Daniel Goldsmith Ruggiero manages the Northeast
offices of Consumer Legal Services, P.C., focusing his practice
solely in the area of Consumer Protection law. He has extensive
experience in all phases of litigation, including national
coordination of cases, trial and appellate work.
Mr. Ruggiero
has represented a number of major U.S. corporations in actions
brought in both federal and state courts. The matters in which
he has been involved have concerned a wide variety of subjects,
including spinach e-coli outbreaks, benzene exposure, Vioxx,
welding fumes exposure, construction, asbestos exposure, lead
paint and many other types of claims.
Prior to
joining Consumer Legal Services, Mr. Ruggiero was an associate
in the Products Liability and Toxic Tort Practice Group of a
large national firm in New York and a boutique products
liability firm in Boston. While in law school, he clerked at
the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts,
Civil Division, and a nationally recognized complex torts and
products liability firm in Boston.
Mr. Ruggiero
received his Bachelor of Science from Babson College in
Wellesley, Massachusetts, magna cum laude, and earned his
Juris Doctor from New England School of Law in Boston. He was
president of the school’s Mock Trial/Moot Court Board, a
competitor on the national trial team, as well as a member of
the New England School of Law International Law Journal. He is
the recipient of a CALI Award of Excellent in New York
Practice.
Mr. Ruggiero is
currently admitted to practice before the State courts of
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Additionally, Mr. Ruggiero
is admitted to practice in the Federal courts of the District of
Massachusetts and the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of
New York.
