Kevin Dugan was born in Kingston, New York on October 30, 1959 and grew up in Florida. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University in 1981 and received his Juris Doctorate from Stetson College of Law in 1985. He was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1985 and was admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in 1986. In 1987, he was admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and United States Supreme Court in 1990. In 1990, Mr. Dugan was admitted to practice in the State Courts of New Hampshire and in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire.
Mr. Dugan's professional appointments, honors and offices held include the following:
Organizations and Offices Held
The New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association (Past president)
(Board of Governors)
(Secretary, 1996-1997)
(Treasurer, 1997-1998)
(President-Elect, 1998-1999)
(Continuing Legal Education Committee, Chairman)
American Association for Justice (Sustaining Member)
(Member, Birth Trauma Litigation Group)
(Member of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice)
Manchester (NH) Bar Association (Member)
The Florida Bar (Member)
Florida Justice Association (Member)
Honors
New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association, Board of Governor's Award (1997).
Highest rating bestowed on attorneys in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, (a publication which independently rates lawyers on the basis of their peers' opinions).
New Hampshire’s Top Attorneys in Personal Injury
and Medical Malpractice Law by New Hampshire Magazine
(2005-2007).
Best Lawyers in America in Medical Malpractice Law and
Personal Injury Litigation (2005-2008).
Selected for the Millennium Edition of Who's Who in American Law.
Selected
for the 2001 Edition of Who's Who in America.
One of New England’s Super Lawyers in 2007 .
Publications
Medical Expense Discounts and the Collateral Source Rule, (Co-author) 22 TBN 89 (Spring, 2000)
Parental Consortium in Non-Death Cases, (Co-author) 21 TBN 161 (Fall, 1999)
HMO Liability Part III: Return of the Plaintiffs, (Co-author) 21 TBN 67 (Spring, 1999)
Fear of Future Harm in Medical Malpractice Cases, (Co-author) 20 TBN 132 (Fall, 1998)
HMO Liability: Building Corporate Profits at the Expense of Patient Care, (Co-author) 19 TBN 144 (Winter, 1997)
HMO Liability Part II: ERISA Preemption . . . And the Saga of Corporate Greed Continues, (Co-author) 19 TBN 44 (Summer, 1997)
The Law of Nursing Malpractice, (Co-author) 18 TBN 7 (Spring, 1996)
Recent Developments in Hospital Liability, (Co-author) 16 TBN 129 (Fall, 1994)
Kevin has served on the faculty of the following continuing education seminars: 17th Annual Conference of the Brain Injury Association of New Hampshire; Litigating the Birth Trauma Case in New Hampshire (National Business Institute); The Paralegal's Role in Medical Malpractice Cases (Paralegal Association of New Hampshire); 15th Annual Symposium on Hemochromatosis: Legal Aspects of Hemochromatosis (Iron Overload Diseases Association); A Day with the Stars (NHTLA); The Trial Lawyers Workhorse Seminar (NHTLA); Practical Skills Seminar (NHBA); People's Law School (NHTLA); and Remedies Seminar (NHBA).
Kevin's fifteen years of practicing law have been devoted to representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice and personal injury cases.
