Thomas Merrigan

Hon. Thomas T. Merrigan (Ret.) is a Partner at Sweeney Merrigan Personal Injury Lawyers, with offices in Boston, Falmouth, and Greenfield, Massachusetts. He has more than four decades of experience and focuses on personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal defense.

Merrigan served as First Justice of Orange District Court from 1990 to 2002 and as Associate Justice on the Appellate Division of District Court from 1994 to 2002. He has been practicing law in Massachusetts since 1976. Notable results include a $10 million verdict for a sexual assault survivor - the largest civil verdict in Franklin County history and largest sexual assault verdict in Massachusetts.

He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1976, his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (with junior year at the University of Nottingham), and attended Deerfield Academy. He is a trained mediator with certificates from the National Judicial College, Harvard Law School Negotiation Project, and MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program. Honors include the Warren Burger Award - Trial Court Judge of the Year (2000), Best Lawyers in America (2023), Top 100 Trial Lawyers (National Trial Lawyers), and Massachusetts Super Lawyer (2018-2022).