man of Vision Award, 1996; Commendation from Governor William Weld, 1995. Research Fellow, Boston University Law Medicine Institute, 1958—. W.C. Cook Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan, 1960. Lecturer in Law, Boston University School of Law, 1961-1963. Associate Editor, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, 1962—. Author: Defective Toys - Demonstrating Manufacturers Disregard For Children's Safety, Trial Magazine, Nov. 1997; Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas Fires and Explosions, 14 American Jurisprudence Trials, 1968; Malpractice Hazards of Spinal Anesthesia, 93 Legal Medicine Annual; Product Liability: The Torch Cases, Case & Comment, Vol. 76 No. 1, 1971; The New Rules of Federal Discovery, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, Vol. 55 No. 4, 1971; Toys That Don't Care, Gambit, Inc., 1971; Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1972; Malpractice from the Viewpoint of the Trial Attorney, The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Co., 1972; Recovery for Product Related Quadriplegia and Paraplegia, Case & Comment, Vol. 77 No. 5, 1972; Hazardous Product Litigation, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1973; Techniques of Direct Examination: Illustrative Testimony in a Flammable Fabrics Case, Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1974; Pre-trial Examination of the Technical Witness in a Product Liability Case, Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1977; Cross-Examination of an Adverse Technical Expert in a Products Liability Case, Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1978; Cross-Examination of Medical Witnesses, Art of Advocacy, Matthew Bender, 1981; You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover, Trial Magazine, November, 1981; Toys-R-Dangerous, Trial Magazine, February, 1982; Winning Strategies in a Product Liability Case, Southern Methodist University Institute on Prod