George Baxter is a New Jersey lawyer-author who gained national attention in winning the 1996 landmark case Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks, which exposed how blood-industry practices...view moreGeorge Baxter is a New Jersey lawyer-author who gained national attention in winning the 1996 landmark case Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks, which exposed how blood-industry practices allowed AIDS-contaminated blood to infect thousands of Americans during the 1980s.
The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington DC, honored Mr. Baxter as a trial lawyer and advocate when they nominated him from among America’s top trial lawyers for their Trial Lawyer of the Year Public Achievement Award, for protecting health care consumers in the case Snyder v. American Association of Blood Banks.
He has lectured before the New Jersey Bar Association and the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Education.
Today, the Snyder case is used by many tort professors in law schools throughout the country to teach principles of civil procedure, civil conspiracy, negligence, and evidence. Mr. Baxter is in private practice in New Jersey, and his office website is www.gbaxterlaw.com.view less