Massachusetts Bar Association President-elect Richard P.
Campbell has been named the 2011 Boston Product Liability Litigator
of the Year by Best Lawyers, a peer-review publication
that selects one lawyer for each specialty in each community.
The founder and shareholder of Campbell, Campbell, Edwards &
Conroy PC in Boston, he represents individuals in personal injury
matters, commercial disputes, multi-district litigation, class
actions, aviation disasters, toxic tort and product liability
disputes. In addition, he organizes and leads his firm's pro bono
project, educating parents, students and school administrators
about civil and criminal social host liability laws.
Campbell was awarded Boston College Law School's highest award for
dedication to the law - the Founder's Medal - and was the 2009
recipient of the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
(TIPS) Andrew C. Hecker Memorial Award in recognition for his
leadership, outreach, enthusiasm, professionalism and pride in
TIPS.
He chairs the MBA's Peremptory Challenges Task Force, and is a
trustee and Oliver Wendell Holmes Fellow of the Massachusetts Bar
Foundation, the MBA's philanthropic partner.
Campbell is also a fellow of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, a past chair of the American Bar Association's
34,000-member Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, and a
former chair of the Board of Overseers at Boston College Law
School.
In addition to the "Lawyers of the Year" designation for
high-profile legal specialties in large legal communities, Best
Lawyers compiles its annual list of outstanding attorneys by
conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of lawyers
confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
The 17th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2011) is
based on more than 3.1 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by
other lawyers. To search the complete list of lawyers, visit www.bestlawyers.com.