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I am the founding partner of Pegalis Law Group,LLC, and one of the nation’s foremost medical malpractice trial lawyers. In more than 50 years practicing law as an advocate for seriously injured victims of negligence, I have obtained some of the highest jury verdicts. I am most proud of providing peace of mind, a sense of justice, and financial security for more than 2,000 clients to date. Our firm develops a personal relationship with each client while seeking the best possible result for their particular situation. It is the team’s truly personal investment in each case that has brought about consistent success on behalf of so many patients, year after year. Stacks of thank-you notes and photos from clients and their families are among my most prized processions. I along with my firm, has worked tirelessly with some two thousand injured individuals and their families. For example: we obtained a $116 million jury verdict for a brain injured child. Some say I literally wrote the book on medical malpractice, as the author of American Law of Medical Malpractice, Volumes 1-3, now in its 3rd edition. I am an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York Law School teaching medical malpractice law, and serve on the school’s Board of Trustees. I am an advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocacy, a Dean of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, a member of the American Association for Justice, and a member of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. I am an Associate in Law of the American College of Legal Medicine, and AV rated on Martindale-Hubbell for professional excellence. I have been voted as one of the Best Lawyers® in New York and one of New York’s Super Lawyers. I have lectured extensively on medical/legal issues, and contributed to numerous articles and publications.

Mention a 45.5 million-dollar verdict, million-dollar settlements, professional and community awards and positions, and Verne Goodsell’s name will readily register.  Concentrating on Insurance Bad Faith, Personal Injury, Birth Trauma, and Medical Malpractice, Verne has a wealth of experience and expertise which has resulted in significant verdicts and settlements.  If you need representation to assist with a catastrophic problem and want the playing field leveled, Verne is prepared to do the job.. Highlights of Verne’s professional accomplishments include President of the State Bar of South Dakota, President of South Dakota Trial Lawyers, President of the Pennington County Bar Association, Board of directors of Christian Life Ministries, Committee Chair of Young Life, Delta Dental of South Dakota Board of Directors, Counsel for the Board of South Dakota Technical Professions.

ROBERT E. PAARZ, Esq., was certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney in 1983, and was re-certified in 1991, 1998, and 2005. In 2010, Mr. Paarz was one of only two lawyers in the entire state of New Jersey to be admitted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, a prestigious national organization into which leading attorneys in the U.S. are admitted by invitation only.. Based on selection by polling other attorneys, Mr. Paarz has consistently been named a "Super Lawyer" in Plaintiff's Medical Malpractice by New Jersey magazine. He is also listed in Best Lawyers, the oldest peer review publication of the legal profession, under the specialty of Medical Malpractice. Best Lawyers compiles lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting peer review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional is rated "AV" by Martindale Hubbell, the highest available rating for legal ability and ethical standards.. Mr. Paarz was formerly a highly successful medical malpractice defense attorney. Between 1976 and 2001, he tried over 250 medical malpractice cases to a verdict, many involving catastrophic injury and death. Mr. Paarz also personally argued more than 10 cases in front of the New Jersey Supreme Court, several of which shaped the law in medical malpractice in New Jersey.. Mr. Paarz decided to end his representation of defendants in medical malpractice cases in 2001. "I had a change of heart in midcareer. I love to try cases and it was very satisfying to exonerate a physician I felt did nothing wrong. But a defense attorney typically must defend whatever cases a malpractice insurance company assigns, and I grew tired of having to defend medical care I personally didn't believe in." Instead, he chose to begin representing patients. "The nice part about plaintiff's work, besides the satisfaction of advocating for a patient's right to quality health care, is that we choose which cases we pursue and will only litigate cases we believe in.". In his very first trial as a plaintiff's attorney in a medical malpractice case, Mr. Paarz obtained a jury verdict in excess of 4 million dollars. Mr. Paarz graduated cum laude (with honors) from both the Georgia Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science) and Rutgers University School of Law (Juris Doctor).

I am currently an associate attorney with Weiss & Paarz, P.C. Prior to joining the firm, I served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Nelson C. Johnson, J.S.C. in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County, Law Division. I graduated from Boston University School of Management with a B.S. in business administration, business law, and finance in May 2010. Thereafter, I attended Widener University School of Law on a full academic merit scholarship. While in law school, I served as the Bluebook Editor of The Widener Law Review and participated in Widener’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. I also participated in Widener’s Environmental & Natural Resources Law Clinic, advocating on behalf of not-for-profit organizations and individuals seeking to protect the local environment. In May 2013, I received my Juris Doctor, with Honors, and a Certificate in Environmental Law. I also received the GreenWatch Institute Scholarship Award in Memory of Jerry Shields, which is awarded annually to a student based on the student’s outstanding performance in the law school’s clinic and a commitment to public interest advocacy.I am a member of the Atlantic County Bar Association, the New Jersey Association for Justice, and the Vincent S. Haneman American Inn of Court. I am also the current Chairperson-Elect of the Atlantic County Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division for the 2014-2015 term.

Russell Berkowitz is widely known as one of the leading medical malpractice attorneys in Connecticut and regularly obtains substantial settlements and verdicts for seriously injured adults and children stemming from birth injuries, brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, cancer misdiagnosis, wrongful death and other life altering injuries.. He is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, voted as one of the Best Lawyers in America in the field of Medical Malpractice by US News and World Reports, a Fellow in the Connecticut Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Medical Malpractice Lawyers. In addition, Russ has been voted as a Super Lawyer by Connecticut Magazine and New England Super Lawyers Magazine in the field of medical malpractice every year since each list has been. Over the last 10 years alone, Russ has obtained more than 50 medical malpractice awards for $1,000, or more for clients. Some of Russ’ recent awards include a $9 million medical malpractice recovery on behalf of an infant who suffered severe brain damage during delivery, $6.1 million medical malpractice settlement on behalf of a client who sustained a spinal cord injury during neck surgery, $5.25 million medical malpractice award on behalf of a client who sustained a stroke following her delivery causing her to sustain permanent paralysis, $5 million medical malpractice payout against a physician who failed to timely diagnose a client’s bacterial infection leading to catastrophic limb-altering injuries,$4.85 million medical malpractice settlement on behalf of an infant who sustained a hypoxic brain injury as a result of a hospital neonatal intensive care unit’s negligent airway management, $4.75 million medical malpractice award on behalf of a child who sustained brain damage as a result of a hospital’s negligent airway management, $4 million medical malpractice verdict against a gynecologist whose negligence during surgery destroyed the plaintiff’s ability to bear children, $3.7 million medical malpractice payout on behalf of a client who died following surgical complications, $3 million medical malpractice recovery on behalf of a child who sustained brain damage following the negligent administration of anesthesia during surgery, $3 million medical malpractice settlement on behalf a newborn who sustained brain damage during. In addition, Russ currently represents hundreds of retired NFL players from all over the country in the highly publicized Brain Concussion Lawsuit which was brought by over 12,000 former players against the NFL in Federal Court in Philadelphia stemming from severe brain injuries they sustained while playing in the NFL.. Russ is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association where he serves on its Board of Governors and Medical Malpractice Committee. Over the years, he has lectured at numerous seminars on a wide range of medical malpractice topics and mediation/arbitration in medical malpractice cases to members of the CTLA. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Connecticut Bar Association, Fairfield County Regional Bar Association, Roscoe Pound Foundation, American Trial Counsel, and Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is the founder and Trustee of Berkowitz and Hanna Charitable Fund which provides grants to non-profit organizations who support adults and children with physical and mental disabilities and women and children at risk. He is also the founder of Across the Globe Children’s Foundation which financially supports underprivileged children in Connecticut and builds homes, schools, libraries and clean water and sanitation systems in impoverished villages throughout Honduras, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Mexico, Bolivia, Ghana, and Laos. If you wish to meet with Russ, contact a committed Connecticut medical malpractice lawyer today.

I am a trial lawyer with 40+ years of experience practicing law in Arizona and more than 40 jury trials in Tucson, Phoenix, Yuma, Bisbee and Nogales under his belt. These trials have mainly involved serious personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death.. I was a civil defense lawyer for many years before making the switch to the plaintiff's side. Since 1998, I have been certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a Specialist in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death, and a long-time member of the State Bar's Commission that vets potential specialists.. I am honored to have been inducted into three organizations recognizing outstanding trial work: the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and the International Society of Barristers. I graduated from the University of Arizona for both undergraduate and law school (B.A., with distinction 1980) (J.D., with distinction 1984) and have been a long-time member of a prestigious trial lawyer organization, the American Board of Trial Advocates and served as a judicial law clerk for Vice-Chief Justice Frank X. Gordon of the Arizona Supreme Court, from 1984 – 1985.