Anthony Sbarra, Jr.
- Hermes, Netburn, O'Connor & Spearing, P.C.
- 265 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110 - asbarra@hermesnetburn.com
- (617) 210-7755
- (617) 728-0052
- 2011
Anthony J. Sbarra, Jr.
Tony Sbarra is a Shareholder at Hermes, Netburn, O’Connor & Spearing, P.C. Mr. Sbarra concentrates his practice in civil litigation with an emphasis on products liability, automobile warranty law and toxic torts. He defends manufacturers of automobiles, light, medium and heavy trucks, construction equipment, farm/agricultural equipment and other products in products liability cases. He also defends toxic tort actions, particularly those involving asbestos. He has served as lead examining counsel in multiple lay and expert depositions throughout the country, been a member of asbestos trial teams for major motor vehicle manufacturers and conducted numerous direct and cross-examinations of epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, pathologists, naval historians and practitioners of occupational medicine, among others.
Mr. Sbarra began his litigation career at a midsized suburban firm where he focused his practice on the preparation and trial of cases involving personal injury and wrongful death, premises liability, products liability, construction, automobile liability, intellectual property and insurance related matters. He then became a Shareholder at a major Boston trial firm, defending products liability and toxic tort cases. He has tried to verdict more than 30 Superior Court and 60 District Court actions and arbitrated or mediated several hundred cases.
Mr. Sbarra has served on the faculty for continuing legal education programs sponsored by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Massachusetts Bar
Association, the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association and for the insurance industry. He is a volunteer judge for the Massachusetts Bar Association High School, Suffolk University Law School and Boston University Law School Mock Trial Tournaments and serves as a volunteer conciliator in the Brockton, Stoughton and Quincy District Courts.
Mr. Sbarra is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts and
Rhode Island. He has received the Preeminent AV rating from Martindale Hubbell and has been elected by his fellow trial lawyers as an Associate Member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is the President of the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association and is a member of its Board of Directors. He was also named a Super Lawyer by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston Magazine in 2011.
Tony and his wife and children were affiliated with the Chernobyl Children’s Project, having served as a host family for five years.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Mr. Sbarra graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. in Political Science in 1985. He earned his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1988, where he was on the Dean’s List and a regional semifinalist on the National Mock Trial Team.
BAR ADMISSIONS AND PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1988
United States District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1989
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 2005
United States District Court, District of Rhode Island, 2006
State of Connecticut, 2009 (pro hac vice)
State of Delaware, 2007 (pro hac vice)
American Bar Association
American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
Defense Counsel of Rhode Island
Defense Research Institute
Massachusetts Bar Association
Member: Civil Litigation Section and Trial Practice & Procedure/Court Rules Practice Group
Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association (MassDLA)
President: 2011
Board of Directors: 1999 – present
Rhode Island Bar Association