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David P. Whitman
Michael T. F. Wallor
James T. Murphy
Megan J. Goguen
Sara Fontes
Nicholas R. Mancini
Mary Welsh McBurney
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Mr. Murphy is a graduate of Boston College (B.A. 1971, cum laude) and Suffolk University Law School (J.D. 1975, cum laude). While in law school, he was on the editorial board of the Suffolk University Law Review. Following graduation, he served on active duty as a trial lawyer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Navy. Mr. Murphy has been with the firm since 1979. He has trial, appellate and general counsel experience in a broad spectrum of areas, including personal injury, products liability, employment, contracts and maritime cases and municipal law, zoning, planning and land use regulation. Mr. Murphy represents clients in the defense of serious and complex environmental, toxic tort, psychological injury, admiralty and medical malpractice claims. In addition to his current medical malpractice and personal injury defense litigation work, he recently led a team of Hanson Curran lawyers representing a defendant in The Station fire litigation, a complex tort case involving hundreds of plaintiffs and over 40 defendants. He frequently represents commercial and residential property owners as well s businesses and non-profits in litigation. His experience includes more than 30 jury trials, numerous bench trials and more than a dozen appellate arguments in the state and federal courts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts. He practices in the state and federal courts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Mr. Murphy is a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bar Associations. He is on the board of National Directors of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He also serves with the International Association of Defense Counsel, the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys. He is a proctor member of the Maritime Law Association of the U.S. He is a founder and former president of the Defense Counsel of Rhode Island and former president of the Federal Bar Association chapter for Rhode Island. He served as Rhode Island’s representative to the Defense Research Institute.
Mr. Murphy is AV peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell*. He was selected for inclusion in the New England Super Lawyers list for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 in the civil litigation defense category and in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition. He was also honored with the selection to Litigation Counsel of America. Currently Mr. Murphy serves on the Rhode Island Commission for Judicial Tenure and Discipline. In 2010 – 2011 he was co-chair of the Local Rules Review Committee for the United States District Court. He Frequently lectures to attorneys and claims professionals on matters of interest.
Super Lawyers selects attorneys for its yearly list using a rigorous, multiphase rating process. Up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers.
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