Associate

Boston, Massachusetts

Anthony R. Brighton graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1996, receiving highest honors and selection to the Order of the Coif. After briefly working in civil rights litigation in Iowa, Mr. Brighton spent nearly five years as a judicial clerk to Judge Anne L. Kilbane in the Ohio State Eighth District Court of Appeals, which covered the Cleveland metropolitan area. He then worked as a litigation associate with Martin, Magnuson between 2004 and 2011, when he moved to New York and practiced with Smith Sovik in Syracuse, New York, until 2025, specializing in written motion and appellate practice in a litigation firm defending, among other things, medical malpractice, premises liability, and construction accident litigation across upstate New York. He has since moved back to New England and has returned to Martin, Magnuson, where he is again specializing in motion and appellate practice in multiple areas of personal injury litigation defense. With nearly thirty years of experience in multiple jurisdictions, Mr. Brighton is highly skilled and capable of finding solutions to both procedural and substantive litigation problems. He is admitted to the State Bars of New York and Massachusetts.