Jared P. O’Connor of Shaheen & Gordon

Jared P. O’Connor is recognized as a top lawyer in Workers’ Compensation Law – Claimants

October 17, 2024

Kendal J. Bush, Photographer,

We selected eight of the best lawyers from around the state for portraits and asked them to share a favorite quotation and to tell us why they love what they do. These profiles appeared along with Woodward/White’s annual Best Lawyers in America list, as published in our November issue.

“The prompt payment of compensation at a time when the breadwinner is stricken and money is most needed without forcing the claimant to pursue an elaborate, expensive, and dilatory process of proof is one of the striking benefits of the act.”
— Opinion of the Solicitor of the Department of Labor (1908)

“I love workers’ compensation practice because you can really turn people’s lives around quickly and help them when they are at their most vulnerable. When clients come to me with a serious industrial accident or occupational disease, their lives have been turned upside down. In most cases, the only recourse is to present their case to the Labor Department. The hearing process can be legally complex, but it moves fast, so being able to guide people confidently through a bewildering thicket of legal doctrine and medical disputes to quickly get them the treatment and benefits they need to survive, heal and move on with their lives, is immensely rewarding work. Doing this work at a firm with the regional presence and impeccable reputation of Shaheen & Gordon has also allowed me to expand statewide the most meaningful part of my practice: representation of firefighters, police officers and other first responders who routinely place themselves in harm’s way, people who accept work injuries as an inevitable part of their duty and who deserve top-shelf advocacy as a result.”

Jared P Oconnor