Susan Connors

Susan Connors is a partner at Nagel Rice LLP and a certified civil trial attorney concentrating on medical malpractice and personal injury matters. Her practice spans professional negligence across multiple medical specialties including emergency medicine failures, surgical errors, cancer misdiagnosis, cardiac abnormalities, birth injuries, and nursing home negligence. She has secured over $100 million in settlements and verdicts over the past decade. Connors holds memberships in the Medical Malpractice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and serves as a Trustee of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey.

She graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University and directed the Moot Court Program at Seton Hall University School of Law. She has been named to the Super Lawyers list from 2020 to 2025 and to the Top 50 Women Attorneys in New Jersey for 2026. Notable results include a $25 million settlement for a patient who was left bilaterally blind after a neurosurgeon failed to treat an expanding neck hematoma, a $10 million settlement for a brain injury caused by a radiology failure to detect a ruptured aneurysm, and a $7.2 million combined verdict for emergency department failure to diagnose a brain hemorrhage.