Cronin & Maxwell

"Sean and his Paralegal Peggy are always available and responsive – they take a very personal interest in my and my son and the situation my whole family is enduring. The really go above and beyond what one might expect of their attorney.  I am very comfortable knowing that Sean does all that is possible to represent our best interests throughout the long and frustrating legal process.”--------------Ginger Laughon, mother of son beaten while in county jail, was clinically dead when admitted to hospital emergency, and is now in a semi- vegetative state

Attorneys & Staff

SEAN B. CRONIN     

Sean Cronin is admitted to The Florida Bar and The United States District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. Sean is board certified by the Florida Bar in Aviation Law. 

In his practice of the law, he focuses primarily on representing families who have been the victim of medical negligence, aviation accidents or product defects. He has successfully represented dozens of families injured by both civilian and military medical negligence. Civilian medical malpractices cases and outcomes of note include: McGarry v. Memorial Hospital Ormond, $7.165 million; Newman v. Memorial Hospital & Mynick, $4.5 million. Representative military medical negligence cases include: Foster v. The United States of America, $1 million; Lloyd v. The United States of America, $1.5 million; and Hines v. The United States, $875,000.  

In addition to the above cases, Sean has handled numerous claims of medical negligence against doctors and hospitals in the private sector, and against the Jacksonville Naval Air Station (NAS) Hospital. These cases have concluded in multi-million dollar confidential settlements. For more on Sean Cronin, click here.

GREGORY H. MAXWELL

Greg Maxwell is a member of the Florida Bar and is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, the United States Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Jacksonville Bar Association, the Jacksonville Federal Bar Association, and the Florida Justice Association.

Greg holds an AV-rating from Martindale Hubbell, the highest peer-review rating bestowed on attorneys by that leading organization. Over his career he has focused on representing both plaintiffs and defendants in civil trials. He has represented numerous corporate clients in literally thousands of asbestos personal injury cases.   For more on Greg Maxwell, click here.

 

BILLIE JO (“BJ”) TAYLOR -- ASSOCIATE

Billie Jo (“B.J.”) Taylor is admitted to The Florida Bar. 

B.J. has worked in the legal field for 18 years prior to becoming an attorney.   Her legal experience has ranged from working with attorneys who specialize in family law, juvenile dependency, commercial litigation and personal injury.   Born and raised in California, B.J. first moved to the Northeast Florida area 15 years ago when her husband Lee was stationed at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.  She began work in the legal field in her home state as a legal secretary and eventually gained enough experience and knowledge, along with a paralegal certificate, to provide services as a paralegal. She continued in that capacity until she started law school in 2005.

B.J. graduated, with honors, from the University of North Florida with a Bachelors of Arts in both Political Science and Sociology.  After graduation from UNF, B.J. continued her education locally at Florida Coastal School of Law. 

B.J. is active in the Jacksonville Women’s Lawyer Association, The Florida Justice Association and The American Bar Association.

B.J. was born in Tustin, California, is married, and has four children.

For more on BJ Taylor, click here.

 

PEGGY CAMPBELL, PARALEGAL

Peggy Campbell works with our firm’s clients to support and assist them throughout the life of their legal case. A paralegal with over ten years experience in civil trial law, Peggy has fulfilled that role in association with Sean Cronin and Greg Maxwell for the past five of those years. Her legal career, which spans nearly 25 years, began on Long Island, New York, where she was born and raised.

Peggy is a graduate of the special training offered by the Katherine Gibbs Business School in New York City, where she earned honors in what she describes as “two extremely intense years.” Her first position, just before embarking on a career in law, was as a Copy-Editor for Reader’s Digest Magazine. The attention to detail she gained in that job, coupled with her special training, has proved to be very beneficial in her current responsibility of assisting our firm’s attorneys to prepare the many legal documents related to clients’ cases.

Mid-point in her legal career, Peggy and her husband, Don Campbell, took a 10-year sabbatical to sail the seas on their 34’ sailboat. They ventured across the Atlantic and throughout Northern Europe during this sojourn, accumulating a wealth of fascinating experiences and extraordinary memories.

Back on dry land for the past decade, Peggy gets strong satisfaction from her work in civil trial law, especially in the opportunity to help make a solid difference in client’s lives –lives that have been harmed by the actions of others. Committed to her work, she is a member of the professional organization Northeast Florida Paralegal Association (NEFPA).

Peggy and her husband Don live in Jacksonville with their 28 lb Tabby cat that, appropriately enough, is named “Mooch.”
 

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