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Michael S. Appel

Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 2012.
101 Merrimac Street, Suite 900 Boston, Massachusetts 02114
(617) 227-3030
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Firm: Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.
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Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.


Years In Practice


Phone Number (617) 227-3030

Michael has achieved excellent results for his clients in catastrophic personal injury matters. He is widely recognized as one of the nation’s top mass-tort lawyers, based on his work pursuing cases against the drug and medical-device industry. Michael has played a leading role in the following national litigation matters:

  • He has served as co-lead coordinating counsel for the plaintiffs in national litigation against Fresenius, the manufacturer of GranuFlo, a defective product used during dialysis.
  • He has served on the plaintiffs’ executive committee in litigation involving transvaginal surgical mesh implants.
  • He was plaintiffs’ lead coordinating counsel in Massachusetts diet-drug litigation, in which he helped to obtain settlements for over 2,300 individuals injured by the Fen-Phen and Redux diet drugs.
  • He was plaintiffs’ co-liaison counsel in litigation involving Taxus surgical stents, which were favorably settled.

Michael has had similar success handling matters involving medical malpractice, premises liability, workplace injury, and motor-vehicle accidents. He has successfully negotiated favorable resolutions of such cases, including a $4 million settlement on behalf of a child who sustained a traumatic brain injury in a bus accident, a $6 million settlement for law-enforcement officers in a nationwide class-action suit against the maker of material used in body armor, and a $4.5 million settlement on behalf of the parents of a college student who was murdered in her off-campus apartment.

Michael lectures frequently on issues of trial practice and mass torts at various legal-education and bar-association seminars.

Recognition:

  • American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
  • The Best Lawyers in America (Personal Injury Litigation and Mass Tort/Class Actions), 2012-2022
  • The Best Lawyers in America “Lawyer of the Year,” Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action-Plaintiffs, 2017
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers (Personal Injury Plaintiff: Medical Malpractice), 2007-2021
  • Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell 
  • Benchmark Litigation Litigation Star (Plaintiff), Massachusetts, 2013-2021
  • Benchmark Appellate First Circuit Litigation Star, Massachusetts, 2013

Memberships:

  • Boston Bar Association (former Chair, Tort Committee)
  • American Association for Justice (formerly known as Association of Trial Lawyers of America)
  • Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys

Admissions:

  • Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
     
What legal services does this lawyer offer?
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Awards
Lawyer of the Year recognition for Michael S. Appel
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Boston (2017)
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Office: (617) 227-3030
101 Merrimac Street, Suite 900
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
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