Steven Maher
Shareholder | The Maher Law Firm
Steven Maher is a personal injury, product liability and dangerous drugs & medical devices trial lawyer and shareholder at The Maher Law Firm in Winter Park, Florida. Admitted in Arizona, California, District of Columbia, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania; J.D., USC Gould School of Law (1987).
Meet Steven
Steven R. Maher is a shareholder at The Maher Law Firm in Winter Park, Florida. Over more than 30 years he has represented injured people and families in personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home neglect and defective drug and medical device cases, along with class action and antitrust litigation.
Maher was lead counsel on a $25 million jury verdict that VerdictSearch included among the top 100 verdicts of 2006. He also tried a $10 million medical malpractice verdict for the wrongful death of a child and won a $6 million verdict in Philadelphia against a nursing home over an untreated, infected bedsore. Federal courts have appointed him to plaintiffs’ steering committees in the Yaz and Yasmin and Vytorin multidistrict litigation, and he served as co-lead counsel for a class of indirect purchasers in a chocolate price-fixing case.
A board-certified civil trial lawyer, he is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and a fellow of the International Society of Barristers. He holds a law degree from the University of Southern California and a business degree from Loyola Marymount University, and he is licensed in Florida, California, Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the District of Columbia. Best Lawyers named him the 2017 Orlando Plaintiffs Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer
- J.D., University of Southern California, 1987
- B.B.A., Loyola Marymount University, 1984
- Licensed in Florida, California, Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the District of Columbia
- Admitted, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Admitted, U.S. District Courts in California (Southern, Northern, Eastern, Central), Pennsylvania (Eastern, Western), Florida (Southern, Middle), New Jersey and New York (Southern, Eastern)
Practice Areas
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- International Society of Barristers (Fellow)
- Florida Justice Association
- American Association for Justice
- The National Trial Lawyers
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum (Life Member)
- Best Lawyers in America, Plaintiffs Personal Injury Lawyer of the Year, Orlando, 2017
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers, 2007-2017
- Florida Trend Legal Elite, 2017
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating
- Best Lawyers in America, Plaintiffs Personal Injury and Mass Tort / Class Actions, 2016
- Florida Super Lawyers, every year since 2007
- Eagle Talon Award, Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers
- FLAG Award, Florida Lawyers Action Group, 2001
- Avvo 10.0 Superb Rating
- $25 Million Verdict: Jury verdict on which Maher was lead counsel; listed among VerdictSearch's Top 100 Verdicts of 2006.
- $10 Million Verdict: Medical malpractice jury verdict in the wrongful death of a child, tried with Maher as lead trial lawyer; described as one of the largest in Florida.
- $6 Million Verdict: Philadelphia jury verdict against a nursing home in an elder neglect case involving a large, infected bedsore; described as the largest nursing home verdict in Pennsylvania.
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