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Laurie Amell
 
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Company Name : Stein, Mitchell & Mezines LLP
 
Company Website : www.steinmitchell.com
 
Company Address : 1100 Connecticut Ave. NW
, Washington, DC,
United States,
 
Laurie Amell's Profile : Partner
 
Laurie Amell's Biography :

Laurie A. Amell, R.N., J.D. is a partner with the firm of Stein, Mitchell & Muse. She has been named 2007 "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. She is listed in "Best Lawyers in America" for both medical malpractice law and personal injury litigation. In August 2007, Ms. Amell was featured in Fortune magazine as one of America's Premier Lawyers by Sky Radio Network. In October 2007, she was featured in Washingtonian magazine in their 2007 Women in Business section. Ms. Amell was listed as one of the top lawyers in D.C. in the December 2007 issue of Washingtonian magazine.

A graduate of Georgetown University School of Nursing and George Mason University School of Law, Ms. Amell has specialized in complex personal injury, medical and pharmaceutical negligence, and wrongful death litigation for 15 years. She has successfully represented clients, both in trial and settlement proceedings, achieving record-setting recoveries. She has obtained dozens of six and seven figure verdicts and settlements in medical negligence and personal injury cases, including an eight figure verdict in a brain injury case in D.C. Federal Court in December 2002. Ms. Amell's recent jury verdicts include:

$5.26 million verdict in Lawson v. United States for severe and permanent brain injury to Ruth Lawson, the young wife of an Air Force Intelligence Officer. Ms. Lawson had a congenital brain abnormality known as Arnold Chiari Malformation. This malformation became symptomatic during her 2nd pregnancy, during which time she developed a cascade of neurological signs and symptoms as a result of increasing intracranial pressure. Her symptoms were all down-played, were blamed on her pregnancy, and she was viewed as a "problem patient." Her cerebellum and hindbrain suffered permanent injury because she was not afforded a basic neurological work-up during her pregnancy. On September 29, 2006, United States District Judge Roger Titus issued an 87 page written opinion ruling down the line for Ms. Lawson on all issues. Click here to read the opinion of Judge Titus.

$3.56 million jury verdict in a medical negligence case tried before Judge Geoffrey M. Alprin in the District of Columbia Superior Court for three weeks in May-June 2007. In October 1987, our client submitted to an HIV test by his general practitioner, who subsequently reported the shocking news that his ELISA and Western Blot tests were positive establishing a diagnosis of HIV infection and the likely development of full-blown AIDS within several years. However, both tests were negligently performed and interpreted yielding a false positive result. Our client's HIV status was never re-checked for the next 14 years and for 9 of those years he received an aggressive regimen of toxic antiretroviral medications. In October 2001, our client was in search of less costly HIV treatment, and so he contacted NIH to participate in a clinical trial involving longstanding HIV-positive patients who had not developed the AIDS complex or related illnesses. The NIH protocol required that every patient admitted into therapy undergo confirmatory HIV testing. For the first time in 14 years, our client was re-tested for HIV and his results were conclusively negative. The jury awarded $3.56 million in damages ($2.7 for pain & suffering and $800k for lost wages) against the lab and primary care doctor.

$2.4 million jury verdict in Curtis-Jackson v. Women's Health Center of Fredericksburg for a birth-injury case resulting in permanent brain injury to a baby boy and significant emotional injury to his mother. The hypoxia suffered by the baby prior to delivery left him with permanent cognitive deficits, inability to work, and substantial behavioral problems. They jury awarded $2.3 million for the child and $100,000 for the mother in the conservative venue of Fredericksburg, Virginia in 2004. The defense filed a lengthy post-trial motion, which was denied, and then the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the appeal, so justice was finally served in 2005.

Ms. Amell is the President-Elect of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. (TLA-DC) and has served on the TLA-DC Board of Governors since 1999. She is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Ms. Amell is a member of the American Association for Justice, American Bar Association, Fairfax Bar Association; and the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia Trial Lawyers Associations. Ms. Amell graduated cum laude from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Nursing in 1986. She worked as a staff nurse on the Cardiac-Surgical Special Care Unit at Georgetown University Hospital from 1986-1988 before deciding to pursue a career in the law. She continued to work as a critical care nurse until 1989, while attending her first year in law school, and rotated between the medical, surgical, cardiac, pediatric, and neurological intensive care units at Georgetown University Hospital. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin on January 18, 1963. She and her husband Michael Angst have been married for 23 years and have a four year old son named Tyler James Amell-Angst.

 
Laurie Amell's Colleagues :
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Jacob Stein Partner Please login
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