PARSIPPANY — E. Drew Britcher of Leone in Glen Rock has been named one of the top 10 attorneys in New Jersey for 2016 by New Jersey Super Lawyers magazine, making him the only medical malpractice attorney named among the Top 10 for the last five consecutive years. Britcher is also only one of two attorneys specializing in personal injury law that have been named to the list of the Top 10 for each of the last five years. Britcher is a resident of Parsippany.
2016 marks the twelfth consecutive year that Britcher has been included in New Jersey Super Lawyers and the eleventh consecutive year he has been named among the Top 100 in the state by New Jersey Super Lawyers. No more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to the general list, but less than 1/1000th are named to the Top 10.
As head of Britcher Leone’s trial practice, Drew has successfully prosecuted or resolved hundreds of complex medical, negligence, liability and other personal injury claims. Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney, he has served as either counsel of record or amicus counsel in more than 30 reported decisions of the United State Supreme Court, the New Jersey Supreme Court and New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division.
Britcher has also been named one of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America by Lawdragon Magazine and among “Bergen’s Best” by 201 Magazine. In addition, he has received numerous awards for his service to the American Association for Justice, as well as its New Jersey Chapter. In 2015, he was honored with a Professional Lawyer of the Year Award by the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law.
He is a past-president of the New Jersey Association for Justice and has served as the chairperson of its Amicus and Medical Malpractice Committees for over a decade. Britcher is also a member of the Board of Governors for the American Association for Justice.
Britcher was a founding member of the Board of Trial Lawyers Care, an organization that provided pro bono legal representation to victims and families of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. He also helped shape the language of New Jersey’s Patients’ First and Patient Safety Acts and is an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School, where he teaches courses in medical malpractice law and litigation.
He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, as well as before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
He earned a J.D. from New York Law School and a B.A. from Rutgers College, where he has been inducted as a Loyal Son.
