James M Campbell

President of the law firm of Campbell Campbell Edwards & Conroy Professional Corporation, focuses his practice on civil litigation and the defense of catastrophic product liability, toxic tort, medical device, pharmaceutical and negligence matters throughout the United States. One of the firm's principal trial attorneys, he is responsible for supervising and coordinating litigation for the firm throughout New England and other regions of the country. Mr. Campbell has tried cases in 15 different states; he has tried over 75 cases to verdict.

Mr. Campbell graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983 and from Boston College, magna cum laude, in 1980. He is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts, Maine, Florida and New Hampshire, the federal of Connecticut, Vermont, the First and Eleventh Circuits and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Campbell is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and serves on the Technology Committee. He is the Immediate Past President and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Defense Counsel. He was the Director of the 2005 IADC Trial Academy and served on the faculty of the 1997 IADC Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell is a Diplomate of the American Board of Trial Advocates, serves on its National Board of Directors, and is a past President of the Massachusetts Chapter of ABOTA. He is a member of the Defense Research Institute's Board of Directors and a former member of the steering committees of DRI's Products Liability Committee and Trial Tactics Committee. Mr. Campbell previously served as the Director of the ABA TIPS 2003 Trial Academy and faculty member for the 2001 Trial Academy. Mr. Campbell is also a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Association of Defense Trial Lawyers and a former president of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association.

Mr. Campbell is the co-author of a Defense Research Institute monograph regarding the duty to warn and authored a chapter concerning the discoverability of post-accident design changes in product liability actions for the DRI's Pre-Trial Handbook. As an editor and contributing author, he assisted in producing two chapters for the DRI's 50 state compendium of defenses to product liability cases. He has lectured on products liability at numerous national seminars and before trade associations.