Dugan Babij & Tolley LLC

View the profile as it appeared in Maryland Rising Stars 2009 (PDF)

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Dugan Babij & Tolley LLC represents victims of medical malpractice with an emphasis on protecting the legal rights of infants and children injured by obstetrical or neonatal malpractice. In addition to malpractice and wrongful death cases, the firm represents individuals who are grievously injured as a result of catastrophic accidents.

TRUTH IS THE BEST MEDICINE

“I didn’t set out to be a businessman, I set out to help people,” says Henry E. Dugan Jr., the firm’s senior partner. The firm’s lawyers believe passionately in protecting peoples’ rights to hold health-care providers and hospitals accountable when they negligently cause harm, and they have built their litigation practice around those beliefs. “We represent people whose lives have been destroyed,” Dugan says, “and we help those people, many of whom have suffered catastrophic injury, to get justice.”

ABOVE ALL, PROFESSIONALISM

“The single most important thing a lawyer has is his or her word,” Dugan says. Trust, integrity and caring are hallmarks of the firm, which combines legal advocacy with compassionate representation.

Along the way, the firm has earned the respect of the nationwide legal community, through the breadth and depth of its expertise and its unwavering commitment to fairness and justice. In addition to earning top ratings from Martindale-Hubbell®, Dugan Babij & Tolley is honored as the only Maryland law firm inducted into Primerus®, a network of top-rated, independent law firms known for quality and integrity.

ACKNOWLEDGED LEADERS

Four of the firm’s attorneys are listed in the 2009 edition of Maryland Super Lawyers®. Despite the obligations of a busy trial practice, the firm encourages its members to be active in the legal community.

Dugan recently served a term on the board of governors of the Maryland State Bar Association, from 2005 to 2007. He currently chairs an MSBA subcommittee on access to the courts.

Bruce J. Babij has authored several articles on products liability. He is a contributing member of the American Association for Justice and numerous trial lawyers associations.

George S. Tolley III served as chair of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association’s medical negligence section, and is currently MTLA’s treasurer and chair of its legislative committee. He is a featured speaker at continuing legal education seminars on legal and medical issues.

Alison D. Kohler and Elizabeth J. Frey are past presidents of MTLA, only the second and third women to have achieved that leadership position. They both continue to be active on the MTLA’s committees.