Thomas M. McNamara received his B.A. from Southern Connecticut State College in 1975. He received his law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1985. He is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, The American Association for Justice, Connecticut Bar Association and New Haven County Bar Association. He is a charter member of the National Center for Victims of Crime. Mr. McNamara concentrates his practice in the area of personal injury litigation and workers’ compensation. He has been representing victims of sexual abuse against the clergy and other perpetrators since 1992 and has lectured on the subject for the Connecticut Bar Association and Middlesex County Bar... Read More
About Thomas M. McNamara
Thomas M. McNamara received his B.A. from Southern Connecticut State College in 1975. He received his law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1985. He is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, The American Association for Justice, Connecticut Bar Association and New Haven County Bar Association. He is a charter member of the National Center for Victims of Crime. Mr. McNamara concentrates his practice in the area of personal injury litigation and workers’ compensation. He has been representing victims of sexual abuse against the clergy and other perpetrators since 1992 and has lectured on the subject for the Connecticut Bar Association and Middlesex County Bar Association.
Attorney McNamara represented sixteen of forty-three victims in a twenty-two-million-dollar settlement with the Archdiocese of Hartford in 2005. In 2012 Attorney McNamara tried the first clergy sex abuse case to go to trial against the Archdiocese of Hartford. The jury found in favor of the plaintiff and the archdiocese appealed the verdict and the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, resulting in a final recovery of $1,661,413.50. He has provided testimony as to the benefits of full publicity and transparency in sexual abuse litigation. In another case, sounding in malicious prosecution against a plaintiff’s counsel, he was hired as an expert witness to opine that the attorneys representing a sexual assault plaintiff had probable cause to commence and prosecute a civil lawsuit against the defendant in the underlying case.
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