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Medical Malpractice Law

750 E Main St suite 810, Stamford, CT 06902, USA

Paul Slager represents plaintiffs in complex cases where people have suffered life-changing personal or financial injuries. His experience as a tested trial lawyer with significant courtroom experience and skills — as well as a genuine affection for the people he represents — shapes his approach in every case. As a result of his singular focus on helping people, he has helped numerous deserving clients obtain high seven- and eight-figure recoveries after challenging litigation. Mr. Slager has a national reputation as an elite advocate for seriously injured people, but he focuses his law practice on helping people in courts throughout Connecticut. His track record is long, and his history of large recoveries for his clients is well documented. The Connecticut Super Lawyers* publication has repeatedly listed him as one of the Top 10 Attorneys in Connecticut. He is honored to be the only trial attorney to have three different verdicts or settlements inducted as winners in the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Personal Injury Hall of Fame, and the Best Lawyers publication has named Mr. Slager a “Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year” in several plaintiff-centered practice areas many times, including most recently in 2025 and 2026. During 2019-20, Mr. Slager was elected and served as President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, a bar association that serves more than 1,000-member trial attorneys. He served in that capacity when the COVID pandemic hit, working closely with all stakeholders, including the Connecticut Bar Association, the Connecticut legislature, and the Connecticut Judicial Branch, to respond in real time to the crisis the pandemic created for Connecticut’s court systems. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, an invitation-only membership limited to 500 active lawyers across the United States. Both the Connecticut legislature and the Judicial Branch have appointed him multiple times to committees studying potential improvements in laws providing protections to Connecticut citizens. Mr. Slager pursues serious cases in Connecticut that stem from catastrophic events, including medical malpractice, sexual abuse, violent crimes, interstate trucking crashes, defective consumer products, fires and explosions, brain injuries, and other life-altering events. Consistent with his interest in handling complex cases. He also has pursued cases for businesses and individuals on a contingency fee basis in situations involving significant financial disputes. In keeping with the core principles of Slager Madry, Mr. Slager only accepts cases that involve serious consequences, and only after conducting a detailed investigation to determine cases have merit. He will pursue cases only when doing so will balance an important injustice, improve public safety, or otherwise make a significant positive difference for a family or the larger community.

Medical Malpractice Law

1050 Franklin Avenue, Suite 408, Garden City, NY 11530

Peter DeNoto has been a Partner in the firm since 2005, and he focuses his practice on trying complex cases and providing general legal services to professionals, corporations, and institutions. His responsibilities include the management and handling of risk management activities, including pre-litigation investigations, and all aspects of litigation once suit is initiated. In 2006, to improve the quality of services that the firm was providing to Long Island-based clients, he opened the firm’s Garden City office with two other attorneys. Since that time, the Long Island practice has expanded to twelve attorneys plus a support staff of eight under Mr. DeNoto’s supervision. Peter provides consulting services for national corporations regarding financial exposure, litigation planning and handling, and litigation resolution, and he lectures on risk management issues and medical-legal issues.

Medical Malpractice Law

170 Old Country Rd, Mineola, NY 11501, USA

Medical Malpractice Law

8329 W Sunset Rd, Las Vegas, NV 89113, USA

Robert C. McBride is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Nevada-Reno in 1984 where he was a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, a journalism honor society. Thereafter, Robert moved to Southern California where he worked as a free-lance journalist, later obtaining his juris doctorate (J.D.) from Whittier College School of Law in 1990. Robert was an associate attorney with the law firm of Baker, Silberberg & Keener in Santa Monica and Newport Beach, California for several years, where his practice primarily focused on the defense of physicians and hospitals. He has also defended claims involving products liability, legal malpractice, insurance bad faith, and commercial litigation. As a senior associate with Baker, Silberberg & Keener, Robert participated in numerous arbitrations and mediations in California, as well as several jury trials, all which resulted in defense verdicts. He also served as National Coordinating Counsel for Petrarch/Huls Corporation, a silicone supplier defendant in the In Re: Breast Implant Litigation venued in United States District Court in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2001, Robert chose to join the California-based law firm of Tuverson & Hillyard as a partner to help start up a branch of the firm in his hometown, Las Vegas office, continuing the focus on the defense of healthcare professionals in Nevada. Robert also continued to represent clients involved in products liability, general liability and legal malpractice claims. In 2006, the firm changed its name to Tuverson & McBride. While with the firm, he was instrumental in building the practice and its client base to include the major medical malpractice insurance carriers and hospitals in Nevada. From January of 2009 to March of 2014, Robert was a named partner in the firm Mandelbaum, Ellerton & McBride, where he continued to represent physicians and dentists in malpractice claims, and successfully defended several trials and arbitrations with the firm. In March of 2014, Robert joined Carroll, Kelly, Trotter, Franzen, McBride & Peabody as the managing partner of the Las Vegas office. He is a member of the Clark County Bar Association and the Defense Research Institute. He is licensed in both California and Nevada. Robert frequently lectures to physicians and other healthcare professionals at risk management seminars sponsored by Nevada Mutual Insurance Company, and Medicus, as well as the Nevada chapters of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and the American College of Surgeons on a wide range of risk management topics. He has successfully tried over 40 cases to verdict in his career and has successfully arbitrated many claims.

Medical Malpractice Law

3030 N 3rd St suite 1300, Phoenix, AZ 85012, USA

Ms. Burgess is an experienced trial attorney who emphasizes health care, medical malpractice, product liability, professional liability, employment law, personal injury and municipal liability in her practice. She has tried cases in state and federal courts, on issues ranging from complex medical negligence claims, to police use-of-force and constitutional claims, and has argued appeals in Arizona’s Appellate and Supreme courts, and before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2013 she prosecuted a murder-for-hire case as a special prosecutor for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office resulting in a conviction on all counts, and in 2014 she prosecuted a high profile fraud matter, also as a special prosecutor. She serves as a Judge Pro Tem in the Maricopa County Superior Court, and also acts as a mediator for settlement conferences. In the healthcare field, Ms. Burgess counsels and represents individual physicians and chiropractors, as well as hospitals, group homes, behavioral health providers, nurses and paramedics. In addition to litigation, she handles representation of healthcare providers before their licensing boards and provides counseling to clients to help them avoid litigation when possible. Ms. Burgess also regularly represents public entities, in various tort and civil rights litigation matters. She has handled cases involving public transit, accident, roadway design, police and detention officers’ use of force, civil rights, employment, personal injury, prison break and wrongful death claims for various municipalities. She has been an expert witness regarding notice of claim issues. Ms. Burgess, a firm Shareholder and Director since 2000, is a member of Sanders & Parks’ management team, serving as the firm’s Secretary/Treasurer for 12 years before being elected the firm’s President and Managing Shareholder in 2023. She earned her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, in 1991. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies, cum laude, from Wellesley College, in 1988. While at Georgetown, she was a member of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics. She was admitted to practice law in the State of Virginia in 1991, and Arizona in 1993. Following law school, Ms. Burgess was an associate attorney in Washington, D.C., where she focused on health care and corporate transactional practice. Before joining Sanders & Parks, she spent a year as Judicial Clerk with the Honorable Susan A. Ehrlich of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One. She is licensed to practice law before the United States Court of Appeals, Fourth and Ninth Circuits. Ms. Burgess has been recognized for her legal skills by her peers. Since 2013, she has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of healthcare law, and has been named to Arizona’s Top 50 Lawyers on a number of occasions. She has also been selected as one of Arizona’s top 25 women attorneys. AZ Business Magazine listed Ms. Burgess as one of the top 100 lawyers in Arizona in 2015-2018, and she has been selected as one of Arizona’s Business Leaders. She was recognized as a Woman of Achievement by In Business Magazine. She has also been ranked as one of the top healthcare attorneys in Arizona by Ranking Arizona magazine. She is rated “AV Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, has been recognized as a top healthcare attorney nationally, and has appeared on CBS as a legal analyst/expert.