Gerald Thurswell

Gerald Thurswell is the founder of Thurswell Law in Southfield, Michigan, where he represents injured people and families in medical malpractice, birth injury, auto accident and police misconduct cases. According to the firm, he has secured multimillion-dollar jury verdicts and settlements in Michigan courts and in other states.

Thurswell earned a Bachelor of Science from Wayne State University, where he made the Dean’s List, and graduated cum laude from Wayne State University Law School at 23. He is admitted in Michigan, the District of Columbia, Illinois, New York and Colorado, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is a past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America – Metropolitan Detroit, belongs to the Birth Trauma Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice and, per the firm, has served on the executive board of the Michigan Association for Justice for more than 15 years. He has worked as an investigator and arbitrator for the State Bar of Michigan, chaired a hearing panel for the Attorney Discipline Board, and serves on the Wayne County Circuit Court case evaluation tribunal. He has also arbitrated for the American Arbitration Association, facilitated cases for the Oakland County Circuit Court and lectured at law schools.