Our Firm & Attorneys
Janet, Jenner & Suggs Is A
Nationally Recognized Firm
For more than 30 years, the attorneys of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, L.L.C. has worked to uncover medication, hospital and doctor errors, transportation dangers, workplace injuries, toxic site hazards and insurance company and corporate misdeeds. In the process we have obtained substantial verdicts and settlements for our clients, some of them record-breaking. Our legal expertise and advocacy for our clients have earned the attorneys and firm the highest recognition for ethical conduct and professional excellence among leading peer review organizations.
Our firm is known for taking a strong stand to protect the rights of injured people and obtaining substantial verdicts or settlements for them.
Our Attorneys Are Legal Advocates
We have represented people in cases that involve medical negligence, birth injuries, hospital errors, misdiagnosis, business litigation, transportation cases, workers’ comp and other serious personal injury cases for more than 30 years. We have gone beyond the courtroom to help provide more legal rights for injured people. Through our successful cases we have:
- Secured the right for medical malpractice victims to hold negligent physicians/employees of the District of Columbia accountable for negligence, even when the employer is immune from being sued
- Established in Maryland that brain-damaged children may receive compensation for future life care expenses, even when their parents’ claim for those expenses is barred by a statute of limitations
- Established in Maryland that if a physician fraudulently conceals the cause of death the deadline for filing a wrongful death action can be extended
- Helped defeat state and national legislation that would curtail the legal rights of victims of medical and pharmaceutical malpractice
Attorneys receive National Honors
This advocacy has brought the firm some of the highest honors for ethical conduct and professional excellence including selection to the country’s leading peer review organization: The Best Lawyers in America, selected state Super Lawyers and the highest rating (“AVâ€) for ethical and professional conduct by Martindale-Hubbell.
Each of our three named partners, Howard Janet, Robert Jenner and Ken Suggs along with Dov Apfel, has been recognized by the publication Best Lawyers in America®. Additionally, Janet, Jenner, Suggs, along with partners Steve Offutt and Dov Apfel, have each been recognized regionally in Super Lawyers®. Ken Suggs was the Top Vote Getter for the South Carolina Super Lawyer.