Recognized by Washingtonian magazine as one of the leading hospital and professional liability defense attorneys in the Washington region, Nick McConnell has over thirty-five years of courtroom experience, including retention as counsel for the area's major hospitals to defend their most complex, high exposure cases. He has served as lead defense counsel in hundreds of cases involving claims for malpractice, products and premises liability, libel and defamation, antitrust and restraint of trade, employment discrimination, and contract and commercial matters.
A former President, Managing Partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Nick currently chairs Jackson & Campbell’s Health Law Practice Group. He is an elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the nation’s leading peer-reviewed, invitation-only association for attorneys with a substantial number of significant cases tried to jury verdict. Nick has long held an AV® rating from Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest awarded for both competence and ethics. He has served as President of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, the oldest voluntary bar association in our nation’s capital, as well as of The Barristers, and currently serves as President of The Counsellors. Designated by the D.C. Defense Lawyers as The Lawyer of the Year (2005), Nick is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, is a frequent faculty member and lecturer at trial advocacy programs, and serves as President/CEO of The Tucker Foundation, a private foundation focusing its resources on funding for cancer diagnosis, treatment and research in partnership with health care institutions throughout the Metropolitan Region.
Some of Mr. McConnell’s more recent publications and presentations include:
"Medical Malpractice Damages: Causes of Action in Tort and Contract" (chapter) in Proving and Defending Damage Claims: A Fifty-State Guide, Brown, Fleishman (editors), Wolters Kluwer, Publishers (2008 rev.).
Medical Error in the Legal System: A Radical Disconnect (chapter) in Human Error in Medicine (2nd Ed.) (2008) (in press).
“How to Handle the Sympathy Factor in Severe Brain Damage Injury Trials,” Brain Injury Association of America National Seminar, Las Vegas, NV, April 4, 2008, Presenter.
“The ‘New’ D.C. Jury – Practice Pointers for Tort Trials,” D.C. Bar, Litigation Section, Washington, D.C., January 25, 2008, Panelist.
“Civil Practice in the Superior Court: Filing, Prosecuting and Concluding Cases – Getting It Done Right, On Time, Every Time,” The Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., October 30, 2007, Faculty Chair.
A Practitioner’s Handbook: Civil Practice in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Editor and contributing author, Bar Association of the District of Columbia (2004).
HIPAA’s Impact on Physicians, April 16, 2002 (monograph).
Recognitions:
Best Lawyers in America, 1994 – present
Who’s Who in American Law,® 2004 – present
Washington DC Super Lawyers, 2006 – present
Legal Times, Best Lawyers in the Metropolitan Region
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