Jay Surdukowski provides support across all practice areas to both business and litigation clients of the firm, including but not limited to the litigation of medical negligence claims, surety bond cases, and labor and employment matters.

Mr. Surdukowski is a New Hampshire native who attended Concord High School and the Advanced Studies Program at St. Paul’s School. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Political Science. He was named a Truman Scholar and a Humanity in Action Fellow, and received a Phillips Fellowship to Rwanda. He was elected student government president twice, and to the senior class presidency.

Mr. Surdukowski received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School. While in law school, he was Managing Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law and the recipient of the Scholarly Writing Award and the Jenny Runkles Award. He also served as President of the Law School Student Senate as well as the first Chair of the Law School Humanities Council. He received a Dean’s Fellowship and a Student Funded Fellowship to support his law school summers working in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in the Hague. While at the Tribunal he assisted with the trials of Slobodan Milosevic, Jovica Stanisic, and Naser Oric.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Surdukowski clerked for Senior Associate Justice Linda Stewart Dalianis of the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

Prior to law school, Mr. Surdukowski was a Truman Fellow at the United States Department of Health and Human Services in the Immediate Office of the Secretary –Intergovernmental Affairs, working on rural and Native American issues. In this capacity, he moderated the National Rural Development Partnership’s Rural Welfare Reform Task Force.

Mr. Surdukowski serves as a Trustee of the New Hampshire Supreme Court Society and the Friends Program, serves on the St. Paul’s School Advisory Committee on the Advanced Studies Program, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, as well as the Democratic State Committee. Mr. Surdukowski also serves on the New Hampshire Bar Association Legislation Committee and as the Governor’s citizen appointee to the Accountancy Act Commission.

Mr. Surdukowski has been active in several campaigns, most recently serving on the Steering and Finance Committees for United States Senator Jeanne Shaheen, in addition to co-chairing “Generation Jeanne,” the young professionals branch of the campaign.

Mr. Surdukowski has served as Co-Chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party Platform Committee and was selected as one of “New Hampshire’s 40 under Forty” in 2008 by the Union Leader.

Mr. Surdukowski’s has published legal pieces in the Michigan Journal of International Law, the Journal of Animal Law, New Hampshire Business Review, the New Hampshire Employment Law Letter, and the New Hampshire Bar Journal. His writings on law and genocide and animal law have recently been anthologized as chapters in two books.

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