Our firm has a special interest
in spinal cord injury (SCI) & paralysis

David Oliveira has handled a variety of catastrophic injury cases over the years, including spinal cord injury (SCI).

His colleague Richard Galli has a unique personal connection to spinal cord injury, and a powerful reason to be interested in it.

In 1998, Richard's 17-year-old son Jeff broke his neck in a swimming pool accident and nearly drowned. Richard and his wife Toby pulled Jeff from the pool, administered CPR, and saved his life, only to learn that Jeff had become a completely paralyzed quadriplegic at the highest possible level, unable to feel or move anything below his neck, and unable to breathe without mechanical assistance.

Since that time, Richard and his wife have been intimately involved in Jeff's care-giving, his complex medical issues, and the unique problems -- both trivial and life-threatening -- that paralysis presents.

While in Atlanta helping Jeff begin rehabilitation at a spinal-specialty hospital, Richard drew on his experience and talent as a former newspaper journalist to begin writing Rescuing Jeffrey, a gripping memoir of the first ten days after the accident, and the decision whether to take Jeff off life support. The book was serialized in The Providence Journal; then published internationally in hard and soft cover; and was honored by New Mobility Magazine as one of the top ten books published on the subject of disability. The book has been used as a resource in high school and college classes, as well as medical schools.

A litigation lawyer for more than a third of a century, Richard has legal skills and real-life experience that make him a uniquely valuable asset in the preparation, settlement or trial of any case involving spinal cord injury or paralysis from any cause.

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