Attorney Ron Murphy is a 1983 graduate of the University of Connecticut School of Law and the owner and principal trial lawyer of Advocates Law Firm. His practice is devoted exclusively to civil and criminal litigation for people injured or accused in the areas of Auto Accidents, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, White Collar Criminal Defense, Federal Criminal Defense, State Criminal Defense, Grievance Defense, Commercial Litigation, and General Complex Litigation. He has successfully tried civil and criminal cases in state and federal courts in Connecticut; and has argued civil and criminal appeals before the Connecticut Supreme Court and the Connecticut Appellate Court. He has also handled claims and cases in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, where he is also licensed to practice law.

Attorney Murphy is an accomplished and nationally recognized trial lawyer. He has been awarded the highest rating available for lawyers as voted by his peers and also has been designated a "SuperLawyer" in Connecticut as chosen by the publishers "Law and Politics."* He is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate (as determined by the National Board of Trial Advocacy); on the faculty of the Trial Lawyers College (based in Jackson, Wyoming) where he teaches lawyers from around the country how to get the maximum recovery for injured clients and how to best defend those accused of misconduct; on the faculty of the Trial Advocacy Institute (sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and the Connecticut Bar Association), where he teaches other lawyers how to be better trial advocates; and also an Adjunct Instructor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he currently teaches Trial Advocacy (and where he previously taught Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility).

Accident and Malpractice Claims

Since 1983, Attorney Ron Murphy has helped thousands of people obtain justice in the form of money damages for injuries and losses suffered as a result of negligence and carelessness.

Some sample verdicts or settlements include:

$2,200,000 in a Hartford medical malpractice case against a Windham County hospital, emergency room doctor, and a psychiatrist for the Estate of a young boy from Willimantic who died because doctors failed to diagnose his diabetes; $1,950,000 in a medical negligence claim for the Estate of a New Haven County man whose heart illness was not properly diagnosed by health care providers; $1,865,000 for a young girl who was a passenger in a car hit by a drunk driver in Tolland County; $1,400,000 for the Estate of a young boy who died as a result of a nurse's negligence; $1,100,000 for the Estate of woman from New Britain whose illness of necrotizing faciitis was not properly diagnosed by emergency room doctors in a Hartford County hospital; $800,000 for a young woman from Bristol who suffered facial scars and other serious injury in an auto accident in Hebron; $780,000 for a Berlin man injured by an orthopedic surgeon during arthroscopic shoulder surgery; $735,000 for a man who developed a serious infection and sepsis after a general surgeon perforated the bowel during a hernia repair operation and failed to notice the perforation before closing the surgical opening; $700,000 for a Killingworth woman injured in a car collision on I-91 in Cromwell; $690,000 for a man who suffered electircal injuries in a factory when defective extension cord came in contact with metal beams; $690,000 for a woman who suffered a broken hip and injured in a car accident; $600,000 for an elderly woman injured in a car accident; $575,000 for an eighty-one year old Massacusetts man who suffered broken legs when hit by a drunk driver leaving a Connecticut casino; $500,000 for a New Britain company that lost money because of a Hartford law firm's legal malpractice; $400,000 for an elderly Canton woman hurt in an auto accident in Newington; $365,000 for a New Hartford man whose heart attack was not treated properly by ambulance attendants; $300,000 for an Avon woman whose sinus cancer was not diagnosed in a timely manner; $276,000 for a twenty-seven year old woman who suffered a broken hip in a car accident; $250,000 in a legal malpractice claim for a young man from Torrington wrongfully convicted of assault with a deadly weapon because of his criminal defense lawyer's negligence and conflict of interest during trial; $225,000 in a medical malpractice claim for an eighty-one year old woman whose eye was injured during the administration of anesthesia before glaucoma surgery; $200,000 in a Hartford medical negligence case for a three year old girl injured during the administration of anesthesia during heart surgery; $150,000 for a young man who suffered a broken leg in a car accident; $125,000 for a Hartford woman whose federal civil rights were violated by a city police department; $100,000 in a dog bite case for a six-year old girl bitten in the face by a Rottweiller-Shepard mix. This is a short list of sample recoveries obtained for injured clients.

Attorney Murphy is a designated "SuperLawyer" in Connecticut as  chosen by the publishers "Law and Politics." *  He is also a Board Certfied Civil Trial Advocate as certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He practices in the area of Accident, Injury and Malpractice Litigation. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum; a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College and currently on its teaching staff; a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Governors 2005 to present); and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys. His relevant publications in this area include: "Medical Malpractice Claims - Connecticut Action and Remedies - Tort Law," Butterworth Publishing (1993); "Advanced Trial Advocacy for Plaintiffs," National Business Institute (2004); "Taking Depositions in Accident and Malpractice Cases: A Guide for Plaintiff's Lawyers," Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (2005); and his relevant presentations in this area include: "Deposition Strategies Seminar," Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (2005); "Advanced Trial Advocacy in Connecticut," National Business Institute (2004). Attorney Murphy is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate; and a former certified Emergency Medical Technician; and has been trained in Auto Accident Reconstruction.

Criminal Defense

Since 1983, Attorney Ron Murphy has successfully defended thousands of cases in state and federal criminal court.

Some of his criminal cases include:

acquittal for a car dealership bookkeeper after 7 weeks of trial in Hartford in Connecticut's first federal money laundering prosecution; acquittal after 8 weeks of trial in a multi-defendant drug prosecution in which the client was accused of being part of a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy in Hartford; acquittal of a Hartford man accused of participating in a West Hartford robbery and in Hartford Superior Court; acquittal of a professional truck driver accused of drunk driving; acquittal of a young insurance professional accused of DUI.

And while acquittals were not obtained in the following cases, the results were excellent for the client: 18 months in prison for a Hartford County man who pled guilty to embezzlement of almost two million dollars from a major Connecticut insurance company; after first degree murder trial began arising from the execution of a state witness in a arson case in Litchfield County, negotiated effective sentence of 7 years for Manslaughter First Degree; after trial began, no jail time for executive accused of white collar $7 million bank fraud; after federal civil rights violation trial began for for a Hartford police officer accused of raping a prostitute at gunpoint, a sentence of 4 months in halfway house after a plea to a reduce charge of giving a false statement to federal investigators; no jail time and one day probation for a Simsbury man accused of criminal negligent homicide with a firearm arising from the accidental shooting and killing of his roommate with a pistol; no jail time for young Farmington Valley woman charged with tampering with evidence and illegal sale and possession of drugs after her a friend died in her apartment from heroin overdose and police informants made undercover purchases from her condominium. Also, Attorney Murphy was both trial and appellate counsel in State v. Miller, a leading case in Connecticut law expanding the rights of citizens under the Connecticut Constitution.

Attorney Murphy is a designated "SuperLawyer" in Connecticut as  chosen by the publishers "Law and Politics." * Attorney Murphy is a 1990 graduate of the National Criminal Defense College; and a member of: National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (President 2000-2001); and the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. His relevant publications in this area include: "Ethical Considerations in Criminal Defense," National Business Institute, 1996; "Taking the Criminal Case to Trial," National Business Institute, 1996; and his relevant presentations in this area include: "Driving Under the Influence: Dealing with the New Laws and Regulations," Hartford County Bar Association (1993); "The Many Changes in State and Federal Criminal Law," Hartford County Bar Association (1995); "Strategies in Defending DUI Cases," National Business Institute (1996); "Criminal Defense Litigation in Connecticut," National Business Institute (1996); "Considerations of Ethics and Law for Criminal Defense Retainers," Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (2001); "Voir Dire for Criminal Defense," National Business Institute (2006).

Grievance Defense

Since 1983, Attorney Ron Murphy has successfully defended some of the most prominent members of the Bar (as no one is above being accused of violating the Rules of Professional Conduct). When defending lawyers accused of misconduct, Attorney Murphy draws on his experience and expertise from having been an Adjunct Instructor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he taught Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics (and where he currently teaches Trial Advocacy); his ongoing active memberships with the Connecticut Bar Association's two committees in this area: the Committee on Professional Ethics, and the Professional Discipline Committee; his extensive criminal and civil trial experience; and on his daily experience of being an owner and manager of a successful and busy law practice with associates and employees. Attorney Murphy is routinely consulted by members of the Connecticut Bar and the press on issues of legal ethics and professional discipline.

His relevant publications in this area include: "Ethical Considerations in Criminal Defense," National Business Institute, 1996; "Grievance Defense: Should You Respond on the Merits at the Local Panel?" Connecticut Law Tribune, 1998; "Protect Yourself Against Claims by Prospective Clients With Letters of Declination," Connecticut Law Tribune, 2000; "Ethical, Legal, and Practical Considerations of Retainer Agreements," Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, 2001; "Lawyer Advertising and Solicitation in Connecticut," National Business Institute 2002; and his relevant presentations in this area include: "Legal Ethics and Advertising," Connecticut Bar Association (2001); "Considerations of Ethics and Law for Criminal Defense Retainers," Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (2001); "Practical Legal Ethics in Connecticut," National Business Institute (2002); "Ethics and Trial Lawyers," Connecticut Bar Association (2003); "The Attorney Discipline Process - How to Best Deal with the New Rules, New People, and New Penalties," Connecticut Bar Association (2005). In addition, Attorney Murphy was an appointed member of the 1998 Task Force on Grievance Procedures.

Advocates Software LLC

Attorney Murphy is also the founder and owner of Advocates Software LLC. Drawing on his extensive experience as a trial lawyer and as the owner and manager of Advocates Law Firm, and as an expert in legal ethics and professional responsibility, Attorney Murphy has written a series of databases used to run small law offices that specialize in litigation, such as Advocates Law Firm. This software, currently in the beta stage, will eventually be marketed under the name of LitigationSoftware.com.

* Only 5% of all lawyers in Connecticut can be designated a SuperLawyer. Atty. Murphy has been so designated each year the list has been created in Connecticut, including the current year.

For information on how "Law and Politics chooses who is designated a SuperLawyer, go to the SuperLawyers website at : www.superlawyers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=4&Itemid=37