Partner

Susan Connors

Roseland, NJ

Licensed in 1 State

About Susan

Susan is designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. She is a zealous litigator with areas of practice focused primarily on medical malpractice and personal injury. Susan has successfully tried and resolved numerous complex and significant medical malpractice and personal injury cases, including claims relating to delayed cancer diagnosis, emergency medicine (ER), stroke/brain hemorrhage, decubitus ulcers, ophthalmologic care, misdiagnosis of choroidal melanoma, cellulitis (infection) resulting in foot/leg amputation, surgical errors including laser ablation and nerve injury, DVT/blood clots in post-Achilles tear, surgical errors, dental malpractice and wrongful birth. She has also successfully represented clients in cases involving sub-standard nursing home/institutional care. Many of Susan’s clients have incurred significant harm as the result of the negligence of health care practitioners, and through her professional efforts, clients have been awarded more than $50 million over the past eight years via either settlements or jury verdicts. Some of her representative results have included a $7.2 combined settlement and trial in Essex County (separate settlements of $5.1 and $2.1 million) involving the failure to diagnose and timely treat a brain hemorrhage in a hospital emergency department, $850,000 settlement after one week of trial involving the failure to inform a patient of the signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism, $1 million settlement for delayed treatment of foot infection requiring amputation, $1.25 million settlement in delayed diagnosis of bladder cancer, $2.65 combined settlement involving a the failure to properly treat complaints of chest pain in an emergency department that resulted in cardiac arrest and death, and a $550,000 jury award involving a diagnostic error by an orthopedic surgeon that led to development of a blood clot. Other injury cases that Susan has successfully handled on behalf of clients have included in-patient institutional negligence, lack of informed consent to treatment, surgical errors, delayed diagnosis of cancer, leg amputation due to missed diagnosis of vascular occlusion, improper monitoring of anesthesia resulting in cardiac arrest, and negligence in failing to properly interpret radiologic imaging scans resulting in the rupture of an undetected brain aneurysm. Overall, she has successfully tried and settled a multitude of cases relating to a wide array of medical procedures and treatments involving catastrophic injuries requiring reliance upon multi-discipline specialists and expert testimony. Susan is admitted to practice in New Jersey as well as before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. She is a member of the Medical Malpractice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and has served as a lecturer on recent developments in medical malpractice at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Annual Tort Law Conference. Susan is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law where she was a director/writer for the Moot Court Advocacy Program. She also served as a judicial intern to Honorable Alfred J. Lechner, Jr., U.S. District Court, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Frederick C. Kentz, Jr. in the Superior Court, Chancery, Equity Division, in Union County. Susan received her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University, earning Cum Laude distinction, and was a member of the political science honor society. She also served in the University’s Senate, while also a four-year member of the Division I volleyball and Division III fencing teams.