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Andrea has been an associate with Geraghty, O’Loughlin & Kenney since 2008.  Andrea defends healthcare providers and entities in medical malpractice matters in Minnesota and Wisconsin.  She is also experienced in defending healthcare providers before their respective professional licensing boards.  She further defends healthcare providers and entities in Civil Rights actions in federal court.. Additionally, Andrea advises healthcare entities and providers on health, employment, business, premises liability and HIPAA-related legal issues.  Andrea has a special interest in HIPAA; particularly, the HIPAA Security Rule and its implication for legal business associates.. Andrea is a registered nurse, and she worked as a behavioral health nurse prior to becoming an attorney.

I joined SUGARMAN in 2008 following receipt of my law degree from Boston University School of Law, and I became a principal in 2016. I participate in all areas of the firm's personal injury practice, but focus on medical malpractice, general negligence, premises liability, and product liability claims.  I have proudly dedicated my entire career to representing injured people.. I am active in local bar organizations and currently serve on the Board of Governors for the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. I regularly participate in events and programs for law students and undergraduates, and I am currently a 1L mentor for Boston University School of Law. My writing has been published in MCLE’s Massachusetts Tort Law Manual and the MBA Massachusetts Lawyers Journal Section Review.. In addition to legal practice, I have represented clients pro bono through the Women’s Bar Foundation’s Elder Law Project and Family Law Project and I act as the captain of SUGARMAN’s annual Lawyers Have Heart team, raising funds for the American Heart Association.

Steven Schafer has spent his career helping people who have been injured find the justice they deserve. Steve first practiced with a plaintiffs law firm in Groton, Connecticut, where he represented many shipyard workers who had been injured from asbestos and other hazards of the work place. Later, he practiced with a major Boston trial firm where he was responsible for a broad scope of personal injury cases, including product liability cases involving industrial machinery, elevator accident cases, construction site negligence cases, automobile tort cases, and medical malpractice cases. Steve started his own firm in 1985.. Steve is well known in the New England legal community. He has been named by his peers to the last several editions of Woodward and White’s The Best Lawyers in America for his work as a plaintiffs’ medical malpractice and personal injury lawyer. He served as President of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys in 1998-99 and has sat on the Association’s Board of Governors since 1987. Steve also represented Massachusetts as a Governor and a State Delegate to the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America). Steve has testified on Beacon Hill and has appeared in the media on civil justice issues, as an advocate for consumers. He frequently lectures to lawyers on personal injury law, and discovery and trial techniques. He holds a J.D. from Boston College Law School and a B.A. magna cum laude in economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.. Steve grew up on a working dairy farm in Massachusetts, where he learned to work with machinery and to build things, skills that he applies to many of our client’s cases. Today he lives in Dover, Massachusetts, where he is raising his two children. Steve’s late wife, Audrey Cutler, was a labor lawyer and Of Counsel to the firm for several years.

Jessica Gray is a trial attorney, who immediately made a name for herself as a passionate litigator and advocate for her clients. She has achieved six and seven figure resolutions in multiple cases, including wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. Attorney Gray is sought after as an advocate by injured individuals and referring attorneys alike who have come to recognize her special ability to empathize with clients and in being able to communicate movingly to judges, juries, arbitrators and mediators, as well as insurers, that every person has a unique story to be told. Combining her strong presence in the courtroom with her ability to highlight the human element behind every case, she continues to assist her clients every day in achieving justice for the wrongdoings they have suffered.. Attorney Gray handles a wide variety of cases, including wrongful death, catastrophic injuries, motor vehicle collisions, premises liability, construction injuries, products liability, medical malpractice, and more. She has felt at home in the courtroom long before joining Sweeney Merrigan Law. Prior to being a litigator, she had already gained a wealth of litigation experience through several personal injury clerkships, both on the plaintiffs-side and defense. In addition to these clerkships, she also spent considerable time advocating in the courtroom through a litigation-based clinic where she represented clients charged with felonies and misdemeanors in the Boston Municipal Court.. Attorney Gray is an active member in a variety of local and national organizations that focus on protecting the rights of her injured clients and in preserving the civil justice system. She serves as co-chair of the New Lawyers Division of the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys and is also active with the Injury Board, a membership organization comprised of leading trial attorneys throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Attorney Gray is also devoted to continuing her legal education and consistently furthers her legal studies by participating in the American Association for Justice, a national community of trial lawyers seeking to promote justice and fairness for their injured clients by safeguarding victims’ rights and strengthening the civil justice system.. Attorney Gray, who grew up in Carver, Massachusetts, attended Suffolk Law School where she was recognized with two oral argument awards by the faculty. She was also the Note Editor for the Journal of High Technology Law. Her undergraduate degree is from Wheaton College where she majored in Sociology. Her thesis, which studied the relationship between race and capital punishment, was voted by the faculty as the most outstanding in the Department. Attorney Gray grew up an avid horseback rider and dancer. She was also a highly recruited athlete who was awarded All-State Honors in soccer for three consecutive years in High School and also competed all 4 years on Wheaton’s Women’s Varsity Soccer team (ranked top 25 nationally; 4 appearances in the NCAA Tournament). Attorney Gray has a thirst for adventure and loves any opportunity to travel. To date, her favorite place she has traveled to is Africa.

Attorney Sam Wendt is a founding partner at Wendt Law Firm P.C. He has dedicated 100 percent of his career to fighting for the rights of accident victims and their families. Mr. Wendt is well-known throughout Kansas City as well as the entire states of Missouri and Kansas. He has been included in the list of Super Lawyers® on multiple occasions, has been named since 2008 by the Kansas City Business Journal to the “Best of the Bar” list, included in the “Top 40 Under 40” list and the Missouri Top 100 Trial Attorneys by the National Trial Lawyers Association and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, among other honors. He is licensed to practice in Kansas, Missouri and Illinois as well as various U.S. District Courts. To learn more about Attorney Sam Wendt or his law firm, Wendt Law Firm P.C., visit the firm’s website or call today.