Jared O'Connor

Jared has spent his legal career fighting insurance companies and moneyed interests on behalf of injured workers, the middle class, veterans, the disadvantaged and the disabled. After graduating from the University of New Hampshire, Jared worked as a chef, freelance journalist and media analyst before attending Boston College Law School in 2000. While earning his law degree, he interned for New Hampshire Legal Assistance and assisted in the landmark litigation of Hawkins v. Commissioner that secured for children in poverty the right to receive dental care from the State. He then worked with the New Hampshire Attorney General's Consumer Protection division before ultimately entering private practice in Nashua upon graduation.For nearly 13 years, Jared then worked for, and later became partner in, the Nashua law firm of Gawryl, MacAllister & O'Connor. He quickly built a reputation for vigorous and compassionate advocacy on behalf of his workers' compensation clients, protecting their rights, winning benefits and, when necessary, taking their cases to the New Hampshire Supreme Court to establish important victories that have changed the law for New Hampshire citizens. He has successfully secured Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, and private disability benefits for his clients while fighting for them at the Labor Department and beyond. For these efforts, he was recognized by SuperLawyers as a "Rising Star" in the field of workers' compensation in both 2012 and 2013. Jared has also taken the lead in lobbying efforts at the State Legislature to pass laws that will improve the rights of injured workers.Building off of his success in workers compensation appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Jared has also earned a substantial record of success as a civil appellate attorney in other areas of law. Jared has presented over 60 cases to the Supreme Court, and argued cases that have made it easier for injured workers to recover for their repetitive stress injuries, changed the way income is defined for child support calculations, and clarified the authority of courts to recognize interstate agreements to modify child support. Jared's incisive legal analysis, good humor, and tenacious but practical attitude toward cases has earned him professional accolades and the loyalty of his clients.