- Wrongful DeathChris Corradetti is an investigator and researcher at Thornton Law Firm. Prior to joining the firm, he was an investigator and researcher working on insurance defense, corporate fraud and wrongful death cases. Chris started working at Thornton Law Firm in 2002 as a paralegal. He presently works on mesothelioma and asbestos cases scheduled for trial. This includes locating and speaking with witnesses, corporate archeology and liability research, and the review and analysis of corporate, naval, marine and construction documents. He is a graduate of West Virginia University (BA, 1996).
- FraudBrian Freer is a partner at Thornton Law Firm and was previously employed as an associate and law clerk with the Firm. He graduated from Villanova University (B.S. Finance, 2008, cum laude) and New York Law School (J.D. 2011). Mr. Freer is admitted to the Massachusetts and New York bars. He concentrates his practice in the Firm’s personal injury, products liability, financial and insurance fraud areas, as well as asbestos and mesothelioma claims.
- Workers CompensationClients trust us to help hold responsible parties accountable. We aggressively pursue medical benefits, past and future lost wages, workers compensation benefits, pain and suffering damages, and coverage of other expenses.
- Employment DiscriminationPatricia Flannery is a graduate magna cum laude of Boston College (1979) and the Northeastern University School of Law (1988). She is admitted to the Massachusetts Bar and the United States District Court for Massachusetts, as well as to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Ms. Flannery worked for the firm before attending law school and joined the firm as a partner in 1996. She has worked in the firm’s asbestos practice and tried cases in a number of other areas. She was lead trial counsel in Ortiz del-Valle v. NBA, winning a $7.85 million award for sex discrimination in favor of a female referee passed over for hiring by the National Basketball Association. She currently oversees the firm’s external communications.
- Property DamageHe heads the firm’s birth defect litigation involving catastrophic birth defects from parental exposure in occupations such as semiconductor manufacturing and agriculture. Mr Strouss prosecuted and successfully resolved some of the country’s first cases involving birth defects caused by glycol ethers and other solvent exposures in the semiconductor industry. He currently represents over 150 plaintiffs with birth defects in the United States and South America due to parental occupational and environment exposures. Mr. Strouss has also litigated cases involving cancer arising from exposure to benzene, solvents and other hazardous chemicals, environmental property damage cases and pharmaceutical drug and medical device cases including Fen-Phen and Vioxx.
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- Auto Accidents
- Estate PlanningAllison is a paralegal at Thornton Law Firm. She joined the firm in 1987 as an administrative assistant to asbestos paralegals. From 1988 to 1997, she worked as an asbestos paralegal doing new client intake, product investigation, defendant company research, and trial preparation. From 1998 to 2006, she was a paralegal and worked on personal injury cases, including construction & jobsite accidents, product liability, and motor vehicle accidents. Since 2007, Allison works as an asbestos paralegal assisting clients with coordinating estate administration, and assists the paralegal manager with coordinating asbestos cases. She is also paralegal to attorney Marnie McGoldrick, working on pharmaceutical drug and medical device litigation. She is a graduate of Boston University (BA Psychology, 1986) and Northeastern University (Certificate, Paralegal Professional Program, 1987)