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Paul Cahill Recognized as Best Lawyer for Medical Malpractice

August 26, 2023
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Toronto based lawyer Paul Cahill has been recognized in 2024 as one of the best lawyers for medical negligence and personal injury litigation. Paul Cahill has held this accolade since 2021.

Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication company in the legal profession.

Recognition by Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor, conferred on a lawyer by their peers. For more than four decades, this publication has earned the respect of the profession, the media and the public as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.

The Best Lawyers lists of outstanding lawyers are compiled by conducting exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. If the votes for a lawyer are positive enough for recognition by Best Lawyers, that lawyer must maintain those votes in subsequent polls to remain in each edition. Lawyers are not permitted to pay any fee to participate in or be recognized by Best Lawyers.

Paul Cahill has earned his place among the best lawyers for his work in medical malpractice and personal injury litigation. This comes after nearly two decades of legal experience dedicated to helping those persons seriously harmed or killed by medical error.

Over his career, Paul Cahill has assisted countless individuals and families obtain significant compensation in medical malpractice lawsuits for birth injuries, obstetrical negligence, cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injuries, hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy at birth, surgical negligence claims, misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis of cancer and other diseases, hospital falls, nursing negligence, medication errors, post-operative negligence, and many more.

Paul Cahill

Paul is a partner at Davidson Cahill Morrison LLP. He has proven himself a fearless advocate by a number of successful trial outcomes over the years, including a $11.5 million judgment for medical malpractice causing cerebral palsy against a negligent doctor as well as a recent judgment against a negligent emergency room physician who caused the death of a 34 year-old mother of 4 young children.

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