Mr. McLaughlin focuses his practice on product liability, medical malpractice, personal injury and wrongful death, birth trauma, automobile and truck collisions, and cases involving chemical exposure. Mr. McLaughlin has successfully tried over 100 cases to verdict in state and federal courts in more than 30 states. For more than a decade he has been at the forefront of product liability litigation involving electric blanket fires, having recently obtained a jury verdict of $2 million, the largest reported verdict on such a case in the past ten years. A former Municipal Judge for the City of Wheeling, West Virginia, Mr. McLaughlin is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1976 and the University of Denver, J.D., 1979. He is an active member of the local and national legal communities. He is a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ), the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA), the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (WVTLA), the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) - Civil Trial Advocacy, Public Justice and the International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI). Mr. McLaughlin has also met the standard of excellence for selection as one of The National Trial Lawyer's Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Colorado. The Immediate Past Chair of the AAJ Product Liability Section, Mr. McLaughlin is a regular speaker on a variety of legal topics and is the author of numerous published legal papers. Mr. McLaughlin has been named by Colorado Super Lawyers magazine as one of the top attorneys in Colorado every year since 2007. Each year no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state receive this honor.
Honors / Awards
· Colorado Super Lawyer, 2007-2012 (Personal Injury Plaintiff: Products)
Professional Affiliations
· The National Trial Lawyers
· American Association for Justice (AAJ)
· Colorado Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA)
· West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association (WVTLA)
· National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA) - Civil Trial Advocacy
· AAJ Electric Blanket and Heating Pad Litigation Group (Chairperson)
· AAJ Product Liability Section (Chair Elect)
· AAJ Finance Committee
· AAJ Ortho Evra Litigation Group
· CTLA Product Liability Committee (Co-Chair)
· Public Justice
· International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI)
Authorship
· Neonatal Group B Strep - ATLA Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., July14,1998
· Electric Blanket Fires - IAAI Arkansas Chapter, Annual Convention, Hot Springs, AR, October 27, 2000
· Glade PlugIns® Fires - ATLA Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada, July 26, 2005
· Electric Blanket and Heating Pad Fires - ATLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, July 22, 2006
· Electric Blanket and Heating Pad Fires - AAJ Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, July 15, 2008
· Toxic Hip Replacements - AAJ Trial magazine, February 2012 edition