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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.

"Clint" Smith is an honored member of ABOTA (American Board of Trial Advocates), a nationwide invitation-only organization of trial attorneys for both Plaintiffs and Defendants (not for law firms). ABOTA's members are required to have significant experience as lead attorney trying a large number of cases to jury verdict. ABOTA subjects each prospective and current member to a scrupulous, intense, almost year-long local and national vetting process before finalizing the invitation to join. A high premium is placed upon a prospective member's reputation for collegiality and effectiveness in working with his or her opponents in jury trials. ABOTA membership is conditioned on an attorney's nationwide reputation among other attorneys for professional excellence and it includes the top Plaintiff and Defense Trial Lawyers in the country. ABOTA membership is awarded to individuals only, not to law firms.. Clint has also been honored as "Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated" for over a quarter century. ("AV" = "Peer Rated For Highest Level of Professional Excellence") Martindale-Hubbell (Established in 1868) holds itself out as "The most trusted rating system for legal ability and ethical standards." This rating is awarded to individuals only and not to law firms.. Clint has been selected to the national "Super Lawyers List" since 2004.(The "Super Lawyers" List purports to be a list of the most outstanding top 5% of all the lawyers in each state.) This selection is awarded to individuals only and not to law firms.. Clint is also an invited member of "National Trial Lawyers top 100," which is an exclusive invitation-only national trial lawyers organization. This select membership is awarded to individuals only and not to law firms.. He is one of the few practicing lawyers also trained and certified under law as a civil litigation mediator.. Clint Smith has achieved many million dollar, multimillion dollar and tens of million dollar case results in matters involving catastrophic injuries.

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.