Bradley M. Henry
Firm
2 Best Lawyers awards
Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
Bradley M. Henry is a trial lawyer at SANTORO & GRAY, LLC focused on wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury and commercial property loss cases. In 2016, the US Supreme Court sustained a $63 million trial verdict (a judgment of $148.5M) that Henry won with a prior law partner, against a global pharmaceutical giant for devastating, life-long adverse drug reactions suffered by a child. See Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-johnson-johnson-idUSKCN0UX1VW; Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson, 471 Mass. 272 (2015), cert. denied, 136 S. Ct. 896 (2016) (https://masscases.com/cases/sjc/471/471mass272.html; https://lawyersusaonline.com/reprint). From 2018 through 2023, he served as Co-Liaison and Class Counsel for the plaintiffs in a record-breaking $143 million dollar settlement of the Merrimack Valley Gas Explosion disaster case against Columbia Gas and NiSource.
After his first year of law school, Henry joined a traditional civil law firm in 1989 and initially defended airlines, aircraft manufacturers and aviation interests in federal court, before transitioning to plaintiffs' practice. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel in Boston's “Big Dig” tunnel ceiling collapse case of DelValle v. Bechtel, a products- and construction-related wrongful death case that ultimately settled with 15 defendants for $28.1 million. Before that, Henry was the primary handling attorney of the college alcohol hazing death case of Krueger v. MIT from 1997 to 2001 as well as the commuter rail cardiac death case of Allen v. MBTA from 2002 to 2005. Henry’s practice has included plane crashes, mid-air collisions, complex product and weapons cases, refinery explosions, mass shooting tragedies, hazing deaths, building / bridge / tunnel and other construction collapses, MBTA, railroad and other transportation disasters, electrocutions and gas explosions as well as nursing home and pharmaceutical cases. Henry speaks regularly at seminars and conferences around the country on media, the law and handling high-profile cases. He has been voted to Best Lawyers in America each year since 2012 (and named "Lawyer of the Year" in 2019, 2021, 2024), has been named to Super Lawyers of New England and of Massachusetts each year since 2006 and has been a Boston Magazine's Top Lawyer each years since it first published in 2020. Henry speaks regularly at seminars and conferences around the country on media, the law and handling high-profile cases.
Firm
2 Best Lawyers awards
Overview
- Suffolk University, J.D., graduated 1991
- University of Vermont, BA, graduated 1986
- Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Suffolk University Law School - Dean's Cabinet, 2019-present
- American Bar Association - House of Delegates - YLD Delegate - 1995-98
- Federal Bar Association - Massachusetts Chapter - President - 2001-02
- Federal Bar Association - National Executive Committee - 2001-2002
- Massachusetts Bar Association - House of Delegates - Delegate - 2003-04
- National Eagle Scout Association - Life Member - 1982-present
- U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation - Cho Dan, 1998 – Present
- UVM Boulder Society (oldest senior men's honor society in the US) - Class of 1986
- YMCA of the North Shore - Ambassador's Council - Ambassador
- Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bar Association
- Suffolk University Law School - Dean's Cabinet, 2019-present
- American Bar Association - House of Delegates - YLD Delegate - 1995-98
- Federal Bar Association - Massachusetts Chapter - President - 2001-02
- Federal Bar Association - National Executive Committee - 2001-2002
- Massachusetts Bar Association - House of Delegates - Delegate - 2003-04
- National Eagle Scout Association - Life Member - 1982-present
- U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation - Cho Dan, 1998 – Present
- UVM Boulder Society (oldest senior men's honor society in the US) - Class of 1986
- YMCA of the North Shore - Ambassador's Council - Ambassador
- Suffolk University, J.D., graduated 1991
- University of Vermont, BA, graduated 1986
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus

- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Boston (2026)
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Boston (2024)
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, Boston (2022)
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs, Boston (2019)
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
- Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation
- Martindale-Hubbell - AV-Preeminent Rating, 2005 - present
- Highest Civil Settlements in Massachusetts (#1) for the Year, 2008
- Highest Verdicts in Massachusetts (#1) for the Year 2013
- New England Super Lawyers, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Boston Magazine's Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (Top 100), 2016 (Top 100), 2017, 2018
- Highest Verdicts in the United States - Top 50 in US (#27), 2013
- Highest Verdicts & Settlements in Massachusetts - Top 10, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016
News & Media
Case History
- Reckis v. Johnson & Johnson, et al. (2004 -present)
Outcome: $63 million jury verdict; $113 million judgment; prevailed on all issues in defendants' appeal to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; petition to US Supreme Court pending.
- Estate of James Allen, Ph.D v. MBTA & Amtrak (2003 - 2005)
Outcome: $4.9 million settlement that ultimately also led Amtrak and the MBTA to install defibrillators (AEDs) in all trains and stations system-wide
- Estate of Scott Krueger v. MIT and Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, et al. (1997-2002)
Outcome: $7.75 million in settlements together with a separate charitable foundation and ten year national fraternity hazing educational videos, seminars and programs
- Estate of Milena DelValle v. Bechtel, Parsons-Brinkerhoff, et al (2006-2009)
Outcome: $28.1 million in total settlements from 15 separately negotiated settlements over two years
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