Jeffrey N. Catalano
Attorney Catalano is Managing Partner of the Tort Department at Keches Law Group. He represents victims of catastrophic injuries resulting from medical malpractice, auto and bike accidents, construction and property accidents, and food poisoning. He has obtained numerous million-dollar settlements and verdicts including the largest medical malpractice verdict in Massachusetts in 2017 and a $10 million medical malpractice arbitration award, the largest in Massachusetts history.
Attorney Catalano is a staunch advocate for victim rights and firmly believes that the legal process serves a valuable role in helping to alleviate the substantial burdens incurred by those who are injured, while also improving the consumer and health care safety. In that regard, he has spoken on patient rights and medical-legal issues statewide and nationally. He has also testified before the Massachusetts State Legislature on consumer justice legislation and helped create an innovative medical negligence law.
Premios
Attorney Catalano has been selected as a Top Medical Malpractice Attorney according to a Boston Globe and Wall Street Journal survey, a Best Lawyer in America by U.S. News & World Report, a New England Super Lawyer, and one of the Top 100 Attorneys by Boston Magazine.
El abogado Catalano tuvo el honor de recibir en dos ocasiones el "Premio del Presidente" de la Academia de Abogados Litigantes de Massachusetts por su dedicación a la justicia y a los derechos del consumidor.
Participación en el voluntariado, la comunidad y el colegio de abogados
El abogado Catalano es ex presidente de la Colegio de Abogados de Massachusetts (MBA). He serves on two major patient safety boards that work to facilitate disclosure, apology, and compensation following medical injury. He is also on the Board of Directors for Lawyers for Civil Rights. His volunteer activity has included representing special needs students, assisting individuals in need of public housing assistance, and serving as a coach and judge of the MBA’s annual high school Mock Trial Competition.
Antecedentes personales
Attorney Catalano grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania as the son of two school teachers. After college, he worked with underprivileged children in Boston as a full-time volunteer with the Cuerpo de Voluntarios Jesuitas. He then attended Boston College Law School, where he was President of the Public Interest Law Foundation, and received the law school’s “Professional and Personal Achievement Award.” Following law school, he and his wife Elizabeth created a non-profit that provided stipends to law students in public interest jobs.
