Pamela Ann Nichols
Pam has been a Partner at O’Connell & Aronowitz since 1997 where she practices in our Personal Injury Litigation Department. She was the firm’s managing partner for fifteen years.
Pam consistently obtains excellent results representing plaintiffs in personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, automobile collisions, trucking crashes, dangerous products, abused children, and defective medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Pam recently settled an automobile collision involving a pedestrian for $4 million. She settled a pedestrian-construction case for $2.65 million. Pam co-counseled a trial for an $11 million verdict in a medical malpractice case involving sexually abused children. Pam obtained a $1.8 million settlement in a medical malpractice case involving a physically abused and neglected child. She settled a wrongful death trucking collision for $6.5 million dollars and a ski injury case for $1.5 million dollars. She child victim act settlements have exceeded $3.0 million dollars.
When she is not practicing law, Pam is an active volunteer supporting many different causes that encourage and ensure health and safety. Under her leadership, O’Connell and Aronowitz volunteer attorneys have brought distracted driving awareness to more than 14,000 students in upstate New York. Pam has also presented the enddd.org program to the NYS Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee and NYS Partnership for Teen Driving Safety.
Pam serves as the Capital Region Affiliate President of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and is a member of NYSTLA’s Executive Committee. She is an active member of the Leader’s Forum with the American Association for Justice and The Injury Board, a national community of personal injury attorneys committed to consumer safety. She has been named to the Best Lawyers in America list and the Super Lawyer’s list since 2012. Pam also earned the highest level of recognition from her peers with Martindale-Hubbell’s AV Preeminent Rating.
- Health Care Law
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 2390359
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- Albany Law School
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- New York State Bar # 2390359
- Member
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